From the origin and development of dance, dance is the source of music
According to history, human beings have not yet produced a language, will use the action to express their emotions and thoughts, will use the image of the action to convey and communicate some kind of information, therefore, the dance has become a way to teach them to labor and production, exercise and fight! Therefore, dance has become an important and indispensable means of life for them to teach labor and production, to practice fighting skills, to exercise their bodies, and even to look for their spouses. The aesthetician Plato thought: "When human beings are not very developed in language expression, dance is a kind of art of speaking with gestures." So, by inference, the creation of dance should be a little earlier than the creation of music. Because there are people walking upright, in order to facilitate the completion of the most elementary human communication, there is the basic conditions for the emergence of dance, so the hand dance can be regarded as the earliest symbol of human culture and art, which should also be "the impulse to dance almost at the same time with human beings," this scientific argument primitive dance in primitive societies, the initial is the Borrow the human body action beat, now the folk dance is also common to this kind of relic, such as the Spanish tap dance on the ground with sound, the Russian dance in the action of the hand beat boots, as for the stomping, clapping is more common. To date, people in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, Lantern Festival, but also to jump "beat chest dance" men bare shoulders and bare feet, head tied to the grass rope, hand beat chest, armpits, knees and thighs, squatting and jumping, extremely enthusiastic, fast-paced, dance rough, an extremely ancient dance in front of the people, primitive people dance, there have been a number of things that can respond to the festival of the ringing of things tied to the body, to accompany the music. This also has a legacy to be found, such as the South American Indians, dancing the traditional dance, or feet tied to a kind of pods can be shaken, or holding a coconut made of rattles (now made into a symphony orchestra in the use of the sand ball). Yugoslavia's folk "dumb dance", is also the use of wearing on the hands and feet of the ornaments shaking for the coordination of the dance, and the Indian dance tied to the foot bells beat, can be said to be the height of this primitive way of development it. Primitive dance later had a real accompaniment, that is, rhythmically knocking stone, wood to dance. China's ancient books say "hit the stone pat stone, the rate of all beasts dance" ("Shangshu - Yao Dian"), the image reproduces the hit, pat the stone, resulting in varying rhythms for the proposed animal dance accompaniment scenario. This kind of primitive music has only rhythm but no melody. American modern aesthetician Susan Lange in the book "art problems" has this passage: "outstanding music historian and choreographer Kurt Sahas written by the World Dance History, said: today's people are very puzzled by the fact that: as a kind of high-level art of dance, in the prehistoric period has been developed. In the early days of civilization it reached a level of perfection unmatched by any other art or science. In that period, when people lived in barbarous groups, when sculpture and architecture were primitive, when poetry did not exist, the art of dance was created, which surprised all anthropologists by its difficulty and perfection! The music they created during this period would have sounded like nothing if it had been separated from this dance, and it was only with this dance that this music appeared to be beautiful." From this it is clear that music was created from the beat given to the dance, and that the dance is the source of music.
