Music Appreciation of "Flowers and Children"
Northwest China has a long history and deep cultural heritage, and the art form of "Flowers" is one of the wonders of folk music. Prospecting the national minority music, almost all have been mined and excavated, from the original to modernization is today's national music towards internationalization of an inevitable trend. However, the flower music until today, has not stepped out of the threshold of the original ecology, as living in the western flower township, we always feel a little guilty. The following is I help you organize the "flowers and teenagers" music appreciation, only for reference, we come together to see!
Flowers are the words of the heart,
Do not sing is not allowed to home,
knife to bring the head cut down,
not dead or this singing.
This is a famous "flower child" circulating in Gansu. The "flower" is also known as "juvenile", also known as "wild song", is circulating in Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places back, on the Salar, Dongxiang, Bao'an and a kind of folk song in the Han Chinese. It is a very distinctive plateau folk song, it is simple in style, beautiful tunes, expresses strong feelings, bright and cheerful mood, with a strong atmosphere of the countryside, loved by the people of all ethnic groups. "Flowers" is the best form for people of all ethnic groups to express their feelings of happiness, sadness and joy. Whether it is the field to ask the labor of the brother, pulling weeds of the Kaifeng sister, for the life of the downtrodden to go to the countryside, run out of the mouth of the sufferers, thousands of miles of trekking foot brother, the yellow wood rafts rafts passenger, hunters, shepherds, craftsmen ...... are "flowers" and "young" creators. The young people are the creators and singers of "flower children" and "young people". They are in labor and life, often can not help but indulge in the sound of "roaming" up to express the heart's feelings of "youth", in the labor gap, look up and look out, the mountains stacked barriers, floating clouds winding, as if in a landscape picture. People let go of the bold throat, humming local songs, the sound of coarse, but I can not sing the true feelings, even though life is difficult, but get a thousand innate emotions, and not because of the repression of life and vortex extinction, which is the heart of the plateau people's song.
"Flowers" is a form of short song body, "Kaifaer although short meaning deep". It is not only the language is simple and condensed, deep meaning, and good at choosing accurate, vivid, image of the eye, expressing the complete content. "Flowers" of a *** with the same characteristics is to be able to sing, all by word of mouth, the language is common, fluent, fresh and clear, fast-paced and rich in musicality, sung catchy, pleasant to the ear, condensed like a jade-like integrity. In addition to bright colors, writing scenery, poetic, stirring up the imagination of the listener, own a kind of rhyme back to the taste. Gan, Qing, Ning due to its closed feudal society and live in the poor mountainous backcountry such a specific geographic environment, the people here have a hard endurance and simple and plain way of life, therefore, "flowers" tone of sadness, the sound of the high trembling, the form of simplicity, are from nomadic people's singing from, unlike other mountain songs, which are not as popular as other mountain songs. It is different from other mountain songs. Although the content of the song is also to sing love as the theme, but the blunt and heroic spirit, flowing in the tone between the words, fully expressed the bright and cheerful "Northwest spirit", and other places in the folk Europe is very different from the interest.
"Flowers" in the content of the "flowers" to talk about the bitter feelings of the "flowers", there is the expression of love "flowers", there is resistance to feudal marriage "flowers", there is propaganda for the "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers", "flowers". flower children" and "flower children" to publicize the revolution ......
The aspirations, ideals and pursuits of the working people of all races are fully expressed in the "flower children".
The content of the "flower child" of complaining of bitterness is mostly to expose the dark reality of growing class oppression and class exploitation, and to curse and attack the evils of the ruling class. The bitter flower child is a bitter song condensing the blood and tears of the poor people. It is like a mirror, truthfully reflecting the dark reality of the society at that time, telling the miserable life under the cruel exploitation of the ruling class.
The blood and sweat of the whole year,
not enough to pay the official grain;
called three "Huda" cry God.
The first time I saw this was when I was a kid, and it was the first time I saw a kid, and it was the first time I saw a kid.
There are many other bitter flowers like this, the song contains the poor people migrating through the years of suffering still not enough to pay the official food tax and the sadness of the anger of the sky and the earth, and pouring out of the official court's bitter hatred and strong curses, expressing the people's strong feelings of defiance.
