Introduction to Northeast Folk Songs

This article introduces you to the basics of music related to Northeast folk songs.

Northeastern folk songs are the collective name for the Han Chinese ditties circulating in the three northeastern provinces, and its lyrics are the poeticization of the language of life of the northeastern people. Due to geography, language, and habits of life, the people of the Northeast have developed a bold temperament, which is often fully reflected in the folk songs. Some tunes in the folk songs of the Northeast are influenced by the singing of the local opera, so they are very rich in local colors, lively and vivid, reflecting the cheerful character of the working people and their rich interest in life. Northeastern folk songs are generally characterized by a high and loud tone, a broad melody, a long rhythm, and the use of sound is also relatively straight. The Northeast Wind", "Lunar Five Nights", "Lullaby" and "Little New Year's Day" have become representative folk songs of the Northeast, which have been sung for a long time and are y loved by the people. With the passage of time, the Northeast folk songs also show more and more of its unique artistic style and charm.

Northeastern folk songs can be divided into three categories: mountain songs, songs and dances, and shaman tunes

Mountain Songs

Mountain songs are divided into? long tunes, short tunes, and short tunes. short tunes? The long tone? The songs are very strong and robust, and the beats are free; the short tunes? Short tune? The tune is smooth and rhythmic.

Dance and song

Dance and song are mostly in the form of a leader and a crowd.

Shaman tune

Shaman tune is a song for inviting the gods, jumping to the gods, ancestor worship, funeral, the tune of chanting, mostly for the leader and. Oroqen folk songs are in pentatonic scale. Most of them are in Gong and Fei tunes. Their favorite folk songs are "Ehulan. De Hulan", a song that celebrates nature.

Content

? Feelings of grief and sorrow, and the cause of the matter?

The content of Northeastern folk songs is often a true reflection of the people's lives and the direct flow of thoughts and feelings. It sings the pain and joy of the people and describes the life and spirit of the people on the black soil in different historical periods. It also has a strong sense of the times, but also has a distinctive class consciousness and strong class feelings, and the tendency to love and hate is always clear and unobtrusive. In the old society, the working people were y oppressed by the three mountains, living a life worse than cattle and horses, and the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders trampled on the three northeastern provinces. At that time, the people on the black land were living in deep water, and this miserable scene was reflected in the northeastern folk songs, such as "Coal Hei Zi Bitter," which reflects the suffering of the working people, and expresses the strong dissatisfaction of northeastern Hanzi with the reality of life, and the desire for a free and happy life.

After the liberation of the vast number of working people and created a lot of songs sing the turnaround, sing liberation, singing leaders, singing **** the Communist Party, singing free and happy life songs. Such as: "New Northeast Wind", "turn over five more" and so on.

In the Northeast folk songs, there are many songs are closely related to production and labor practices, such as the rhythm of the labor horn: "Ha Waist Hanging", "dialing grain package horn", "hit the road base song", etc., and some of them directly reflect the scene of labor, labor, labor mood, but also to reflect the majority of the laboring people are hard-working and courageous, and not afraid of difficulties, full of people will win the day of triumph of the faith, such as: "Sisters on the field of hospitals", Selling Dumplings", "Busy in Production", "The Dragon King" and so on. There are also songs reflecting real life, expressing love and local customs. Such as: "Lullaby", "Look at the lover", "against the flower", "back to the mother's home" and so on.

Northeastern folk songs, bred in this dark land, bred in the bold, optimistic people in the blood of the Northeast, they are people's labor in the pain and happiness, life in the joy and sorrow, the folklore, the interest, the green mountains, the beautiful water, the young man, the handsome girl that the shy love with the joyful, simple, unrestrained, soft and gentle tone sung, weaving a colorful and unique local flavor of the folklore picture. Pictures. The new cargos, look at the love, Ussuri boat song, etc., each song exudes the corn fragrance of the black earth, each line of the lyrics are permeated by the Northeast people's arrogance.

The key

Northeastern folk songs are mainly in minor keys, mostly in the Gong-Zheng mode, but also in the Shang-Yu mode.

Such as: "Northeast Wind", "Kite Flying", "Turning Five Nights", "Celebrating the New Year", "Little Watching", "Returning to My Mother's Home", "Lullaby" and so on are all levies, "Throwing the Ring", "Selling Dumplings", "Showing Cloud Shoulder", "Little New Year's Day" and so on are all palace tunes; "Jasmine Flower No. 2", "Pair of Flowers" and so on for the Shangyu tunes. Northeastern folk songs in general give people a bright, lively feeling.

Melodic

Northeastern folk songs are often the first of the same tone over and over again, or the use of repetition of the expression, the two are often stacked, followed by the use of ? The first is a new one, which is a new one, and the second is a new one. The first is the same as the second, but the second is the same as the third. or? or tighten?

The Northeastern folk songs often have four degree melodic intervals.

Northeastern folk songs often appear in the melodic intervals of the fourth degree, but at the same time, more prominent use of small third intervals, melodic, rhythmic regularity. The people are very good at utilizing the expressive elements of music, short and concise techniques, creating distinctive, accurate and vivid musical images, and expressing profound content and ideological feelings.