Second, from the point of view of music and historical development, music has become the soul of the dance
With the deduction of time and the development of the dance business, music in the colorful dance accompaniment from monotonous to rich, and ultimately get rid of the subordinate position and independent development. With it can set the atmosphere of the dance, the dancer can produce more feelings about the dance with the stimulation of music. So when the music is highly developed, it comes back to carry the dance, so that the dance tends to be more lyrical, abstract. For example, the dance "Celestial Pavilion", which was selected as "classic dance works of the 20th century", shows a pair of young men and women sending off their loved ones at the pavilion, a love duo dance of lingering and sentimental feelings, reflecting the love of "two loves if it is a long time, and is it not in the morning and the evening". Theme thought. The music for this dance was chosen from the erhu concerto "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" by the folk musician Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing), the whole piece expresses Ah Bing's inner monologue under the social background conditions at that time, which is an indictment of "although the moonlight is bright, the world is dark; although the spring water is sweet, the world is bitter; although the water surface is flat, the world is not flat". The song is full of a melancholy, resentful mood and the temperament of a great man who would rather bend than bend [3]. After enjoying the dance, we feel that you will be infected by the storyline of the intertwined scenes of sincere love and parting of the characters portrayed by the "husband and wife" (dancers) on the stage to the accompaniment of Ah Bing's famous erhu concerto, "Reflections of the Moon in Two Springs". The reason why the music of "Two Fountains Reflecting the Moon" can become a synthesized part of the dance work is that its vitality lies in the fact that the music image penetrates into the dance image, so that the dance image and the music image are skillfully fused. Contemporary choreographer Wu Xiaobang believes that "any dance in terms of artistic image must pass through music in order to bring out its 'meaning' in its entirety." He openly declared that he had gotten his dance image from the March of the Volunteers. He also pointed out:-"In the case of an unaccompanied dance, since there is no sound, yet he has a rhythmic movement from the soundlessness, which will give the impression that the soundlessness is better than the sound[4]." This profoundly points out the lip-smacking relationship between dance and music. Although in time dance should precede the creation of music, the fact that the two actually complement and mirror each other makes them an inseparable whole. For example, some dancers, in order to emphasize the independence of the art of dance, devote themselves to creating works that do not use musical accompaniment, but still use walking tap, through the foot bells and hand bells to make rhythmic sound with the movement of the body, to replace musical accompaniment. In a broad sense, this rhythmic sound is the basic factor of music. China's dancers, such as Wang Manli, choreographed and directed the performance of Zhang Zhixin martyrs in prison struggle life dance "Silent Song" [5 ], is a dance work without musical accompaniment, but it uses the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, the sound of the shackles, the sound of whipping and other acoustics to accompaniment, in fact, the sound itself belongs to a broader sense of music, because it has a rhythm, rhythmic, pitch, timbre. It can be seen that, with the development of time, dance and music can no longer be separated, and music has become the indispensable soul of dance. Of course, dance is not just obedient to music. First of all, the dance has to choose the music, because not any music is suitable for the dance. Secondly, if the music is created for a specific dance work in the conception, it is subject to the requirements of the choreographer. In addition, the choreographer may request that the music be modified during the choreographic process.
Three, from the point of view of the specific artistic practice, dance and music is the trend of mutual combination
Dance and music have rhythm, which is the natural basis for their combination. The reason why the primitive dance has been combined with music from the very beginning lies in the rhythm. Rhythm is the basic element of dance art, dance is the art of human movement, but not all the movements of life can become dance movements, only those who have been refined, processed into a regular, rhythmic movements, to constitute dance movements, in order to have the expression of the ideological content of the work of the special artistic function. Because the formation of rhythm is based on human will and feelings, so the dance of the human body movement of the ups and downs, movement lines of smooth twists and turns, etc., in order to touch the heartstrings of the rhythm to attract people's attention to the feelings contained in the audience, caused by the audience's **** Ming, and guide them to participate in the art of aesthetic activities. It can be seen that the rhythm is the basis for refining and organizing life as an artistic movement, the rhythm is the link of the structure of the dance movement, but also the overall layout of the dance works of the through line.
"The same is true of music, rhythm and beat are also the skeleton of music as a whole." In dance works, the dance image is in the music rhythm with, through the strength of the intensity of the weak, speed of the speed, the size of the energy, to profoundly and carefully reflect the character's inner emotional fluctuations, so the rhythm is the composition of the human body movements and music melody combination of the natural foundation. In a deeper sense, the rhythmic movements of human beings naturally require music to match, so all kinds of rhythmic collective labor through the ages have had labor horns. Of course, it is not any music that can be combined with dance, but music with a more distinctive rhythm. Music is easy to combine with other arts, such as theater, film, poetry and so on, but the most easy and must be combined with the dance, also because they have the same rhythm between the ****.
