Introduction: Spring scenery in Jiangnan
Demonstration department:
-Main part: A+B+A trilogy
A love theme +B grass bridge sworn +A theme reappearance.
-Connecting part: Free Cai Hua
-Vice: Rondo A+B+A+C+A.
Three years of classmates, * * * reading * * playing.
-Ending Department: Farewell to Changting
Exhibition department: Britain and Taiwan are against marriage, and meet on the balcony to mourn for the grave.
Reproductive line: (omit the secondary line) both become butterflies.
At the beginning of the music, on the background of soft string vibrato, the flute blows out beautiful and moving colorful melodies like birds' songs, showing a scene of beautiful spring, birds and flowers, and then the oboe plays a lyric theme with a soft tone. The whole introduction is a picture of peach blossoms, red willows and green flowers blooming by the grass bridge under a sunny day.
Next, accompanied by the harp, the violin played a simple and beautiful "love theme". This piece of music plays an important role in the whole work. How many people are intoxicated by this melody. The author took great pains in choosing this topic. He, one of the founders, was an actor of Hangzhou Yue Opera Troupe. He is familiar with and loves Yue Opera music. When he wrote "butterfly lovers", the story spread all over Zhejiang, and Yue Opera is a representative opera in Zhejiang. He is determined to draw material from Yue Opera music. According to the usual observation, many famous actors of Yue Opera, no matter what repertoire they perform, will win warm applause from the audience as long as they sing a aria. The author takes this aria as the basic tone of "Love Theme" in Butterfly Lovers. This theme is the keynote of the whole song. The solo violin begins with a soft and simple A string, and plays a poetic love theme with charm in a clear high-pitched area. After a repetition on the rich G string, the music is fine-tuned to A, and the cello and solo violin form an answer (middle section) in a unique tone. After playing the theme of love, the band fully demonstrated Liang Zhu's sincere and pure friendship and mutual affection.
After the free-color connecting passage of the solo violin, the music enters the auxiliary part. This theme is adapted from Yue Opera, with violin solo (including repeated variations). This sub-theme is in sharp contrast to the soft and lyrical theme. The music turned into a lively and cheerful Rondo, and the melody was relaxed and lively. The solo violin imitates the guzheng, and the harp and strings imitate the pipa. The author skillfully absorbs the playing skills of China national musical instruments and enriches the expressive force of the symphony. Solos and bands appear alternately, describing the life scenes of Liang Zhu's students when they are studying. Legend has it that Zhu Yingtai disguised herself as a man to go to school. On the way, she met Liang Shanbo, and they hit it off and became brothers. The theme of this song is to show the scene of Liang Zhu's students studying and playing for three years. After this allegro, the music turns to Adagio, which is the end of the theme in minor. The lyrical and slow tone is intermittent, showing Zhu Yingtai's wordless and embarrassing feelings. The answer between "Liang" and "Zhu" on the background of string vibrato, faint harmony and orchestration, will be separated from classmates for three years under the background of string vibrato, and the music shows the attachment of the 18th farewell party and the Changting. Legend has it that when they left, Zhu Yingtai pretended that there was a sister at home who was willing to marry Liang Shanbo and invited him to visit. And the low voice at the end of this part indicates that something ominous is about to happen. Suddenly, the gruesome gong, timpani and frightened violin brought us to this tragic struggle. Music enters the development department, and this melody consists of three parts, namely, anti-marriage, balcony meeting and mourning for the grave.
In the original book, Zhu Yingtai's father forced Zhu Yingtai to marry Ma Wencai, a bureaucratic groom, while Zhu Yingtai refused to marry. In the music, brass music played the cruel theme of feudal forces with severe rhythm and gloomy tone. Then the solo violin used the rhythm of the national drama "Sanban", which showed the anxiety and pain of Yingtai. The band played a rebellious theme with a strong and full performance, which set off the violent syncopation and chords of the lead violin. They constantly appear in different tonality, and finally reach the climax of the struggle-a strong anti-marriage scene, reaching the climax of contradictions and conflicts.
