"Youth Dance" is a folk song from Xinjiang.
"Youth Dance" is originally a short and concise song from Xinjiang. In 1939, Wang Luobin, the king of western Chinese singers, collected this Xinjiang folk song when he was sorting out western music, and later adapted it into a Chinese song, which was included in "Lift Your Hijab - Western Singer Wang Luobin and His Songs" "Hundred Songs in Praise of China 2".
When Wang Luobin collected this Xinjiang folk song in 1939, he made great changes in the lyrics. The original word "other that yoyo, other that yoyo" has ten syllables. "Other that" means "little bird" in Uyghur. The translation is "little bird yo, little bird yo", but there are only If the six syllables are filled directly into the music score according to the translated Chinese, it will not meet the requirements of the style and lose the flavor of the folk song.
Song Appreciation:
The adapted song has the characteristics of "fish biting its tail". The first eight words of three of the six lyrics are the same melody: " "It will still be the same tomorrow morning when the sun goes down", "It will still be the same next year after the flowers have withered", "My youth will still be the same as the bird"; the first and fourth sentences have the same melody, and the second sentence is the same except for the first part, only the tail is different. Since the first, second, and fourth sentences all have repeated content, the importance of the third sentence is highlighted: "The beautiful bird flew away without a trace." The audience can immediately feel that this sentence is the key point from the melody.
The arrangement of this tune is similar to the writing of Chinese classical poetry. In metrical poetry, there are two fixed rhyming patterns for quatrains. One is that all double sentences in the poem must rhyme, and the second is that the last word of the first, second, and fourth sentences must rhyme.
In other words, the first sentence can rhyme or not, but the third sentence cannot rhyme in any case. This is the experience summed up by the ancients after conducting exquisite research on the Chinese language. Only language written according to this rule can appear smooth and catchy. Otherwise, it’s always not quite right.