Yueyang ancient painting drama originated from Linxiang ancient painting drama and was popular in Yueyang, Miluo, Linxiang, Tongcheng, Chongyang and other places in Hubei. Jiaqing's "Baling County Records" in Qing Dynasty recorded the prosperity of flower drum drama in rural areas around Baling.
As far as music is concerned, the main vocal cavity of Yueyang Opera's ancient painting cavity is called "Qin cavity". The tunes of "Qinqiang Opera" include [monosyllabic sentence] (positive tone), [sandwiched sentence], [dreamy tone], [negative tone], [sad tone] and [one-character tone]. Other folk songs, such as Sifu Tune, Acacia Tune, Noisy Wugeng, Ten Embroideries, Huimen Tune, Ten Cups of Wine, and Plum Blossom Introduction, are also commonly used in it. Obviously, "Qin Opera" was influenced by China's tunes. Many operas of Yueyang Huagu Opera are based on "Qin Opera", so when it spread to Tongcheng, Chongyang and other places in southern Hubei, it was deeply loved by local people because of its homology in music and similar language, and gradually formed a new local opera called "Violin Opera".
The main repertoires include Four Clothes, Mending the Back, The Story of Lin Lou, Double Stealing Flowers, Double Selling Wine, Cowherd and Weaving Girl, etc.
Whether it's "Shaanxi Opera" or "Sichuan Tune", Heizi is accompanied by drums and other strings, and his pronunciation is gloomy and simple.
And Changsha are both called "Gong Opera". "Gong cavity" is also called "Gong cavity", that is, when singing, it is accompanied by gongs and drums, regardless of strings and voices. Before liberation, Jingzhou ancient painting drama was accompanied by gongs and drums, and the voices helped each other. Wenchang's accompaniment was only added in the 1950s. On the basis of local gongs and drums such as [Mupi tune], [Troy tune], [Ciqi tune], [Liu Si tune] and [Batong brand], the ancient painting dramas in Yueyang and Changsha absorbed some banqiang music from urchins, forming a combined structure of [guide board], [third-rate], [emergency board] and [scattered board].
Yueyang ancient painting opera and Changsha ancient painting opera also have a third tune, called "minor", which is local folk music with strong local flavor. For example, folk songs such as "Tea Picking Tune", "Looking at Mother Tune", "Inverted Tune", "Four Seasons Green", "Lotus Picking Boat Tune" and "Vegetable Washing Heart". However, some classical gongs and drums in the Han Dynasty were also used as music to cut the field, such as "Wan Nianhuan", "A Flower", "Moth", "Victory Order", "Liu" and "Beside the Dresser".
Yueyang ancient painting drama and Changsha ancient painting drama have become independent dramas. The earliest performance was "Erxiao" with few plots, that is, the "Sanxiao" song and dance drama, which was ugly all its life, mostly used local minor, and later influenced by dramas such as Han Opera, it performed plays with strong plots and more characters.
Because of the low drama level of minor, they absorbed the Han tunes which are adjacent to it and similar in language and pronunciation, and formed the later "Qin tunes" or "Sichuan tunes" and some "Gong tunes". And in the process of long-term stage performance, local music has been integrated, and the melody characteristics are relatively fixed. The ancient painting opera house called it "the right tune". The formation of "orthodox tune" makes up for the deficiency of minor and the combination of music and cards, which makes the ancient painting opera have the musical conditions for performing this drama.