At this time, the music suddenly stopped and turned to adagio-Loutai Club. Legend has it that at this time, I came to visit Zhu's family and learned that it was a woman's pain, so they met on the balcony and told each other what they wanted. At this time, the cello and violin began to "question and answer". This melody is lingering and makes people cry; The answer between violin and cello is timely, which shows Liang Zhu's mutual affection. The touching melody of Loutaihui is based on Bai Niangniang's Memories of Broken Bridge in Yue Opera Legend of White Snake and Zhu Yingtai's crying in Yue Opera butterfly lovers. The original song "Memories of Broken Bridge" was written by Renzhong He, a famous late pianist in Zhejiang Province, and Zhu Yingtai Kuqiang was the characteristic singing method of Zhang Yin, a late senior actor in Zhejiang Province. The whole piece of music was rearranged to create the image of Liang Zhu's confession to each other.
Next, the music took a sharp turn and turned to the paragraph "Mourning the grave". The music adopts the technique of tight-pulling and slow-singing in China's traditional drama, which expresses Zhu Yingtai's sadness to the fullest. Legend has it that Liang Shanbo died shortly after returning to China. Zhu Yingtai was very sad when she learned that she had decided to choose a path. She and her father agreed to wear plain clothes and sit in a sedan chair to pay homage to Liang Shanbo's grave, and his father agreed. On that day, Zhu Yingtai came to the grave, cried to the sky, then struck the stone tablet and committed suicide. In this melody, the fast syncopation rhythm of strings is passionate and decisive, and the soloist's scattered board and the allegro played by the band appear alternately. The banjo was added here, which changed the techniques of Peking Opera and Yue Opera, and profoundly showed the scene that Yingtai accused feudal ethics with blood and tears in front of the grave. Here, the violin draws lessons from the performance techniques of national musical instruments, and uses more expressions of China traditional operas in harmony, orchestration and the whole process, which deeply depicts the image and sadness of Yingtai. She has been crying, heartbroken, sometimes whispering, tears streaming down her face. When the music developed to change the beat (from two beats to three beats), Yingtai sent a final complaint to heaven with her young life. Then gongs and drums roared, and Yingtai rushed to the grave, and the music reached its climax. The earth-shattering music of Weeping the Grave mainly adopts the challenge of Yue Opera and the unique "Fan Er" accent of Shao Opera. The original Yue Opera "Crazy Tune" wailed and expressed its grief, and the band brass music played a slightly modified and enthusiastic high-pitched Yue Opera "Fan Er". The unique finger-sliding technique of erhu strings in China first appeared in violin performance, which made Liang Zhu have a shocking artistic effect in expressing grief and grief. There are China Yue Opera, Peking Opera, and so on, which entered the concerto for the first time, making Liang Zhu have distinctive China characteristics from content to expression.
Finally, the reproductive department. Music has the music material of introduction, which is no longer the beauty of the world. With its wonderful and colorful melody and the progressive sliding of the harp, the flute has brought people to the realm of immortals. It reproduces the scene of the legendary "become a butterfly"-when Zhu Yingtai hit the stone tablet, the tomb cracked, and after Zhu Yingtai plunged into it, a pair of butterflies flew out of the tomb. We heard the familiar "love theme" again. On the background of silent strings, both the first violin and the solo violin are silenced, recreating an unforgettable love theme. Then, the colored piano gently played a five-tone undulating sound pattern in the high-pitched area, and it was transposed many times, as if Liang Zhu danced in the sky and sang their faithful love ... The final become a butterfly was based on the flute solo in Kunqu Opera become a butterfly in Liang Zhu and the broken bridge in Yue Opera Legend of the White Snake, which was arranged by teacher He Zhong and added with tears. The beautiful music of butterflies dancing is extracted from the Kunqu Opera "Garden of Dreams" performed by Su Kun Troupe. Kunqu opera in Shang mode and Yue opera music in Zheng mode are connected by means of "grafting flowers", which makes their styles get a new unity.