I. Dance and music
The close relationship between dance and music is fundamentally that dance cannot be separated from music, dance is always shown in the accompaniment of music. Dance and music **** survival, there is no dance without music accompaniment. The primitive dance also has the beat or singing accompanied by the percussion. In the Book of Music - The Book of Musical Images, it is said, "Poetry, to speak its will, song, to sing its voice, and dance to move its face; all three are native to the heart, and then the musical instruments follow from it." In the Han Dynasty, "Preface to Mao Poetry" also speaks of this truth: "in the heart for the will, speaking for the poem; feelings moved in the middle and shaped in the words, the words are not enough, so the contempt; contempt is not enough, so the chants; chants and songs of the lack of, I do not know the hands of the dance of the feet of the feet of the also." There is even such a saying in the dance world: "Music is the soul of dance, dance is the echo of music." The famous Soviet choreographer and dance theorist Zakharov also said, "Music - this is the soul of dance. Music contains and determines the structure, character and temperament of the dance."
Chinese dancer Wu Xiaobang has verified this in both theory and practice. He argues that "any dance in its artistic image must pass through music in order to bring out its 'meaning' in its entirety." He also openly declared that he had "gained the image of dance" from the March of the Volunteers, and he also pointed out that "an unaccompanied dance, although it has no sound, has a kind of rhythmic movement from the soundlessness, which makes people feel that the soundlessness is better than the sound." ''Although some dancers have endeavored to create works without musical accompaniment in order to emphasize the independence of the art of dance. However, they still replace musical accompaniment by walking and kicking, and by using footbells and handbells to make rhythmic sounds in response to the movements of the body. In a broad sense, this rhythmic sound is the basic factor of music. China's dancers such as Wang Manli choreographed the performance of Zhang Zhixin martyrdom in the prison struggle of life dance "silent song", is a musical accompaniment of the dance works, but it uses the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, the sound of the shackles, the sound of whipping and other acoustics to accompany, in fact, this sound itself belongs to the broader sense of the music, because it has a rhythm, has rhythm, has a pitch, has a timbre. In a nutshell, dance and music cannot be separated.
Second, the combination of dance and music
First of all, dance and music between the existence of **** the same point is the rhythm, which is the natural basis for their combination. Both dance and music have rhythm, and dance needs music more than anything else to reinforce the sense of rhythm. The fundamental reason why primitive dance was combined with music in the first place is rhythm. In a deeper sense, man's rhythmic movements naturally require music to match them, and thus all kinds of rhythmic collective labor through the ages have had labor horns. Dance as a kind of emotional impulse of free rhythmic movement expression, naturally more need to cooperate with music. Of course, it is not any music that can be combined with dance, but music with a more distinctive rhythm. Music has been combined with other arts, such as theater, film, poetry, etc., but the easiest and most necessary combination is dance, also because they have the same rhythm.
Secondly, the ****similarity between dance and music is lyrical. Dance and music are both direct expression of feelings, and the expression of music is abstract, it will not overlap, contradict or interfere with the concrete expression of the dance, but can be seamlessly combined with the dance.
Once again, both dance and music are displayed in the course of time. This allows them to be synchronized and combined.
Three, the role of music on dance
(a) with and help the dance in the whole process to express the mood, reflect the character, set the atmosphere
Dance needs music to inspire and strengthen. Without music, dance is difficult to fully express feelings. Music is characterized by direct penetration into the human heart, and appreciators often experience the feelings expressed in music as their own inner feelings. Dancers certainly have a deeper feeling and understanding of the music that is part of the piece they are performing. This feeling and understanding further stimulates the inner feelings, which are expressed through the outer physical movements. The outstanding dancer Ulanova said in "Confessions of a Dancer" that when she played Maria in "Bakhchisaray's Fountain", she took understanding of music as a "starting point". She also said that good music is an "indication to oneself of the expression and meaning of the dance movements". Music enhances the emotional color of the dance, helps to understand the content of the dance, and makes the dance seem more vivid and attractive. Music can directly move the audience's feelings, which is the same as between the dance and the audience to add a bond of feelings, so that the audience and the dance closer.
(2) help to organize the dance movement
Dance creation should be carried out against the music. Because dance and music have *** with the same rhythm, rhyme and emotional content, and is synchronized display, the two must be highly coordinated. Dance works are not designed into the action after, and then with music, but in the action design before there must be music. There are two ways to adopt dance music, one is to utilize ready-made music, and the other is to create music for the theme and plot of the established dance. "Choreographing to music" is a common practice in dance. Zakharov says, "The composer writes the music for the dance theater, ...... and the choreographer is thrilled by the music and creates a dance work - a dance theater - on the basis of the music." " Of course, dance is not just subservient to music. First of all, dance has to be selective about the music, because not any music is suitable for dance. Secondly, if the music is created exclusively for the specific dance work under conception, it is subject to the requirements set forth by the choreographer, who, in addition, may ask for changes to the music in the course of the choreographic process.
Mr. Wu Zuqiang in the "dance music structure and other" article has said: "the task of dance and music is *** with the effort to create a clear, persuasive image to show the content of the attempt to show, from the general point of view, the most important feature of the dance music should be to try to help the dance image of the shaping and establishment of the dance image to enrich the image of the dance to strengthen the contagious effect of the dance image. Strengthen the infectious power of the dance image." For example, the music of the folk dance "Stone - Woman", with its rich Fujian local color, spontaneous and pure tonal characteristics, portrays the typical character of Hui'an woman's diligence, simplicity and endurance of insults and humiliation, which is evocative of the past.
(3) In dance and dance drama, it is responsible for explaining and presenting the plot
As in the first section of the dance drama "A Great Wind", the music simulates the effect of turbulent wind with electric sound, which changes from small to large and from far to near, bringing the audience into the atmosphere of the story to be told. In the third section of the dance, "Symbol", the dance reaches its climax with a shouting oboe, strong drums and cymbals, and short, powerful strings. At the end the music is accompanied by a gust of wind whistling and blowing, as if to blow this moving story farther and farther away, so that more people will be moved by it. The artistic charm is reflected here in the blending of dance and music.
The combination of dance and music forms the complete art of dance. Dance movements and gestures expressed in the world's most beautiful, most moving movements and gestures, and the organization of the most beautiful, most beautiful sound that is the combination of musical art, will give people a wonderful artistic enjoyment, and thus produce a social role, which is a "match made in heaven".