With the development of society and the improvement of quality education, there are more and more exchange performances and competitions of children's dance, and some good children's dances come out one after another. However, the lack of children's dance music has become a major problem in front of children's dance choreographers. Except for some choreographers who have the conditions to create music specifically for children's dance, most of the choreographers are facing the problem of finding children's dance music. So, how to choose children's dance music? What kind of music is suitable for children's dance? In my opinion, the selection of children's dance music should be carried out from the following aspects:
One, the rhythm is clear: children's cognitive ability is limited, the ability to control the self is also weak, robbing or dragging the beat of the situation is very common. This directly affects the neatness of the dance movements. In order to avoid such a situation, it is necessary to choose a clear rhythm of the music. Because children to do the movement of the fast and slow urgency needs to be clearly highlighted point, beat, and a variety of strong and heavy sound to remind. If the rhythmic beat is fuzzy, the sense of rhythm is not strong, children do not have enough ability to distinguish, can not recognize the strong and weak beat, but also their own heart to count the beat, then it is bound to make the performance process distraction, in the group dance is very easy to appear "group of demons dancing" phenomenon. This is why children are so interested in drumming, disco and other styles of music. The music has a strong rhythm, which is easy for children to grasp, so they can let go and dance to their hearts' content.
Second, the melody is easy to remember: children's dance is a children's show, its music melody should be easy for children to remember. This dance music on the one hand, the child actor can remember the music can strengthen the understanding of the music, so that better performance of the dance; on the other hand, it also allows children to deepen the audience's impression of the dance, easy to dance works of circulation. The melody that is easy to memorize has the following characteristics: (1) The melody is good. This kind of music firstly gives people the impression of beauty, so that children are willing to hum it, and then they may memorize it. (2) Short phrases. Individual phrases are short so that children can listen to the music twice to distinguish the rise and fall of phrases in the dance music, so that they can understand the ups and downs of the music, from which they can understand the dance music and understand the dance. (3) The intervals do not jump much. In order for children to memorize music, the first thing is for them to learn to hum the melody. However, children's voices are young, and the range of notes they can sing is limited (generally no more than ten degrees), which also requires that the maximum jump in melodic intervals should not be beyond the ten degree range of the child's reach.
Three, orchestration is simple: now some choreographers to the school children's dance music into such a misunderstanding, like to choose with a lot of decorative sound effects of the music. For example, in the original melody based on the addition of many small bells, a variety of small drums, a variety of birdsong, wind and rain and other natural sound effects, and even in the middle of a song sung by a person with the voice of the children's shouts ...... and so on. Who thought that this will make the music elements more rich, more rich in children's interest. In fact, not, too much decoration will only cover the connotation of the music itself. Because children's nature will make them more interested in a variety of small decorative sound effects, and thus only focus on listening to those sound effects and do not pay attention to the main position should be the melody of the music itself. Too many small decorative sound effects will also confuse the original rhythm of the music and give people an impression of disorder in their hearing. On the other hand, some choreographers now choose the modern style of music as the school children's dance music, although it is said to increase the children's horizons have a certain benefit, but the modern style of music complex rhythm, orchestration techniques trendy, there are many weak, instrumental confrontation is not easy for children to understand and grasp the use of. In this way, it looks like a very emotional contrast, very varied, in fact, is to add to the snake. In the reality of children's dance creation process, the more simple music orchestration can give the choreographer more, a greater range of imagination, because the choreographer does not have to spend effort to figure out how to use those decorative sounds or with, so that there is no constraints to create out of children's dance is often the most simple, close to children's lives, highlighting the culture of the school, the most rich in children's interest.
Four, emotional accuracy: children's understanding of things is intuitive, perceptual, they can only distinguish the very obvious music mood. At present, there are many soft "background music" on the domestic music market, such as the "Mystery Garden" series, Bendrix creation series. Choreographers also like to use this music as the music for school children's dance. However, these "background music" has already been positioned at the time of creation, is oriented to the hotel, the market and other public **** occasions, in order to create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere for the purpose of music. Therefore, it does not carry any figurative emotional color. When used as dance music, it can express melancholy, can express ethereal, can also express the joy that does not flow from the appearance of ...... and so on. But for children, even with the choreographer's explanation, they cannot fully realize and express the emotional needs of the music. Because they do not have such a life and emotional experience, so they need to have obvious emotional music to stimulate their emotional imagination, and then use more exaggerated dance movements to complete the emotional performance. Therefore, the choice of music for the school children's dance, cheerful, enthusiastic, nervous, sad ...... whatever the emotion should be in the music has a clear and full embodiment, so that the children can be cognized, understood, performance.
Fifth, there is a sense of the times: our children are living in today's era of children, by today's era of various cultural influences, their thinking, demeanor, speech are also y imprinted with the brand of the times. When choosing music for children's dance, we should also pay attention to the sense of the times. Because the music of today's times is the closest to children's school life, the most reflective of today's children's style, but also the easiest for today's children to perform. Nowadays, most of the music in the society is new computer music or orchestral or folk music with good recording quality, which is highly audible and comprehensible. If we use the old electronic synthesizer music from ten years ago, it will only make the children feel distant, not knowing how to appreciate and understand it, and they will not enjoy the beauty of the music and become bored with the music, which will further lead to the rejection of dance. The same applies to children's dance in ethnic and classical styles. We can now find the national instrumental solo music, basically have been newly added to the computer music or orchestral accompaniment, national orchestral ensemble also have a new recording of various versions. Only children's dance music with the characteristics of the times can be accepted by the children of today's times, and only then will it be easy for the dance to circulate in today's times.
Sixth, the unity of style: because most of the children's dance music is from different ways to choose music after editing and synthesis, the music before and after the style of consistency has become a problem that we must consider. It is in the adult dance music, after editing before and after the big difference in style is also relatively common, but no one has ever raised objections, naturally, in the children's dance music has not attached great importance to these issues. However, it is this "small problem" that concerns the integrity of the dance work. For example, do different instruments (Western orchestral music, Chinese folk music) sound good together? Different orchestration accompaniment (traditional orchestration method, modern orchestration method, rock music, original music) together whether it is feasible? Is it possible to get used to different regional characteristics (Northeast rice-planting song, Jiangnan ditty, Guangdong music, etc.)? What would it be like to mix different ethnic music (Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, etc.) together? ...... All these will become technical problems in the creation of children's dance. If not handled well, in addition to the auditory people give the dance disjointed, disorganized bad impression, the inconsistency of these music styles; thus affecting the whole dance dance style inconsistency. Then the children perform, its expressive power will be greatly weakened. At the same time, for children's aesthetic education, the cultivation of reason also has a certain negative impact.
Seven, pay attention to ethnicity: In addition to the above points, it is worth mentioning that there are children's dance music in the ethnic orientation of the problem. China is composed of fifty-six nationalities *** with the big family, each nationality has its own unique music, musical instruments and so on. At present, there is a situation where, for example, a children's Dai dance is to be choreographed, but as long as there is music played by hulusi, it will be used to choreograph it, regardless of whether it is an ethnic melody or a popular song. This will make children mistakenly think that the Dai music is so, confuse the concept of national music on the growth of children's understanding of the bad consequences, when the foreign exchange will also make the brother nation resentment.