The basic singing cadences of the Two Clip Strings are Daban and Erban. In addition, there are three boards, northern words, dolls, goats, twists, zanzi, chopping the head of the pegs, planting boards, crying fanzi and other cadences. The accompanying instruments are mainly the sihu and liuyeqin, supplemented by erhu, banhu, sanxian, and transverse flute. The percussion instruments are the same as those of Peking Opera. In terms of singing, except for the old man, who is influenced by the high-toned clappers and uses the "Erben accent" (falsetto), the youngest, the Dan, the ugly, and the purest are all based on the real voice, and the last voice is turned up with falsetto, which maintains the traditional singing characteristics.
The traditional custom of the two-clip string is to sing more than to do, so its singing is the core of the theater layout.
In the early stage, the roles of the student and the dan were sung with the original voice, and the red-faced and flower-faced roles were sung with the two original voices.
After the 1920's and 1930's, the two-clip string developed rapidly, with a full range of roles, music, and singing style basically formed, basically sung with the real voice, and with the false voice for the final note, and only the red-faced roles sung with the two original voices. From this period onwards, the two-stringed singing style was basically fixed.
The lyrics of the two strings have two different structural forms; one is the upper and lower stanzas based on seven-character sentences and cross sentences, with the rhymes of upper oblique and lower flat, and the lower stanzas rhyming. In this structural form, there is also a long and short sentence structure with a variable number of words. Although this structural form of lyrics is still up and down sentence form, the sentence form is not too strict in its ranking and listing, and the rhyme scheme is not necessarily symmetrical; the other structural form is the "three, three, two" structure of the [doll] sentence form, which has a different structure. The other structural form is the "three, three, two" [doll] stanza, in which all the lines have the same rhyme scheme, except for the fourth and seventh lines, which skip rhymes. The third line is "平、平、仄", the middle three lines are "仄、平、仄", and the last two lines are "仄、平". In practice, this requirement is not very strict.
The language of the two strings is a dialect of the southwestern region of Lu, which is basically the same as Mandarin, but the four tones have obvious differences, and the vocabulary is not the same.
Wenchang band configuration, size varies, generally four to eight people. The use of musical instruments to the four-string (also known as the four hu) based, it is similar to the erhu, there are four strings, respectively, clamped with two strands of the horse's tail to play, in order to send out a double seal, the volume is larger, the master of the piano in the performance of the strings are often wearing a metal finger cap, the timbre of the sound is resounding and powerful, and other stringed instruments, erhu, short stalks of the fall of the hu, and sometimes violin, cello, and with the. Plucked instruments include the pipa (in the early years, the willow leaf zither was used, the same as that used in Shandong's La Soul Chamber, which has now been changed to the universal pipa), the zhongruan, the sanxian, and so on. The wind and reed instruments are bamboo flute, sheng, and mulligans.
The most critical in the martial arts music is the drummer, who is the commander-in-chief of the music of the martial arts field, and also plays the hand plate, side drums and drums. Gongs, wooden fish, cymbals, etc. are rarely used, generally not another person, but by the manipulation of gongs, cymbals, respectively, and oboe by the string musicians.
The classic traditional repertoire of the two-stringed opera is known as the "Old Eight Books" ("The First Hall," "The Second Hall," "Repudiation of Wife," "The Flower Wall," "The Big Curtain," "The Second Curtain," "The Sedan Chair," and "The Holding of the Brand"). In addition, there are more than 90 plays such as "Standing on the Flower Wall", "Liang Zhu Goes Down to the Mountain", "An An Sends Rice", "Lv Mengzheng Catches up with Zhai", "Xiao Gu Xian", "Wang Dingbao Borrows Pawns", etc., mostly reflecting the folk drama; there are also a lot of transplants from the Liuzi Opera and other local operas.
After the founding of New China, the two strings created (or adapted) a large number of excellent plays reflecting the new era of socialism and the new life, which made the two strings gain a new life and became popular among the masses.
The two-stringed string is a singing-based, singing to win the show, in the development of the performance of other types of programs also absorbed, so that the performance skills have been greatly improved, and the repertoire related to the line to the "three small" (small, small, clowns) is the main. The other lines are also mostly modeled after other sister plays.
The accompanying instruments of the two-stringed opera are called the "three big ones" in the traditional musical instruments, namely the four-stringed, the falling zither and the willow zither. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the pipa was used instead of the liuqin.
The four-stringed; is a two-stringed accompaniment in the cultural field of the leading instrument, made of wood. Its specifications are: string body *** divided into string pole, string column, Qianjin, string horse, string barrel, pallet, python skin, bow pole, horse tail (two strands) nine parts.
The lute: one of the three main instruments of the two-stringed "three big things". Soft tone, and four-stringed form of contrast, complement each other. Early for the octagonal wooden barrel, now changed to round copper.
Pipa: is one of the two strings of the "three" main instrument, plucked instrument, rich in color, sound and four strings, drop the piano with harmony, *** with the formation of two strings of the accompanying band in the acoustic core, is an important embodiment of the characteristics of the musical style of the play.
In addition, the two strings Wenchang instrument is also equipped with sheng, flute, three strings. Now there are additional instruments such as cello, violin, electronic piano, yangqin and erhu.
The percussion instruments are the same as those of Shandong Opera.
The two-stringed face has absorbed the face modeling art of Peking Opera and Shandong Opera, and is roughly divided into "white face", "red face" and "black face", "two-flower face" and other "hook face" and other types.
The "red-face" face of the two-stringed Chinese opera is sometimes performed without a hook.