Cai Songqi's works include "Music Collection of the 20th Century", "Music Language of the 20th Century", and "Popular Music Harmony Techniques".

Cai Songqi, male, Han nationality, from Jiexi, Jieyang, was born in 1939 and is the former dean of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. He once served as a director of the Chinese Musicians Association, vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Musicians Association, and an evaluation expert for humanities and social science research projects of the Ministry of Education. He received the expert certificate for “outstanding contributions to higher education in my country” issued by the State Council and a special government allowance.

Cai Songqi has had a strong interest in music since he was a child. In 1957, he was admitted to the Department of Theory and Composition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied under professors Qu Wei, Qian Renkang, Li Yinghai, Shi Yongkang, and Chen Mingzhi. He has been teaching at Xinghai Conservatory of Music since he graduated in 1962. He has been working in the field of higher music education for more than 40 years. Teaching, writing books and doing knowledge have been throughout his life for most of his life.

Cai Songqi’s achievements

Cai Songqi has been engaged in the teaching and research of harmony and the translation of music documents for a long time. He has profound theoretical research knowledge in harmony and is the leader in this field in my country. Authoritative expert, known as the "King of Harmony". In 1996, after studying theories for many years, Cai Songqi turned to piano research, devoted himself to popularizing piano education, and got involved in the field of piano education for children.

Written and published the 500,000-word "Piano Encyclopedia". The national first-level publication "Piano Art" spoke highly of this illustrated piano encyclopedia with its title of "profound, profound and interesting". His papers include "The Multidimensionality of Harmonic Sounds", "Line Thinking and Line Structure of Modern Harmony", etc. His other major works include "Basic Rules of Musical Art Beauty", "Formal Beauty of Music - Golden Ratio", "Yin and Yang" "Softness and Music Style", "Piano Grading Tutorial", etc.