What kind of skills are there in the process of writing lyrics?
One of the most basic language skills in lyrics writing is to be easy to understand. In the lyrics writing we often use some metaphorical techniques, but these metaphors must be people's common, can quickly form a complete image in people's minds. If the image is too far away, then people will have a sense of ambiguity, which is not conducive to singing. A clear image will help people understand the lyrics. A typical example is the popular song "Two Butterflies". Fly slowly, dear, watch out for the roses with thorns. Darling, open your mouth, the scent of flowers in the wind will intoxicate you. Dear, you fly with me, through the jungle clouds to see the water of the brook ----- at once caught people's thoughts and feelings, at once brought people to that mood.
Two, another writing skill in lyrics writing, is to language concise, accurate. The language of the lyrics is very important, a word can express the meaning of never use two, which requires the basic skills of language, the need to grasp the language ability. This basic skill cannot be practiced overnight. You need to read a lot of books and accumulate a lot of vocabulary to accomplish it. Du Fu said: "Reading 10,000 scrolls, the pen is like a god" which summarizes it very eloquently, only by reading 10,000 scrolls and traveling 10,000 miles, can you be able to write with your hand. At this point, I think Du Xin's unknowns are very well written: "There is no way out, it would be better to give me the blessing, so that love ends honorably. There is no blessing, to less can also give some help, let each other frankly into admit defeat. There is no help, it is better to divide clearly. Let the identity is not too vague ---- language is very concise and accurate.
Third, the foreign language in the lyrics writing. Due to the cultural intermingling of East and West, there are more and more foreign languages in lyrics writing nowadays, which constitutes another highlight of lyrics writing. Nowadays, many excellent lyricists are quoting foreign languages, and there are more and more songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Of course, this is related to its specific historical background, but it is also a signal. As early as Li Anxiu's ＜Simple Girl＞, the words lauc and project appear in jumps, and later on, many songs even have whole paragraphs of English. These foreign languages are interspersed with Chinese lyrics, adding to the infectiousness of the lyrics and making them even more appealing to young fans.
All in all, the language skills of lyrics writing are very rich, and we should pay as much attention as possible to the development trend of popular songs in the process of lyrics writing. To provide more nutrients for lyrics writing.
One of the characteristics of the lyrics
We ＜Lyrics Square＞ established for a long time, from the establishment of the square to now there are a lot of writers visit the square, so that the square adds a lot of color, but in general, than the ＜Original Poetry＞ columns to do a few points worse, the reason for which in which? The main reason is that some authors are very fuzzy in their consciousness and do not know what is the difference between poems and lyrics, not to mention what are the basic characteristics of lyrics.
To solve these problems, you must first understand what are lyrics? What is the relationship between lyrics and poetry? What is the difference between lyrics and poetry? Below I will talk about my personal views on this issue. From the art form alone, lyrics and poetry are not essentially different, they are a form of poetry, in ancient times, lyrics and poetry is one, this is from the original folk songs to the Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuanqu basically are sung with music, which is one of the traditional characteristics of our poetry. So their origin is lyrics, only with the progress of society, the development of culture and art, poetry and song gradually separated into two different forms that can be sung and can not be sung, it is customary to call the poem can be sung lyrics; and can not be sung is called poetry. In fact, tracing back, they are the same root and origin of the sister art.
Poetry with music and poetry without music, from the artistic point of view are poems, so the lyrics have all the characteristics of poetry writing and expression, the difference is that the lyrics need to be set to music, so it should be concise and conducive to singing, and more conducive to be accepted by the people. From the structural point of view, as it is to be sung with music, its language, rhyme and expression should conform to the law of music. That is to say, the lyrics of the song are, to a certain extent, subject to the rhythm and melody of the music.
Lyrics, as the soul of the song, are the organic whole of the song. Its good or bad directly affects the quality of the song. We can take a look, all the songs that can be sung in a very short period of time, have a very meaningful and good words to match. So what is a good word? It is the lyrics with vivid language, distinctive images and a sense of the times, all of which are good songs. Like the eighties swept the mainland Taiwan campus song
Overall, good lyrics is a deeper thought content and extension, can highly summarize the real life and people's thoughts and feelings. It is through the vivid literary language, portraying a distinctive artistic image; the language of the lyrics should be easy to understand, know the short and concise, and be able to be heard and seen by the people; the writing of the lyrics should be rhyming and harmonious, the rhythm of the rhythm of the ups and downs, rich in the sense of music, easy to sing, easy to remember, easy to understand.
