賴德和,現今仍活躍於台灣音樂界且具代表性作曲家之一,他深受史惟亮與許常惠的影響,並堅信創作需根基於斯土斯民,才能面對未來,他要求自我,堅持要為這塊土地創作音樂。 本論文主要探討賴德和對傳統文化的堅持與重視、透過不同時期的音樂作品去探究他如何將個人的美學觀具體呈現在作品當中,以及經由音樂作品分析探討其兼容傳統文化思維和西方現代作曲技法的表現。文章內容依序為賴德和的音樂生涯整理,民族主義傳承與重要師承影響、傳統文化觀、創作理念、現代音樂觀,最後是選擇《眾妙》(1975)、《年節組曲》(1979)、《鄉音Ⅰ-北管戲曲的聯想》(1995)、《鄉音Ⅱ-南管戲曲的聯想》(1997)和《楚漢》(2001)等作品,探討其音樂創作中運用與鄉土傳統文化相關的素材和兼具中西融合的現代創作技法等表現。
Deh-Ho Lai, one of the most representatine and impressive composer in Taiwan. As deeply influenced by Wei-Liang Shih and Tsang-Houei Hsu, he further believes that composition is laid on the foundation of homeland and its people to face the upcoming challenges. Deh-Ho Lai insists to create a sound of Taiwan. This thesis aims to, first of all, discuss his emphasis and insistence on traditional cultures via the different periods of Lai’s musical pieces. Besides, it presents how Lai represents his own aesthetics views in his works of music in a concrete way. Last but not least, this thesis, by means of analyzing his works of music, further does a research into Lai’s ability to integrate his traditional cultural/musical background knowledge with the modern composing skills. The thesis contains, step by step, the biography of Lai’s life as a musician, his Nationalistic upbringing and education, a chronological list of Lai’s works, his ideals of creation/composition, his viewpoints of modern music; finally, this thesis will take for examples his Chung Miao (1975), The Lunar New Year Festival Suite (1979), Dialect I - Association of Pei-Kuan (1995 ), DialectⅡ - Association of Nan-Kuan (1997), The War of Chu and Han (2001), to show how Lai makes good use of elements of traditional Taiwanese cultures and how he masters incorporating Western and Oriental modern composing skills into his creation/composition.