"Flowers" name, from a thousand love, living in the Northwest plateau of young men and women, often use folk songs as a means of conveying their love to each other.
In the song, the male pro it called the female as "flowers", the female called the male as "teenager".
Thus, the term for lovers became the name of this folk song. Love "flowers" is to love life as the content, but love as the content of people's lives, but also with other social life is closely related, it is a social life of the window said, through this window to show the various aspects of society, therefore, love "flowers" Reflecting the life of the face and expression of thought and feeling is much richer, much broader, including the praise of beautiful youth, expressing passionate love, and the pursuit of freedom of marriage against feudalism and class oppression and many other content.
The "flower" called "youth", which is clear and unmistakable point of love "flower" expressed a content, that is, the praise of beautiful youth, which is love! This is the early stage of love, the love of each other's youth, appearance and character of the praise, as a way to express the feelings of adoration in the heart.
"The song is an expression of the heart". "Flowers are compared to the words of the heart and the key to happiness, combining praise with an implicit desire for love.
In the old days, working people were forced to leave their homes to make a living, as footmen, paper customers and other hard labor abound, which resulted in the separation of husband and wife or lovers. So the expression of the pain of longing and feelings of parting "flowers" is like rain mushrooms emerge in large quantities. For example:
Half-round pots and pans to cook buns,
Blue smoke to the Zhuangzi cover,
Holding the noodle hand to send brother,
Clear tears to the throat washed.
The parting of lovers or husband and wife is the moment that most stirs up people's true feelings, "clear tears to wash their throats", the pain of parting is expressed to the fullest extent, and certain social factors are reflected in the helplessness of the emotions.
In the old society, the marriage of young men and women, due to the "parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker" constraints, often can not get what they want, love can not be combined, combined with the often disproportionate, which has staged a scene of love tragedy. The "Flower Child" "Jiao Jiao Female" is based on a sad love story circulating in the folklore, which is told by a blind fortune-teller. Love story, by a blind fortune-teller into a "flower child", widely sung in folklore.
Jiaojiao female is a local famous beauty, married couple love, respect each other as guests. But this was her mother-in-law dissatisfaction. This year, it was his family's turn for military service, and her husband was drafted into the army. Husband on the occasion of the parting, his beloved wife can not rest assured, parting politely asked his mother to be treated well Jiaojiao female. The mother promised that her husband would be able to leave with his wife, and he did so in tears.
After her husband left, her mother-in-law thought that the time had come to abuse Jiaojiao female, ordered her to herd sheep and feed pigs every day, treating her as a subordinate, a little less than satisfactory, with a whip, Jiaojiao female bruises all over the body, the pain is unbearable. Jiaojiao female can not stand this kind of humiliation, abuse, want to go back to her mother's home to escape for a while, but her mother-in-law found a lot of things for her to do, to delay, do not let her return to her mother's home. The mother-in-law sang:
"I will not ask you to go until the three dukes and three liters of ley seeds are yellow."
So the pretty girl had to plough, sow, fertilize, hoe, and harvest alone in the sprawling fields with tears in her eyes, singing forlornly:
"Brother Moon, give me light to come ah! The magpies, give me companionship to come ah!"
At last the rapeseed was harvested, and only then did the mother-in-law show mercy and allow the pretty girl to return to her mother's house.
However, the mother-in-law ordered Jiao Jiao to:
"Wear a ragged coat, a rotten felt hat, and Tibetan leather boots, and drive back to her mother's house with an old dog pulling a broken cart."
Jiaojiao woman from her mother's home back, but her mother-in-law intensified the abuse of her, Jiaojiao woman can not stand her mother-in-law's tea poison, in the barren mountains of hard labor, hanged themselves in the woods. That night, the moon was as bright as a picture, so the shadow of Jiao Jiao Nui is still reflected on the Brahmaputra tree under the light of the moon. This mournful legend is widely circulated in the folklore.
Mention of modern "flowers", people will recall "in that faraway place" the folk song that everyone knows, but do not know the story behind this folk song:
Known as "the father of the Northwest Folk Song" national musician Wang Luobin, graduated from the Beijing Normal University Music Department. It was there that Wang Luobin first came into contact with the most primitive mountain songs of the Northwest. The woman who sings the songs, "Flower", has a beautiful nickname, called "five plums".
