Hero's Hymn is a Mandarin pop song with lyrics by Gong Mu, music composed by Liu Chih, and sung by Zhang Yingzhe on the album Symbol of Memory, released on May 1, 2005 .
The song is an interlude of the movie Hero's Children, released in 1964. Hymn to the Heroes was written by Liu Ch'iu during a trip to Inner Mongolia in 1940, where he stayed at the home of a folk singer named Wang Yuefeng, drinking and singing every night and memorizing the score. The tune of "Hero's Hymn" was modeled on an Inner Mongolian folk song "Batel Tautohu", which was picked up during that year's gathering, and was developed and completed.
The basic musical material of the main song part comes from the folk song "Batel Tautohu" of Uttarakhand flag of Yimeng province of Inner Mongolia and the cello piece "Scenery at Dusk", the lyrics of the song are condensed and magnificent, magnificent and passionate, which is a flag to inspire people to carry forward the spirit of heroism.
Songwriting:
All songs are a combination of lyrics and sheet music as an art form and a form of expression. The lyrics correspond to each other. Songs are generally created in three ways: one is the first after the rhetoric according to compose music, a song is made specifically for the word, only for the word used; the second is the first song after the word, according to the sound of the words, the third is through the existing song or word re-write the lyrics belong to an alternative cover. And the singing method is a solo, many people sing, many people multi-part repetition, duet, joint singing, lead, sing or chorus.
With the progress of the times, music is an essential part of people's lives. Songs can bring people spiritual encouragement and upliftment, but also the sublimation of the soul, bringing people into another music world.