"Raining Bananas" is a representative piece of Cantonese music, depicting the sound of rain beating on bananas in the early summer, which is very interesting to the south, and the sheet music was first published in 1921. The score was first published in 1921. The overall melody of the piece is smooth and bright, interspersed with staccato and short breaks that resemble raindrops, reflecting the fresh, smooth and lively style of Cantonese music.
The plantain is a plant of the south, and although it is not comparable to the Four Gentlemen of Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum in Chinese literature and aesthetics, it has become a representative of the beauty of Chinese gardens and landscapes, with its form of "high and comfortable overhanging shade, different shows and extended vision", and it is rich in emotional connotations.
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The material of the piece is a variation of the "Eight Boards". By slowing down and adding flowers and other variations, and using rhythmic staccato, continuous contrast and the short fragmentation of the melodic phrases, so that the image is vivid, beautiful and moving music.
At the beginning of the piece, the smooth and bright melody shows people's joy. Then the phrases are short, rhythmic staccato, and than the arrangement of the phrases to each other, the music is now a short break in the sound, as if the rain hit the banana, pattering, swaying, reflecting the fresh, smooth and lively style of Cantonese music.
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