Modern Poetry:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Poetry
Significance: Poetry freely expresses the transcendental pursuit of the individual's life and soul. Young people are in the years of ideal pursuit, writing poetry is exactly once in a century. Poetry has a permanent aesthetic life and is the highest form of literature
Definition: there are words, feelings, imagination, feeling, law, rhyme, language structure, synthesis and so on, and these definitions are one-sided. Poetry is a literary genre that directly expresses the psychological activities of the creative subject and has a certain form of language. It can be called "expression". Fundamentally, it is to express the dynamic nature of the human being, the creative subject, and not to reflect things outside the creative subject. In order to truly express the poet's psychological activities for this purpose, often regardless of the psychological activities reflected in the objective things are how deformed.
Lecture 2: The Language of Poetry
The most native literary language, special function:
A. Lyricism, close to music which has little function of depiction.
B, organic information system, a word, can produce magical effect. Such as "Zhu Men" in the "Zhu Men", became synonymous with the ruling class, there are many meanings, as well as the author and the reader's feelings.
C, independent aesthetic value, can play. Fiction can leave language behind and retell the story, while poetry cannot leave language behind.
D, the general requirement is to express the psychological feelings of the personality,
Specific requirements are four: First, polysemy, both surface meaning and deep meaning. The main use of symbolism. Such as pine, plum, snow and bamboo, the Great Wall, lilies and so on. Traditional symbols are too rational, forming a rigid set. There are also hints, puns, euphemisms and so on.
The second is jumping, more than any genre language. Because the expression of rapid mental activity. Don't any prepositions, conjunctions and other medium - related words. Such as "the sound of chickens thatched store moon, people traces of boardwalk frost". Can also be logical confusion, arbitrary interlacing. Such as time and space intertwined. Such as "back time love" in the poet and the ancient beauty of love.
Third, perceptibility, to have a sense of color, three-dimensional and concrete (abstraction into concrete). There is a picture in the poem.
Fourth is musicality, both intrinsic musicality, i.e., the rhythm of emotions, and extrinsic musicality, i.e., the refrain of sound (rhyme, rhythm and tone). It acts as a kind of moderation of raw emotion. Rhythm is the determining factor, the rhythm of things and human physiological rhythm - the regulation of respiration and the feeling of movement is reflected, is the group of tones and pauses in a regular arrangement. A word has one syllable, and monosyllables, disyllables or polysyllables with independent meanings form a group, each followed by a long or short pause. Ancient poetry: pentameter "two, two, one". New poems are free and open, uniquely creative, and regular in their changes.
The earliest poems can be sung, poetry is not divided. The lyric poetry of primitive peoples, the main nature of music. China since the Sixth Dynasty, Shen Yao wrote the "four sound score", poetry from poetry began to differentiate. However, there are still differences between poetry and music. Many Tang poems have been composed and sung. The role of musicality in poetry is to play a restraining role on raw, hard and strong feelings, to transform them into a regular movement, to deepen the poetic flavor, to arouse the reader's aesthetic attention, and to put aside some practical and non-poetic ideas. Inner musicality is the rhythm of inner emotions, i.e. high and low, long and short, fast and slow. Extrinsic musicality is mainly expressed in the loop of sound, which can be described as a proportional relationship of numbers.
The main thing is that rhyming is to make the end of the relevant stanzas rhyme with the same or similar syllable. Rhyme should be treated with an open mind, respecting the poet's artistic pursuits; it may or may not be necessary as long as it perfectly conveys the inherent emotion. Unrhymed psalms can be made musical by other means, such as the arrangement of lines.
The first step is to choose a rhyme. Rhymes of the same kind form a rhyme scheme. Nowadays, there are thirteen ruts, i.e., thirteen categories: Middle East, Renchen, Jiangyang, Yanqian, Fahua, Huailai, ash heap, Yaojiao, Yauji, Sobo, Yichi, Gusu, soxie, etc. Each rhyme section has a part of pronunciation, a degree of opening, and a degree of opening. Each rhyme part of the pronunciation part, the degree of opening is different, the tone range is different. Some of them are high in loudness, exuberant and exuberant, such as Jiang Yang and Fa Hua. Some of the loudness is low, bitter, heavy, such as ash pile, a seven and so on. To choose a rhyme, because of the mood, because of the mood change rhyme.
The second is to change the rhyme. Longer poems, the flow of emotions change, which should be reflected in the form of voice. If a rhyme to the end, easy to give people monotonous, fatigue. Turning rhyme can make the gas a revitalization. Such as the "Spring River and Moonlit Night", four lines of a rhyme, flowing, euphemistic and lingering.
