Essay on Ethnic Music Appreciation

Although not a music student, but also say it-

I will start with the musical characteristics of the minority Xinjiang Uyghur, talking about the musical characteristics must be combined with the dance, because there is no dance music is imperfect, then there is no ethnic characteristics, and there is no ethnic style! The folk songs of Vi?t Nam are basically related to dance, and their rhythm is very simple, dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi dong chi. The rhythm... The rhythm is suitable for Xinjiang's folk dances, and songs like "In that faraway place" glorify the beautiful steppes of Xinjiang, which are typical of the steppe people. It's a typical grassland people. Their musical instruments are rich and simple, like the adirondack, the dongbulla, and so on. There are also wind instruments. The most important feature of Xinjiang folk songs is that they are very artistic, especially for dancing, which is a very good improvisation for dancing. The rhythm of the song is as fast as the flowing river. The characteristics of Xinjiang dance is also very obvious, is only beautiful, elegant, light, lively! This is also the style of Xinjiang's ethnic minorities! Their life in the prairie can be shown to us through the form of music and dance, it is clear that the prairie life is good, there will be so beautiful Xinjiang dance and so beautiful Xinjiang folk songs!

When it comes to Xinjiang, of course, we can't ignore the Mongolian people. They have a lot of similarities with the Uyghur style of Xinjiang, such as the prairie kind of boldness and exuberance! Although this, but there are different, such as the form of music is not the same, Mongolian musical instruments have a lot, and these instruments are more likely to express the mood of the steppe, Mongolia's horse-head qin expression of the meaning is not joyful, but quiet. In the vast prairie, the sound of the horse-head qin makes people listen to the bleak, listen to a kind of relaxed and tranquil. It should be said that the Mongolian people than the Xinjiang Uygur more close to the "prairie night", after all, the Mongolian people pay attention to a lot of rituals, so in the different forms of music will lead to a different dance. Dance form should say that the Xinjiang dance is unparalleled. Xinjiang dance steps are very flexible, and jumped also light and fast, and Mongolian dance slightly with the grassland or hometown of some close contact! To say that the hometown of the Mongolian style and family, hometown, mother related, I believe that Tengger's Mongolian you have heard. The song is about his beloved home, the prairie. His life's mischievousness has been entrusted to the sacred prairie where he grew up!

It can be said that the Uyghurs and Mongolians are very much alike, but also slightly different. It may be due to political factors, but this is not the concern, the real answer may be in those notes that have been honed through history, perhaps only the melody expressed by the notes is the real answer to why they are different!

After the northern songs, the southern songs have his charm, such as Yunnan, the music style is very Jiangnan elegance, very popular ethnic instruments hulusi has been a household name, Jay Chou & lt; chrysanthemum table & gt; the end of the section used it, you can say that his instrument with the impeccable. Yunnan's many ethnic minorities, Dai Bai and so on, in such a large ethnic convergence of the place, the dance is certainly popular, it must be cheerful, trendy, with connotation, although the style and the north of the Xinjiang dance difference is very large, and even the dance elements are very simple, the difference between the difference is that they are different from the dance is the rhythm, you can say that the rhythm of the dance of the South is very rich, and the rhythm of the North is very single, there is no The feeling of rhythm is just a jump, a very beautiful dance steps a coherent movement is completed. Different dance steps also mean different music, and the music of the ethnic minorities in the south is the so-called Jiangnan style. Just like the old Chinese style songs. The guzheng, the erhu, the pipa. They sound beautiful, some narrative, some lyrical, some sentimental. It's a little bit better in the field of music. With the Jiangnan color tunes contain the mood of the Chinese style songs after all can be accepted by the Chinese people!

In short, the national music style to collect the regional differences and different, which is their charm, because only in this way, the elements of music will be enriched, otherwise the connotation of the song will one day listen to the "tired" of the song's highest state I think it is still the diversification of musical elements. Because only in this way can we communicate with each other, the world will flow! Never static, always alive!