美国音乐的先驱人物——乔治·格什文

The Precursor of the American Music——George Gershwin

乔治.格什文是美国音乐史上的杰出代表,他一生创作了数百首流行歌曲、歌剧、电影音乐、钢琴曲和管弦乐,其中大量吸收了黑人灵歌、布鲁斯、拉格泰姆及爵士乐等的音乐元素;他通过自身的感悟,把严肃音乐和流行音乐有机地结合在一起。乔治.格什文的作品成就与音乐风格具有鲜明的民族特色,充分地演绎了美利坚的民族精神,使其成为音乐领域中的民族文化象征。他的创作思想和经验,对当今如何发展我国的民族音乐具有一定的启发和借鉴意义。

George Gershwin is an outstanding representative in American music history. He has composed hundreds of music works in his short but great life, such as pop music, operas, film music, piano music and orchestral music, among which various music elements are absorbed into them soul, blues, apothem＇s blog, jazz, etc. He organically combines serious music with pop music through his own sentiments and apperceptions. George Gershwin＇s accomplishments and music styles have an unequivocal national character. All of his works fully express America＇s national spirits, which make them become the national cultural symbol in the music field. His thoughts of creation as well as his experiences can give us some enlightenments and references on how to develop our folk music nowadays.