Rhyme again. There are mainly rhymes - every line is betting, spaced rhymes - in ancient times there are "one, three, five, two, four, six, clear" requirements, with rhyme - two lines of a change such as Xintiandi. - two lines of a change such as albatross, cross rhyme - the first line and the third line rhymes, the second line and the third line rhymes. Others include clasp rhyme, where the first line rhymes with the fourth line, and the second line rhymes with the third. This is the authentic rhyme scheme of the Western sonnet.
Tone The change of pitch and length in the process of pronunciation. Shen Yao's Four Tones was the earliest study of this issue. New poems can only pay attention to just. Especially when reciting poetry needs.
Rhythm This is a musical term, and is the decisive factor in the external musicality of poetry. In nature and in life, everything has a rhythm. The rhythm of poetry is a reflection of the rhythm of things and the physiological rhythm of man - the regulation of breathing and the feeling of movement. Poetic rhythm is the regular arrangement of groups of sounds and pauses. In Chinese, a word is usually a syllable, and monosyllables, disyllables or polysyllables with independent meanings form a group, each followed by a long or short pause.
The rhythm of ancient poems: "two, two, one" in pentameter; "two, two, two, one" in heptameter. Rhythm of new poems: free and open, unique and creative; each line is roughly equivalent, and there is regularity in the changes.
Lecture 3: Poetic Lineation
New poems do not have the fixed musical regulations of ancient poems, and western lineation is introduced to enhance the sense of rhythm and melody to achieve musicality.
A. The lines are adapted to the mood of the poem in terms of length, sparseness and unevenness. The line follows the inner rhythm of poetry - the rhythm of emotion - and its shape is a structural form that visualizes and displays the inner emotion. Whitman expresses the pioneering, bold, free and romantic emotions of the founding of the nation, and the lines are long, as if they were the vast expanse of the New World frontier. Mayakovsky expresses the dramatic changes of the October Revolution, and the lines take the shape of a staircase, with great ups and downs and jaggedness.
B. The use of ellipses and jumps in poetic lines, which are more random, creates new structural meanings. For example, the juxtaposition of the upper and lower lines of the poem produces a new meaning: "Juman's door stinks of wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road".
C. Branching turns visual intervals into auditory intervals, showing rhythm. This is the effect produced in reading. Reading them together does not show rhythm.
D, The division of lines draws aesthetic attention to the poem and makes one appreciate it with the psychology of poetry.
Requirements: A. Pay attention to the organic combination of line and line. The key is across the line - a sentence takes up more than two lines. This is to pause and focus attention on the next line - emphasizing the most valuable and glorious language.
B. Branching lines are evolving and should be original. For example, the traditional emotional motifs change into pictograms and congruent motifs.
C. The branching line emphasizes more on the visual effect of the poem, changing from "auditory art" to "visual art". This is because the inherent complexity and multi-layered nature of the new poem is difficult to express directly through recitation, and can only use the arrangement of words to maintain the poetic meaning. According to Kahler, whether a text is a poem or not does not necessarily depend on the language itself, but on the arrangement of words, i.e., the visual form. A piece of news can be arranged as a poem: Yesterday on Highway 7 a car traveling at 100 miles per hour slammed into a French sycamore, killing all four people in the car
Visually, key words are emphasized. "Slammed," for example, contains more psychological volume. "Death," which is sudden and shocking.
Lecture 4 Dialectical Techniques
Poetry places more emphasis on dialectical techniques. Poetry is artistic life, and only dialectical skill can write it well.
Examples: from the subject-object relationship, there are subjective and objective, with me and without me, etc.; from the artistic conception, there are form and god, virtual and real, big and small, hidden and exposed, all and incomplete, abstract and figurative, finite and infinite, seemingly and unlikely, simple and complex, exaggeration and realism, etc.; from the art of expression, there are sparse and dense, curved and straight, broken and continuous, out and in, positive and negative, suppression and enhancement, skillful and clumsy, raw and ripe; from the artistic style, there are ornate and sophisticated, and the artistic style of poetry. In terms of artistic style, there are gorgeous and simple, natural and decorated, strong and talkative, masculine and feminine, calm and elegant.
