Appreciation of Tibetan Plateau

It is interesting to note that at the time of composing Tibetan Plateau, Zhang Qianyi had not yet traveled to Tibet. Accordingly, I asked a silly question, and the answer was, "Don't composers today often write about the music of the ancient times? Didn't Li Chunbo write Xiao Fang without ever having been a youth?" In fact, the Tibet in Zhang Qianyi's mind was the sacred heaven in his spiritual world, the purest sky and the broadest land in the world. He went to Tibet later because of the creation of Kong Fan Sen, and it was then that he felt why Tsetan Drolma's voice was so beautiful, because she was singing to the sky. Zhang Qianyi said: "Tibetan Plateau" came about by necessity and by chance. Once I was singing karaoke at a friend's house, and Li Na was there, and I accidentally realized that she sang "On the Golden Hills of Beijing" exceptionally well, which made my eyes light up. No one had heard her sing Tibetan songs before that. So I said to her: I'm going to write you a Tibetan song. Soon the cast and crew of "Heavenly Road" found me, and once I read the script, I was y moved and immediately followed. I immediately called Li Na and said: Here's your chance! When I wrote it and waited for Li Na to record it, the director and the band were dumbfounded. Another motivation for writing Tibetan Plateau was that I really wanted to write something a little bit off the beaten path. There is too much secularism in our real life, such as too many secular entanglements in human relationships, and people's spiritual world needs something secular and beautiful. The Qinghai-Tibet line is a road to the sky, and the sacrifices and dedication of several generations of soldiers on the Qinghai-Tibet line, just like that piece of land in Tibet, make people feel that the sky is pure and holy, and I am excited when I think about it. Han Lei said to me, "I listen to this song, like a bath."

The collaboration with Li Na began back in 1988. Li Na's fame is closely related to Zhang Qianyi's work. From a compositional point of view, Chang Chien-yi's work is actually very artistic, as he has studied orchestral composition and has had success in this area. It is not difficult for the attentive listener to realize that Zhang Qianyi's works make extensive use of orchestral accompaniment and little use of electroacoustics, with complete movements and rhythms full of lyricism or a strong sense of dance. Like "Tibetan Plateau", it has been included in the textbooks of the Conservatory of Music. And "Woman is a Tiger" is full of easy and lively dance rhythms.

Listening to Zhang Qianyi's songs, each one seems to be a small orchestral piece, very complete. "I'm very involved in every song I write. It took half a year to write 'Kong Fan Sen' and it was very hard. The hardest one was 'Ode to My Sister-in-Law'. I was confused when I read the words, where could there be such words: sister-in-law ....... These two words have never been used in the history of Chinese songs, but the director said they couldn't be changed. And 'sister-in-law' can not slide, I grabbed the big two degrees upward, but full of sister-in-law ...... "Ode to Sister-in-Law" opened the first popular song in the form of clear singing at the beginning. Recording everyone including Zhang Qianyi was thrilled to hear it.

Zhang Qianyi said that from the point of view of his creation, the current Chinese audience's artistic appreciation is greatly improved. Like "Tibetan Plateau" such art songs can be so popular really did not expect. In the Shenyang military region, from the general to the soldiers will sing, in the concert hall there are even played six times the record. In Chengdu Military Region, they say a good song is better than a political lesson. Zhang Qianyi thought about the reasons for this, that in fact this is the current trend of the world's music popularity, that is, regardless of region, ethnicity, subject matter, as long as it is good to listen to the elements coupled with the form of expression in line with the trend of the times, it can be quickly popular, any region of the ethnic listeners like. Ethnicity is strong, it is also strong extensibility, dig this thing to find the right form will be able to let other ethnic groups to accept.