Many ethnic groups in China are good at singing and dancing, and the Buyi is one of them. In the Buyei culture, Buyei folk songs represent the formation of Buyei culture, which has a long history dating back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and which sprang up along with the formation of the Buyei people, so it can be seen that its value is how high.
Buyei culture and art is rich and colorful. Folk songs are particularly distinctive, with ancient songs, narrative songs, love songs, wine songs and labor songs, etc.; the forms of solo, duet, chorus and re-singing; and the tunes of "major" and "minor". Whenever a festival is celebrated, the songs are sung day and night.
Buyei people like to sing, folk songs around the tune is not the same, the same area of the folk songs, but also due to the content of the lyrics, singing occasions and singing different ways and have different tunes. Showing a hundred flowers bloom, each with its own characteristics.
Types of folk songs
The major key
The structure of the upper and lower phrases, the rhythm is calm, the speed is soothing, and the melody is mostly graded, and it is often used to sing with glissandos, boas and trills. The popular "Youal" and "Ma Paul" in Wangmu also belong to the category of major key.
Minor key
Basically, it is a phrase that is repeated many times. Often sung in the lowest note, as a step (or wave) up to the highest note; the melody is relatively free, often with the lyrics and mood changes and flow; the end of the falsetto and vibrato. The mood is cheerful and full of humor.
Penpipe Song
Sung with the accompaniment of the penpipe (a cross-bowed single-reed bamboo wind instrument), hence the name. Mostly sung in Chinese, it has a 4-phrase musical structure with prelude, interlude and finale, and is in the levistic mode. The tune is smooth and beautiful, and sometimes the accompanist uses variation to form a polyphonic relationship with the song.
The Layu Tune
The Layu is a woodwind instrument with double reeds, and its tone is euphemistic and affectionate, with the implication of longing for love, which is often used by young people to express their longing for love. Later, it was filled with simple lyrics, mainly using "Le, Li, Oh, O" and other onomatopoeic words to imitate the tone of Le You, thus forming a vocal genre with instrumental music, Le You tune that is named after it.
Mei tune
Sol, la, do, re, composed of four tones, simple feelings, the use of syncopated rhythms is very characteristic.
Four-stringed Hu Love Song
Popular in Luodian County, accompanied by four-stringed Huqin. The tune is basically a variation of a phrase repeated, palace style, delicate feelings, euphemistic.
Long Whistle Song
Long Whistle, also known as "catch the table", "sitting table", is a social activity of the Buyi young men and women to talk about love, Long Whistle Song is a love song sung on such occasions. The tunes are closer to the Han Chinese folk songs.