"Graduation Song" and "the Song of the Builders of New Roads" by Сomposer Nie Er as an Example of Cinema Music in the First Chinese Films
The paper is dedicated to the two most noticeable compositions of the talented Chinese composer Nie Er in the sphere of film music. The paper carries out a structural and harmonious analysis of the songs, cites some phrases of the poetic text in order to reveal its contents and provides for music examples. Nie Er was one of the first national composers who masterfully combined Chinese pentatonism and traditional European major and minor keys in his art.