When Wang Luobin heard such an order, he was "five plums" conquered by the wonderful "flowers" conquered, and from then on he entered the rich and colorful world of folk music, a lifetime away from the Northwest, never returned to Beijing.
In 1941, director Zheng Junli went to Qinghai to shoot a movie and invited Wang Luobin to participate in the performance. Their group came to the shores of Qinghai Lake.
Zheng Junli identified Zhuo Ma, the daughter of the head of a thousand households, to play the role of the shepherdess in the play.
Wang Luobin puts on a Tibetan robe and follows Zhuo Ma as she drives the sheep. Wang Luobin lived the life of a real shepherd in the movie world for three days.
Zhuo Ma is a Tibetan girl, like a flower in the mountains, with two big oval eyes, lined with thick braids, and a colorful Tibetan robe with gold trim, wrapped around her fit body.
The director arranged for Wang Luobin and Zhuo Ma to ride on the same horse, Wang Luobin was initially very cautious, sitting behind Zhuo Ma, two hands gripping the saddle, Zhuo Ma but suddenly ran wildly, the main Luobin instinctively held Zhuo Ma's waist. They ran wild on the grassland for a long time, before tightening the reins, tramping on the grassland ......
Dusk pastoral return, Zhuo Ma will gently point the flock into the fence, Wang Luobin obsessively looking at the evening sunlight dyed the whole body of Zhuo Ma. Drolma turned back and looked at him with a blushing face. Zhuo Ma eyes flashing sparks, raised the hands of the pastoral whip, gently hit in the body of Wang Luobin, and then returned to go.
Wang Luobin stood at the fence, staring at the Zhuo Ma disappeared in the night, caressing the place where Zhuo Ma played. This beautiful and spirited Tibetan girl left him a whip that will never be forgotten.
Late at night, Wang Luobin wandered outside the tent of Zhuo Ma's father, and the felt window fell down, separating the daughter of the head of that thousand households and this Chinese musician in two worlds.
Early the next morning, the movie team left Qinghai Lake, and Zhuo Ma and her father rode their horses, sending off ride after ride until they stopped on a hillside.
Wang Luobin rode on the camel, could not stop looking back, with the hump ups and downs, the camel bells clanging, Wang Luobin's heart of emotion, turned into a song, sang out:
In that faraway place
There is a good girl
People walked past her tent
Have to look back fondly
I would like to be a lamb
I would like to be a little sheep
I would like to be a little sheep
I would like to be a little sheep, but I don't know how to do it. >
Stumbling beside her
May she take her whip every day
And keep gently striking me
In the 1950s, Robertson, the world-famous singer, made this song his stock-in-trade. Sang all over the world.
Wang Luobin's name and his masterpiece "in that faraway place" together into tens of thousands of households, he lifelong emotionally committed to the Great Northwest, "flowers" is his soul.
China's vast territory, due to the historical development of the various ethnic groups around the world, the social state, the natural environment, customs and language are different, which makes the folk songs show different colors and moods. There is no art in the world with more local colors and moods than folk songs.
"One side of the water raises one side of the people", open the folk songs of various places, the rich atmosphere of life and the flavor of the countryside came to the surface. The authors are like a weaving good embroidery skilled craftsmen, from the life of the color line, the use of folk songs of various genres, the region's magnificent natural scenery, simple folk customs and life with a variety of characters, stories cleverly screwed together, embroidered a woman both vivid and touching, but also interesting and witty gold plaque. Each gold tablet shows a different style of mood and color. This is the artistic appeal of folk songs, its natural scenery and human flavor has a special charm of beauty, at once introduced people into the life it describes, so that we seem to work with the author, a full view of the scenery, can not help but be afraid of the heart, ears and eyes for the new.
The book is an aesthetic pleasure that inspires the love of life and the pursuit of beauty.
This is where the charm of folk songs lies.
Content Expansion:
The Qinghai folk song Flower and Youth incorporates the melody of the Northwest Chinese folk song Flower.
