Why is there a palanquin tune in "The Hundred Birds"?
Why is the sedan chair used in The Birds of Prey? I'll bring you the detailed answer below.
Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix is a movie that many of my friends have already seen, which is a story about the intangible cultural heritage of suona in our culture. Among the music of suona, "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is the most sacred and solemn, and not everyone is qualified to listen to this piece of music. In this movie, the Suona King played "One Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix" for us, and those who listen very carefully may find a problem, that is, there is the tune of "Carrying a Sedan Chair" in the tune of "One Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix", so why is it? Next we will come together to understand it.
The fact is that the creators of "Carrying a Sedan Chair" borrowed the tune from the folk music "Birds of a Feather". Carrying the sedan chair is a kind of traditional folk music, based on the action, walking and movement state of carrying the sedan chair and the music is widely popular in Chinese folk, is one of the traditional Chinese classical music, the expression of suona playing. Due to its long history, the author of the music has been unable to be verified.
"Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" was originally called "Ten Kinds of Scenery", and it is the most representative of many suona tunes, interpreting the expressive power of suona to an extreme. The music of "Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix" has the sound of warblers singing and dancing, and the fragrance of birds and flowers, which is a vibrant scene of nature. You can hear the yearning and pursuit of a free and beautiful life, as well as feel the lively and rough atmosphere of life.
Since "The Hundred Birds" was brought to the stage, it has been processed and adapted many times. The original "Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix", which was circulated in the folklore, has a loose musical structure, no ***, and when improvising, the rooster crows at dawn, the hen lays eggs, and even the cry of a child is added at will.
In the 1970s, on the basis of Ren Tongxiang's performance, an introduction was designed to present the mood of a hundred birds singing together, to strengthen the musicality, and to expand the colorful phrases, using rapid double spatula playing techniques, to make the piece more complete.