Lu J. Conceptospheres of Chinese program piano music of 20th - beginning of 21st centuries

The dissertation is devoted to the leading tendencies in Chinese program piano music which are concentrated in leading concept spheres. Ones suffi-ciently influence the artistic world view of contemporary artists; they determine both the subject and the interpretation of figurative and symbolic verbal explanations of content piano compositions. The concept of research develops from general points as reasoning the chosen categories of "concept sphere" and "concept" regarding the piano music with exact verbal program, elucidating the common and distinct features between concept spheres of European and Chinese philosophical and esthetical traditions, in order, to describe "other" semantic details in program explanations of a musical composition.