Focus:
1. Self and Selflessness: Self is self-consciousness. Selflessness, is the transcendence of the self, not the abolition of individuality. Egolessness, first, refers to forgetfulness, that is, the mind is free to roam and mingle with external objects, to achieve the state of forgetfulness; second, refers to the big ego, refers to the country, the nation and the times. It is only when there is a self that one can be sincere and have individuality. There is no self in order to be unrestricted and to have a sense of universality and history.
2. Limited and unlimited: limited refers to the specific verse; unlimited refers to the connotation of the verse. The key is to write a good limited.
3. Imaginary and real: The real is the information directly conveyed to the reader through the depiction of the objective image. Virtual is the reader through association and imagination and indirectly obtain information. The combination of the real and the virtual one is to turn the real into the virtual, such as "the scenery into feelings", and the second is to turn the virtual into the real, the abstract feelings and philosophical to the concrete and vivid image, the use of metaphor.
4. small and big: small and big refers to the description of the object. A flavor of writing small will be limited to trivial; a flavor of broad is flowing in the wild. Romanticism is more expansive. Love poetry is easy to trivialize. Mao poetry is too "big". First, it should be small and big, such as "What is it like to float? A sand gull in heaven and earth". The second is to see the big with the small, "red apricot branches of spring", "window containing the West Ridge thousands of autumn snow".
Lecture 5: Patterns of Poetry
Patterns play a big role in teaching. Some people disapprove of them, thinking that they bind the writer. This is one-sided, and can even be said to fail to grasp the essentials of creativity and teaching. The genre is the pattern. However, beginners do not have to copy, create a period of time to consciously leave behind the pattern, to play creativity, arbitrary drafting. There are roughly nine poetic modes.
Symbolic Mode
This mode is the heirloom of poetry, and is also known as the multi-layered mode: it gives an image at the visual level of the symbols in the text, and at the same time, it gives a meaning at the deeper level of the associations (a physical thing or a spiritual content) in an unlimited number of generalizations and encompassing as much as possible. Symbols are superficial and clear, and may even be prescribed by traditional rationality, such as the plum orchid, pine and bamboo, the Great Wall and so on. The symbolized body, on the other hand, is hidden and ambiguous. The relationship between the two should be arbitrary to facilitate creativity. Genius poets put the apparently unrelated internal and external imagery through similar associations to form a marvelous idea. The key is to capture the ****similarity between the two, while other attributes are as far apart as possible.
The central method is to choose the image, the formation of symbolic imagery. Imagery, also known as artistic image, can be said to constitute the cells of the large system of literature and art. Imagery - human consciousness (including emotions. Fundamentally, it is the aesthetic and cognitive needs of the human being), which ultimately manifests itself in literature and art as the projection and expression of the author's individual life. Image - objective things, external to the author, but ultimately objectified by the essence of the author's life. The combination of the two is imagery, and the number of components of the two and the relationship between them, such as hidden and sparse, has resulted in two basic methods of literary creation, namely, Romanticism, which emphasizes meaning, and Realism, which emphasizes imagery, and has become the source of the theory of expression and the theory of reflection. Symbolic imagery has a specific requirement over general imagery: to be the central image of the poem. The best symbolic imagery is infinite in meaning, expresses the inner world of the author as much as possible, and becomes a universe of artistic individuality.
As a rule, the titles of such poems are written with a symbolic body (or even a character). However, the inner body, i.e. the feelings of the author's individual life, is what the poem is really about.
Air
For a while hold your breath,
How I want to hear you!
But you are peaceful and still,
What kind of words do you have?
Stretching out trembling fingers,
How I would like to touch you!
But you are nowhere to be seen,
What kind of form do you have?
With longing eyes wide open,
How I want to see you!
But you are transparent and colorless,
What kind of beauty do you have?
But I know clearly,
I can't leave you for a moment!
You are in my life,
You are with my breath ......
In this little poem, the air becomes the symbolic image at the center of the structure. Peaceful and quiet, transparent and lightless, shadowless air, but contains the author's endless heart - both pure and noble love and unlimited pursuit of life, so truly dominate the author's life, but also so far away, unattainable. Most people are not so!
The sixth mode of poetry
The transverse mode
This kind of poetry intercepts a slice of life or a slice of consciousness, describes a series of images, or uses a series of metaphors, in order to express the feelings of the author, to express the author's consciousness. Many landscape poems are exactly like this. It is important to create the mood as much as possible. For example, Du Fu's Spring Hope.
Vertical Mode
This type of poem takes the advancement of the author's point of observation as a clue, and as time passes or space unfolds, what is seen and heard and felt are blended into one. For example, He Jingzhi's "Return to Yan'an". These poems are generally longer and are mostly narrative poems.