The melodies of Northeastern folk songs are fresh and clear, with regular rhythms, close to the natural language form, mostly in 2/4 beat, with accurate and vivid images, full of vigor and vitality, and with strong local characteristics.

In terms of expression, there are also these outstanding features:

① Using the four seasons, the fifth and twelfth months to embellish the lyrics, forming a decomposition of the form of the song. For example, "right to the flower", "against the flower", "turn over five nights", which shows the people's high creative talent and artistry.

② The use of liner notes is a feature of the Northeast folk songs, such as: "small theater" to show the Northeast's unique wit and humor.

③The tongue trill is used throughout the song, together with the liner notes used to imitate the sound of gongs and drums, which fully demonstrates that Northeastern folk song?

Sometimes the use of dialect in the lyrics highlights the regional characteristics of the Northeast, and sounds intimate.

Artistic Value

The folk songs of the Northeast express the courageous spirit of the people of the Northeast, their hard-working style and their fiery sentiments. It unites the wisdom of the people of the Northeast, and is the masterpiece of the Guandong people. Northeast folk songs occupy an important position in China's folk songs and have high artistic value.

1. Northeast folk songs are loved by people

Guo Song, the king of Northeast folk songs, inherited, enriched and developed Northeast folk music, giving it distinctive characteristics of the times and a new life. At the same time, he also through his own unique singing, the Northeast folk songs and with the Northeast regional flavor of the creative song introduced to the whole of China and the world many countries and regions of the people, so that the Northeast region of the music in China and the world's music garden more colorful.

2. Northeastern folk songs promote ? The Northeast folk songs promoted the development of "Er Ren Ren" (二人转? and the development of Northeast rice-planting songs

The five categories of traditional music (i.e., folk songs, song and dance music, rap music, opera music, and folk instrumental music) have never been influenced by each other and absorbed, and enriched by each other to promote each other's relationship. However, from the basic point of view, folk songs are the foundation of other kinds of music. Northeastern folk songs have also influenced and promoted the Northeastern two-man show and Northeastern rice-planting songs. Both draw material from folk songs.

3, the classic instrumental music from the Northeast folk songs

Solo "Racehorse" and "River Water" since its introduction in the early 1960s, popular throughout the country, the sensation of the overseas, and has become China's Erhu classic repertoire. The piece "Jianghe Shui" is an Erhu solo piece that was transplanted and adapted by Huang Haihuai from the Northeast folk song of the same name, "Jianghe Shui", which has a mournful melody like a sob that brings tears to one's eyes. In the movie "The East is Red", a large-scale music and dance epic filmed in 1965, the tragic scene of a blind man selling his granddaughter was matched with the anguished melody of the erhu solo piece "Water from the River", which profoundly demonstrated the miserable life of the Chinese people in the old society. This song and "Horse Racing" are still popular until today. And "River Water" has been selected into the full-time general senior high school textbooks of the People's Education Publishing House. There are also many performers who have adapted the Northeastern folk songs "Lullaby", "Returning to the Mother's Home", "Five Nights of the Moon", and "Look at the Lovers" into violin, suona solo, banhu and jazz, which are very refreshing to the ears. With the development of modernized electro-acoustic bands, there are new interpretations of Northeast folk songs, injecting new life into them.

4. The essence of Northeast folk songs nourishes the creation of artists

The song "I Love You Snow in the North of the Plateau" (Wang De lyrics and Liu Xizin's music) created in the 1980s depicts the northern scenery of 10,000 miles of snow drifting, and shapes the northern people's pure and noble spirit, with a broad and melodious melody. The Fifteenth Moon (lyrics by Shi Xiang, music by Tie Yuan) praises the soldiers and their wives for their dedication to the motherland's border defense, with a beautiful and delicate melody. There are also songs like "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom", "I Want to Write a Letter to the Border Guard" and "Liaohe River Water Goes from My Doorstep", which were loved by people as soon as they were released, and were widely sung and known by every household, and have now become classics that have been sung for a long time. Tastefully, the melodies have absorbed the flavor of the Northeastern ditty. These artists in the process of creation may be intentional, may be unintentional, but the essence of this art has been subconsciously influenced the creation of the artists who grew up on the black soil.

In the new era, "Daliao River", "Northeastern people are living Lei Feng", "Crossing the river", "home in the northeast" these creative songs sung all over the north and south of the river, but also absorbed the essence of the northeastern folk songs.

Created by the Shenyang Song and Dance Troupe, the performance of the large-scale dance series "moon five nights" was issued by the Ministry of Culture? Wenhua Award? and the Central Propaganda Department? Five One Project? Award for dance art. It takes the popular folk song of the same name in the northeast as the main theme, and with the distinctive Guandong dance style, it depicts the survival consciousness of the people of the Guandong land who have been striving for upward movement for generations, and constitutes a colorful, interesting, beautiful and pure-hearted picture of life. The dance drama has been performed in Zhongnanhai, and has been presented in Shanghai Art Festival, Hangzhou Art Week, Hong Kong? Shenzhou Arts Festival? and other art events, and was highly praised by dance artists at home and abroad. Once again demonstrated the spirit of the Guandong people and even the entire Chinese culture.