How Happy We Are, a children's song written by Jin Fan and composed by Zheng Lvcheng, was written on 1955 and sung by china national radio Children's Choir. 1980 Song won the first prize of the Second National Children's Literature Creation Award.
The song was written on 1955. That year, Zheng Lvcheng was transferred to the Central Orchestra and lived in a quadrangle in Xicheng District, Beijing, with Jin Tan Youfan, Hua Guan and other songwriters. Zheng Lvcheng lives in the west room and Jin Fan lives in the east room. They often talk about their childhood.
At the suggestion of Zheng Lvcheng, Jin Fan wrote the lyrics of How Happy We Are. After writing the lyrics, Jin Fan gave them to Zheng Lvcheng. After Zheng Lvcheng got the lyrics, he quickly set them to music. After composing, they found china national radio Children's Choir for audition, with Zhang Yi as the lead singer, and this classic children's song was born.
How happy we are. Song appreciation:
How Happy We Are, with its cheerful melody in C major, regular syntax, moderate range, clarity, health and vigor, shows the children's happy growth in the sun and their yearning for a better future. In terms of beat and rhythm, this chorus uses the beat, cheerful rhythm and beating melody with the characteristics of dance music, which vividly depicts the happy life and positive spiritual quality of children in New China.
However, the melody of this song is not an ordinary waltz rhythm. Because of syncopation, the second beat of the air beat has also become a strong beat, which adds the solemn and serious characteristics of Salabande dance to this song. At the same time, the alternation of strong and weak rhythms also has a more obvious Korean national dance style, and the music character is lively.