Sublimation Mode
This kind of poem is usually divided into two parts, the first part is a gentle padding, and the second part is a new idea, resulting in a striking breakthrough, which sublimates the feelings and mood to a new height. Most of the old-style poems that talk about "aspiration" adopt this pattern, writing about the scenery in the front, blending the scene, and writing about "aspiration" in the back, with feelings in the aspiration. Mao Zedong's "Qinyuanchun. The first is the "Snow", which is the first of its kind in the world.
String of pearls
This type of poetry consists of several juxtaposed sections of the same structure with some of the same lines. Repeated chants. The Book of Songs has more poems of this type.
Lecture 7: Lectures on Poetry
Confessional Mode
Direct expression of feelings and use of assertive argument, also known as the argumentative mode. It has a long history, and most Romanticism uses lyricized argument, i.e., confessional. Many political and philosophical poems belong to this "traditional confession". This kind of confession is not easy to write well, first of all, the author must reach the highest level of awareness and experience of an era. Among the Western modernists, Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was the first and the second, and it made a lot of use of confessions, so much so that the American poetry formed the confessional school after the 50s, represented by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", and occupied the mainstream position. Most of the poems of the "third generation" in China in the 1980s belonged to the "confessional" poems. Unlike the Romantic confessions of the early period, the confessions in contemporary poetry can be called "anti-traditional confessions": they are intentionally anti-traditional - opposed to culture, aesthetics, individuality, rationality and even poetry itself - but in fact, they limit the subject matter to the personal experience of life, mainly to the circle of ego feelings. In fact, the subject matter is limited to personal life experience, mainly the circle of my own feelings. Most of the poems are written in the first person, without any formalities, and they reveal their feelings about life and even their privacy in everyday colloquialisms, sometimes touching on society and criticizing it to a certain extent. The "confessional" poems emphasize more on language, form and meaning, and even write entertaining documentary poems, calling themselves "play" poems. As an exploration of poetry as a whole, "confessional poetry" can be said to have a historical role in shifting from social criticism to the affirmation of individual life.
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2 Poetry Writing Techniques (below)
Pictorial Patterns
Poetry lines are arranged in the shape of a central image, which becomes a pictorial pattern. For example, the French poet Apollinaire's "The Stabbed Dove of Peace". Another example is the poem by the Taiwanese poet Bai Di, which is like a landscape painting (the lines go from right to left and the words go from top to bottom), a metaphor for the wanderer as a silk fir far away from the mountains, forests and lakes.
Lecture 8: Poetry Mode
Modern Mode
Transplanted from Western modernist poetry. Significantly different from traditional poetry in content and form, and believes that content is form and form is content, thus placing greater emphasis on formal innovation. It writes about the split and absurdity between the individual and society, nature, other people, and even the self, reflecting the spiritual crisis, perverted psychology, pessimism, despair, and nihilism brought about by the high degree of development of capitalist society. It emphasizes the expression of the inner mind, which is in fact only the instincts (desires, especially sexual desires) and subconsciousness that are unpredictable and unpredictable. The main methods used are: ① Perceptualization of ideas, i.e. abstraction of the physical senses. Abstract ideas and concrete images are directly combined to "perceive ideas as you smell roses (Eliot)". For example, the poem "Dance of Force", "Dizzy Will", "Damp Souls Sprouting". Free association. This kind of association is not inherent in the thing itself, recognized by everyone, but is based on personal intuition and hallucination to write out the association. For example, "The sun is the soccer ball kicked out of the sun. The form of language can be varied at will, and is used to imply the feeling, imagination and state of mind of a certain moment.
For example, E. Cummings' "The Sun Goes Down," quoted earlier.
Congruent Mode
Some lines in this type of poem are arranged in abstract shapes, indicating some kind of tendency. For example, the arrangement of lines in the second half of "The Sun Goes Down" suggests the sound of bells rising and falling in the wind.
Another example is the Mid-Autumn Moon
Sang Heng-chang
Since my mother left me forever,
I have never looked at it again,
for fear that a single tear
will fall
and wet the earth.
Attachment: Current state of poetry
One is traditional realist poetry - rationalized content. Such as Guo Xiaochuan's The Green Veil - Sugarcane Forest. Such as "Chalk Chant".
The second is hazy poetry - not hazy nature. Such as Gu Cheng's "Open Your Eyes".
Third is the third generation - the vanguardists, the over-achievers, etc.
The fourth is "hot wave poetry". Such as Wang Guozhen's poems.
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