"Flowers and Boys" is a love song
The Qinghai folk song "Flowers and Boys" incorporates the melody of the northwestern Chinese folk song "Hua'er", which is mainly circulated in Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, etc.
"Flowers and Boys" is a love song.
"Flowers" is a kind of folk song originated in Qinghai, widely circulated in China's northwest Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, and other four provinces (regions), with its melodious and melodious tunes, simple and refreshing lyrics, and free and honest expression of the song, which is called "the soul of the Northwest". As a widely circulated ethnic music with northwest characteristics, it has long been favored by musicians.
Close to Life and Reality
Because musicals are close to life and social reality, and have aesthetic characteristics of the common people, they have a different standard in the performance techniques and vocal methods of the characters' singing than Western operas and even Chinese operas. Western opera has formed a set of scientific and systematic singing method for a long time, according to the different roles of the characters in the play, the singing also produces different voices such as tenor, soprano, baritone, mezzo-soprano, baritone, alto, and so on, and there are also heroic tenor, dramatic tenor, florid tenor, lyrical tenor and so on in the tenor in a more refined way. Chinese opera is even more breathtaking artistic wonders, in its singing style and western opera has the same strict and meticulous division, raw, Dan, net, end, ugly have singing requirements. But this kind of programmed, formulaic singing method, if put in the musical theater seems to be far away from the life of some. What kind of singing style does a musical require? In my opinion, it should be scientific, life, character and personality singing. This is easier said than done. Listen to the characters singing in the musicals Notre Dame de Paris, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Les Misérables, and you'll realize that their voice images are so close to the character roles they play. Just by listening to their voices, you will have a sense of the characters they play and their personalities and hearts, and even from the state of their singing, you will be able to feel the background of the character's life, destiny, and the environment that the character was in at that time. Therefore, singing close to the characters is singing close to life. Singing close to life is singing that meets the aesthetic standards of the general audience. It can be seen that, in line with the theater stage character role of the voice in the musical how important, which is also the popular singing in the people's masses in a wide range of reasons.
"Flowers and Youth" is talking about the people and things of the people themselves, and its singing style should be based on science, popularity, popularity, nature and life. The sound image of each character's role should meet the requirements of that character's state of life, characterization, and survival environment in the play. For example, the male protagonist of the play, Said - a stallion from the grassland, a sunny and handsome young man of the security tribe, kind, brave, smart and wise, then his voice should be translucent and high-pitched, full of passion, with a sense of tension and relaxation. And the heroine Meiduo - Meiduo the name flipped into Chinese is the meaning of flowers. Meiduo is a gorgeous red peony in Seld's heart, beautiful, straightforward, brave, persistent, her voice should be full of both charming and wild qualities, delicate, soft and almost confiding when expressing her inner feelings, and free-spirited and calling towards the faraway places when bursting out with passion to portray the image of a western girl. As for the strong and brave grassland harrier eagle gahu, his voice should be natural and thick, and the beautiful and small Salar girl Ma Lotus, her voice should be clear and bright and clean and simple, the positioning of the voice floating, straight favor folk song type popular singer. Of course, the dignified Tibetan head man Meiduo's father, voice modeling belongs to the middle and low voice area, should be a baritone or bass. The father of Gahu is a local governor, we position his voice as a tenor, but it seems to be a bit insufficient in the middle, so although the voice is high, but a bit of emptiness, the bite is slightly some flavor of the play. In order to maintain his position and dignity, his voice was styled as high pitched and mid-range, sometimes with broken vocals. In the chorus of the performance, the chorus that first acted as a man as a scene is with American vocal skills, based on natural, living, unified voice, and according to the plot and mood to form a different singing style, and achieved very good results.
The successful performance of "Flowers and Children" coincided with the fact that the Northwest Flowers had been declared by Gansu as a world cultural heritage protection project, which was a great joy for us. We as native art workers, as a child by the flower music music inculcation of music workers, the Northwest flower music heritage and carry forward, is our duty-bound responsibility. Northwest has long been in the original flower music, if you can go out of Gansu through the musical "flowers and teenagers" this platform, to the world, then not only to our musical creation provides valuable experience, but also will allow more people in the world to appreciate the wonderful music of our nation.
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