The second is lyricism. Music and dance are both long in lyricism this *** with the same characteristics, so that they can be in the work of art on the human emotions and feelings to make a deep and subtle embodiment. Of course, they are not as easy as literature to account for the cause and effect of things and complicated details of life, and they are in the lyrical aspect of the specialties of literature can not be replaced, which makes them stand side by side with the literature in the creative artistic activities of people, become any nation, any historical era can not be lack of spiritual food. Dance is highly refined through the human body movement as an artistic means to shape the artistic image, dance image shaping also comes from life, from the author of the knowledge and feeling of life. Dance is different from music in that it is an intuitive way of presenting the artistic image directly to the audience, so that the audience through the intuitive perception of the image, causing their own emotional excitement and thinking activities.
Music and dance, when they exist independently, each uses its own artistic means to play its social role. When they are due to their own particularities and limitations, so that the combination of each other become necessary to produce a new form of art, music and dance, close cooperation, complement each other, *** with the molding of a perfect artistic image, it has become crucial. In dance theater, dance, music and dance have the same artistic image of the same *** with the same purpose and task, in general, the dance image of the distinctive, touching, to a large extent, with the help of music on the depiction of the character's thoughts and feelings. The combination of dance and music forms the complete art of dance. The movements and gestures expressed by dance are the most beautiful and touching ones in the world, and the combination of them with the most beautiful and beautifully organized sound, i.e., the art of music, will bring a wonderful artistic enjoyment to people.
For example, the creation process of the modern dance "Hada to the People's Liberation Army" is a typical example. The choreographer and director first determined the theme of "singing the love between the army and the people", and then, through the construction of the "Hope Primary School" as a popular theme, chose to use the Tibetan "pot Zhuang" and "string" as the theme for the dance. Through the popular theme of building the "Hope Primary School", they chose to use the Tibetan "potshang" and "strings" as the main action materials, and portrayed the image of a Tibetan girl and a group of People's Liberation Army soldiers. From the design of the main action images. Choreographer in the work highlights the "love" is undoubtedly typical and innovative, but highlighting the "love" of this new idea is often only body language is not enough, which requires beautiful and emotional music. Composers according to the dance choreographer to provide the material, the content of the music for the creation. Such as: "-1 -3 -2 -1 6| 5 - - - - | - - -" in this dance with the Tibetan strings style theme music throughout the dance, this theme music for a while soft like water, showing the Tibetan girl for the People's Liberation Army tea, pouring water, offering the hata and love loved ones of the People's Liberation Army's character, and for a while and powerful, showing that the army works day and night, but also to show that the army is a very important part of the people's liberation, and that the army is a very powerful part of the people's liberation. Show the PLA day and night for the construction of the "Hope Primary School" labor mood. Seemingly simple music, because of its continuous reproduction, the audience appreciated the theme of the love between Tibetans and Han Chinese soldiers and people from the music, and the music image was therefore more full, and the dance image was more touching. The reason why the work has received a high evaluation, in addition to the choreographer's original idea, rich in national characteristics of the music on the dance atmosphere also plays an important role, from the above dance creation can be seen, dance belongs to the category of "see", not "see", it does not matter to appreciate the dance. Without "seeing", there is no need to appreciate the dance, in addition to "listening" to meet the needs of people's senses, through "listening" to expand the dance appreciation space, regulating emotions. Of course, although the music has its own independent performance space, we can not because of "listening" and over-emphasize the role of music, otherwise it will make the dance image of the dance out of the character image and make the dance to lose the value of the dance, we should understand that people will not be appreciated for the music to the dance performance place of this simple truth.
So, in this sense, it can be said that in the art of dance, music is exactly the sound of dance, dance is the form of music. A tangible and silent, a sound and intangible, the unity of dance and music, is the unity of different ways of expression, the unity of visual and auditory, the unity of form and illusion, and from the point of view of the general development process, dance and music can be mutually expressive, mutual reinforcement, such as the dance mentioned above can be interpreted music, the music can be for the dance to show the atmosphere, to strengthen the characteristics of the style, to stimulate the mood, to promote the plot and so on.
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