Folk ditty is a folk song and dance popular in towns and cities, with a balanced structure, rhythmic regularity, delicate tunes, and so on. Today, to introduce is about its musical characteristics, to see what kind of characteristics of its features, with other theater differences are not too different.
In all kinds of folk songs, the ditty is a kind of basically get rid of the practical function of the constraints, become independent of the performance function of the music genre. Its musical characteristics are:
1, the tune of the minor key has a smooth, soft, winding, delicate artistic characteristics. It is rich in melodic changes, often the gradual progression of tone patterns and jump into the tone patterns, one-way up, down with the arc, wave-like melody line and other means of expression flexible, skillfully combined together, resulting in a kind of ups and downs, diverse and unified tunes.
At the same time, in the singing artist's long-term practice and processing, the melody of the decorative tenacity, music sinks, phrases between the articulation of natural, logical, very good at expressing those who have both narrative and strong lyrical content (such as the "five brother goat herding", "painting the fan," "the whore sadness of the autumn", "the five birds" and so on). Most of the ditties are sung with instrumental accompaniment, and add the prelude, the door, the end, etc., to make it more complete.
2, minor keys are not subject to the influence of external factors, according to the internal requirements of the melody itself, the pursuit of harmonization of words and songs of the balance and flexibility of the means of expression. Therefore, the beat of the minor key is regular but not constrained, and the sense of rhythm is distinct but not tenacious. It is often in neither the destruction of the rhyme of the lyrics, but also subject to the premise of metronomic regularity, the flexible use of a variety of rhythmic patterns, so that it is sparse and dense ﹑ changes in a coherent manner, rich in a very stubborn sense of power.
3, the structure of the minor key is mostly based on a single body, pay attention to the structure of the internal regularity and proportionality. The structural function of the phrase is clearer, basically divided into the corresponding type and the start, bearing, turn, and the type of two categories. The non-parallel structure of 3 or 5 single phrases is also more common. In some areas, there are also a number of single songs composed of "suites" (folk called "major key"). Regardless of the length of the minor key, the structure of the body of the minor key to the principle of correspondence and succession, forming a neat and balanced relationship, the last sentence often has a summary of the weight, the sense of stability is more tenacious.
4, different, but the liner notes, liner notes are repeated as is, becoming a powerful means of strengthening the unity of the work.