Han folk music is divided into five parts: folk songs, folk song and dance music, rap music, opera music and folk instrumental music.
Han folk songs are widely distributed. Due to the differences in natural environment and dialects, their styles are colorful and their categories are generally stereotyped. From the musical characteristics, it can be summarized into three categories: chant, folk song and minor.
Artistic features of Han folk songs;
First, the high combination of poetry and music
From the perspective of poetry, folk songs are close to people's lives, with distinctive themes, vivid images and sincere feelings. Folk lyrics are short and easy to understand, belonging to ballad style; General sentence patterns are neat, rhyming and even; Seven sentences are the most common, as are other sentence patterns, with two sentences and four sentences being the most common in structure. Folk song writers use metaphors, metaphors, comparisons, exaggerations, narratives and other techniques in just a few lyrics, so that the theme ideas are clearly and prominently reflected. ?
Second, he is good at expressing people's inner world
Folk songs express profound thoughts and feelings with short structure, concise musical language and extremely economical musical materials. Suiyuan folk song "Horse Racing on the Frontier" profoundly expresses the homesickness of wanderers. "Going West" expresses the sadness and attachment between relatives who have left their hometown, and where you will go.
Three, oral, collective, improvisation and variability.
Folk songs are the crystallization of collective wisdom of the masses. From generation to generation, different singers in different periods (or times) and different regions often improvise lyrics based on a ready-made folk song and sing whatever they want, which is improvisation in folk song creation and singing. At the same time of improvisation, the tunes of folk songs will inevitably change to varying degrees, so a folk song has many variations, such as Meng Jiangnv, coloratura, cutting indigo flowers, etc., which are all over the country, and there are also several typical tunes and characteristic tones of a certain area.
The above contents refer to:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Han Folk Songs