Simplified Score of Spring Festival Overture:
The Spring Festival Overture is the first movement of the Spring Festival Suite, formally titled Spring Festival Suite First Movement. Overture - Da Yangge". It is often drawn out to be played separately.
It is a work written by China's famous composer and music theorist Li Huanzhi in the 1950s based on his life experience during the Yan'an period, showing the scene of the people in the revolutionary base area who were enthusiastically celebrating the Spring Festival in those years.
It's melodic tunes were both elegant and popular, and its theme was a grand festival with a very popular base, so since its birth, it has gradually evolved into a small tradition attached to the Spring Festival. Especially after the popularity of the TV Spring Festival Gala, this song has become more familiar.
Expanded:
"Chinese New Year Suite" was composed in 1955-1956, the music is based on the tones and rhythms of the folk rice-planting songs of northern Shaanxi Province. The piece is based on the tones and rhythms of the folk rice-planting songs of northern Shaanxi, with a bright melody that vividly expresses the lively and joyful scenes of our people during the traditional festivals, when they beat gongs and drums and carry songs and dances.
The music depicts the scene of people twisting rice-planting songs during the Spring Festival, and the rhythm of gongs and drums of rice-planting songs has been added to the music. The theme consists of two Shaanbeier folk suona tunes, and in the middle part of the piece is a melodious Shaanbeier folk song.
The introduction to the Spring Festival Overture is equivalent to the crossing section. The first part is a fervent Allegro, depicting the singing and dancing scenes of the big field. The middle part is a lyrical middle panel, depicting the dance performance in the small field. Then it returns to the music of the first part, depicting the rice-planting songs closing with the big field. The final coda repeats the second half of the introduction.