Ping’s opera art in Guangdong in the traditions and the present

To study the concept of «organic music» Tan Dung, the following taskswere solved: the factors influencing the formation of his work; A generalanalysis of creativity and a suite «Memories of eight watercolor paintings»was performed; defined styles of creativity; the essence of organic music isexplained and the origin of sources of non-typical sounds for musical art issystematized; The experimental and innovative approaches of composer inwork on musical works are summed up. A set of methods has been used toachieve the goal and to solve the set tasks: analytical - in the study ofscientific literature; axiological - that allows to reveal value orientations forthe development of own stylistics; systematization - for determining thetechniques of avant-garde music; musicology - for the analysis of thecomposer's suite in the aspect of the essence of «organic music». The exampleof the piano suite «Memories of the eight watercolor paintings» identified thestyle features of Tan Dung's creativity, the most typical of which is the mixingof musical traditions of the editors, multimedia and theatrical-ritual imagery.The essence of organic music and the origin of non-typical sources of sound,which appeared in the use of natural materials, was clarified. The desire forexperimentation and innovation was manifested in the subtle feeling andimitation of the sounds of nature («music of water», «paper music», «musicstones»); in combination of theatrical imagery and timbre of orchestral(national and European) musical instruments; in capturing the color of soundeffects; in a combination of traditional national and western avant-garde; inthe individuality of the approach to the use of pointillism. The practical valueof the study is the possibility of using its materials in further research on theproblem of «organic music». Originality - in the lead in the study of thisspecific phenomenon.