What are the four famous Nanyin songs?

1, four seasons scene. It is the first of four famous Nanyin songs, with eight movements and eight solar terms as the theme, describing the scenery of four seasons and eight festivals. This song contains the ancient people's awareness of solar terms, grasping solar terms, good weather and good times in four seasons. This song has a very wide range, almost using up the phonemes of Nanba, which is the highest realm of Nanba's performance. The speed of music changes greatly, and the beat changes from adagio, adagio, adagio and allegro to allegro. Colorful and different movements give people the feeling of visiting the beautiful scenery of the four seasons.

2. "plum blossom exercise". It belongs to one of the four most famous Qupai in Quanzhou Nanyin, namely Four Seasons, Plum Blossom (Plum Blossom Exercise), Walking (Eight Horses) and Returning to the Nest. The whole song consists of five bars: making snow for spring, laughing in the wind, smelling water, breaking the calyx with beads, and blooming and falling.

3. "Zou Ma". The whole song is reproduced in a cycle of paragraphs composed of rhythm and sound like a horse. This paragraph blends with the first half. This structural style is common in China's circular structure, which is related to "changing the head" in China's poetry meter and "closing the head" in China's opera qupai. This paragraph is in the second half of each section. Mainly through the jumping back and forth of Shang Yin (re) and Qian Yin (sol), the dynamic performance of horse's paw unfolding is vividly displayed by using different rhythm combinations.

4. "Birds return to their nests". This song is one of the four famous songs, and it is a piece of music that depicts the characteristics of birds and colorful scenes. The whole song contains six movements, mainly using Dong Xiao's special skills to express the special gestures of various birds. Flowers and birds are beautiful things, symbolizing good luck and the pursuit of a better life.

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Nanyin has a long history and is becoming more and more prosperous. Foreign religious music has also had a far-reaching impact on Quanzhou local music. There are 48 sets of * * *, which describe the dynamics of horses with lively tunes, and lyrics such as "Drunken Penglai". Used for court music, dogs barking (small gong). It also has eighteen episodes, which follow the pitch rule.

Nanyin's singing (playing) and eight horses benefited from the unprecedented prosperity of Quanzhou's overseas transportation and trade during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and also showed its unique style of gorgeous oriental ancient music. Its shape is similar to the Western Qin recorded by Chen Chang in Le Shu in the Song Dynasty, and it comes from Dunhuang murals. Its melody is elegant and elegant [Introduction to Nanyin], and many of these titles are Minnan dialect which is difficult for foreigners to understand, and its "meaning" and "jade" fully demonstrate this point;

Pipa music is lyrical, easy to learn and understand, and has a yang accent. Each set includes three to ten kinds of singing methods with different pleasure, but no lyrics, and the singer improvises and creates freely; The notation of Nanyin Gong Chi Ji is simple in form and tone, and its value has attracted the attention and favor of experts and scholars all over the world.