The Curved Moon is a song composed by Li Haiying. It was composed in 1989 and sung by Liu Huan. It is an episode of the MTV movie Love on the Earth included in the solo album Mongolian Serenade released by Liu Huan 1992. 1990, this song became the first in Guangdong pop music charts, and won the quarterly champion and the annual champion in succession. In the same year, this song won the annual 10 Golden Melody Award in Beijing Pop List.
In 2008, Li Haiying and Liu Huan won the Golden Melody Award to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the reform and opening up by the China Musicians Association. The original intention of this song is to describe a beautiful Pearl River Delta. Li Haiying said that it was the emotional memory in his heart that made him write this song first. He imagined the dim moonlight and filled in the lyrics.
Song appreciation
The Curved Moon is the representative work of China's popular songs. Through this song, Li Haiying successfully grafted classical and ethnic elements with pop music. The curved moon brings people poetic artistic conception: night sky, moon, boat, running water and small bridge. These images immerse people in the quiet and beautiful artistic conception of nature, with pictures in words and words in paintings.
The song is a three-stage structure of Aba, and paragraph A is a narrative paragraph. Deepen the impression through repetition and change. This melody consists of five basic sounds: Gong, Shang, Jiao, Ba and Yu. The melody is catchy, refreshing and quite ethnic. There is a connecting part between paragraph A and paragraph B, and Li Haiying uses a two-part backup singer to connect the two main paragraphs, which makes the song complete, smooth and coherent, which is also the unique feature of the song.
Section B is the climax of the song, and the emotion of the song is pushed to the climax through the connecting part. Images such as "today's village, past songs, sadness and melancholy" appear in the lyrics, which is in sharp contrast with the quiet and harmonious artistic conception in paragraph A, and this paragraph seems to be shouting and reflecting.