As the theme song of the play, the melody, rhythm, singing method and many elements in the song all set off the sad atmosphere in the film, which makes people feel more cordial.
The prelude of the song is a colorful prelude, which no longer appears in the later melody, and many colorful musical elements are used in it, including knocking, machine gun shooting, artillery explosion and so on, which lays an emotional foundation for the whole song. There are several big jumps at the beginning of the song. With the processing of the volume from weak to strong, it vividly shows the cruelty of war and the hardships of people's lives. After the big jump, the melody line is full of reverse sound insulation and relaxed and natural balance. In the second half of the prelude, a wave-like melody is accompanied by ups and downs, from tension to relaxation, which indicates that this fascinating love story is about to begin in a society full of smoke.
The song is a two-part theme, which consists of two sentences: "The balcony is covered with wisteria frames, and half of them are crawling in the sunset. Who is playing the Hu Qin? " This sentence vividly depicts a romantic and very bleak scene for us. With the sigh of Hu Qin, the heroine is looking forward to her beautiful love when watching the sunset. The sentence "Red rouge reflects the white crescent moon, and it is still raining outside the oil-paper umbrella" depicts another poetic picture for us. "Holding an oil-paper umbrella, I wandered alone in a long, lonely rain lane, hoping to meet a girl as sad as cloves. She does have the same color, fragrance and sadness as lilac, sad in the rain, sad and hesitant; She wandered in this lonely rain lane, holding an oil-paper umbrella, like me, like me, silently sad, indifferent, sad and melancholy. " Melody retains the main features of the theme, and some factors of the theme develop and change in various ways, making music form a whole in contrast. With the overture as the background, it is predicted that the beautiful love story in this war will go through a bumpy road. The theme of the song laid the emotional tone of the whole song and laid the foundation for the development of the melody later.
Melody line is a means of expression of music, and it is a phenomenon of complete integration of thoughts and feelings, so it is also the most vivid and rich, and the melody line of this song is also very distinctive. The first sentence of the song, "The balcony is covered with wisteria, and it is halfway up in the sunset. Who is playing the Hu Qin? " Generally speaking, it is an upward melody line, and the mood and tension are gradually enhanced; Among them, the characteristics of wave melody line are added, such as Balcony is a rising scale, Riding tends to be balanced, Wisteria Rack repeats the previous melody, and Climbing in the Sunset rises from low to high. With the ups and downs of people's feelings, the upward melody line is exciting and emotional. The application of rhythm in places such as "overlap", "flower stand" and "who's there" and the enhancement of volume give new impetus to the melody and make the audience's emotions as excited-relaxed-excited and excited as waves. Repeat the melody of the previous sentence in the place where "red rouge reflects the wind and sand of the white crescent moon years, and it is still raining outside the oil-paper umbrella". The use of modeling closely follows the raw materials, but does not retain all the raw materials, thus highlighting the main body of the whole song, deepening the impression, bringing some new ideas to the audience and increasing the emotional connotation and color of the music.
The climax part is pushing the climax. "Just a selfish woman is just a selfish man, don't calculate the price that love has fallen to the end of the world. Just an ordinary woman is just an ordinary man, don't worry about the truth of love. " The length is similar to the theme part, but it embodies the characteristics of upward melody line, which rises step by step. In the first "selfish" place, the same voice is repeated five times, which highlights the rhythm of the song and makes the melody low and smooth, like telling a story. The second "selfish" place, where the two notes are repeated up and down, is different from the first "selfish", that is, it has achieved innovation and played a decorative role. On the whole, it is promoted by mode, step by step, and suddenly rises in the place of "people", resulting in a small climax, which enhances the impression of the audience, ups and downs, and gradually pushes the song to a climax. Among them, the "calculation" of "calculating love" reached the highest point and the speed suddenly slowed down. At the same time, the use of jumping, from weak to strong, makes people's feelings tense at once, attracts the attention of the audience, gives full play to the main body of the song, profoundly expresses the author's love view and world outlook, and well combines the theme of the play. After jumping in, use reverse filling at the same time, one by one. In the second half of the climax, the characteristics of the first half are repeated in melody, speed and rhythm, but the last sentence slows down and enters an interlude. Once again, it deepened the impression of the audience and produced a * * * sound with the audience.
Rhythm comes from life and nature. In music, rhythm is a very important means of expression. It gives the melody a distinct personality and gives the work a more accurate and vivid musical image. As a lyric song, his rhythm is gentle and stretched, and he sings at a medium speed, combined with a beautiful and euphemistic melody, fully expressing people's inner feelings. The tone quality and timbre characteristics of "Huqin" are more vividly expressed by polyphonic rhythm in "Pull up the Huqin to make a baby", which impressed the audience deeply. This song was shot in 4/4, and the original 4/4 rule of strength was strong, weak, sub-strong and weak, so the contrast between strength and weakness was not very strong. Polyphony rhythm is used many times in this song, especially in the drum part after the climax, and its strong and weak rhythm is changed to "weak, strong and weak". At the same time, polyphonic rhythm is added before each strong note, imitating the rhythm of weak beat, so as to enhance the rhythm power, make the strong beat more powerful and compact, and coordinate with the lyrics and melody, emphasizing the color of the song.
In the aspect of interlude, it is a developmental interlude, partly developed from the beginning melody of the theme part of the song, "The balcony is covered with wisteria", which is repeated twice. After each repetition, the background sound effect is repeated in reverse, forming a wavelet; The other part is developed from the prelude, modeled after it, with only one sound changed. This reflects the change of musical mood and rising tone, and makes a good connection for the climax part behind.
As a popular song, good singing skills are indispensable, and this song is also very distinctive in singing skills, using male and female duets and chorus. In the aspect of singing sequence, the female voice sings the theme part first, and the male voice sings the climax part again. While the male voice is singing, the female voice uses the "ah" voice as a foil to increase the color and drama of the music; Then the female voice sings the theme part. After the intermission, the girls sang the climax, and the male voice was set off by the last sentence of the female voice, which increased the focus; After that, men and women sang together to the climax. The male voice appeared later than the female voice and ended later. After the male voice ended, the female voice just connected, making the whole song look extremely compact. Moreover, the female voice sings the climax of the original work, and the male voice changes the lyrics, and every word rhymes to match the female voice's lyrics. Melody, the harmony of boys' melody is the main theme, and it has also changed, which is more decorative and stylized, especially at the end of each sentence, which gives full play to the feelings expressed by the song and pushes the song to the final climax!
There are many subtleties in the melody, rhythm and mode of the song "Love in a Fallen City". The whole song is harmonious and unified, step by step, and finally sublimated.