What is an old-fashioned song (and what is the definition of an old-fashioned song)?

Overview: the following is the understanding and definition of ancient style songs.

Broadly speaking, ancient style refers to a style of melody that is beautiful and dreamy, using the pentatonic scale, traditional instruments (especially the flute, guzheng, guqin, yangqin, and the combination of western instruments such as the piano and the violin) to perform the music, and pursuing a classical and elegant mood, or an ethereal and far-reaching mood. The narrow sense of the ancient style refers to the traditional instruments to music, and the harmonic weave with the piano in the pentatonic scale based on the composition.

Lyrics in pursuit of classical poetry style, combined with parallelism, mainly in order to inherit the traditional culture of the Han and Tang dynasties of an emerging style in addition to a deep understanding of the traditional instruments and the use of a large number of songs in pursuit of the traditional classical flavor, the lyrics of the rhetoric is beautiful and gorgeous, reflecting a wealth of literary interest.

And to the Han and Tang styles as the mainstream on the creation. Should be so to understand the ancient style, it is not simply in the song to add a flute, but the whole song of interest will be the wind of the Han and Tang Dynasty to play out, very beautiful. In terms of the theory of harmony, there is also a relatively complete theory of harmonic composition (I read about it on musicians.com, see Introduction to Chinese Harmony) which is based on the pentatonic scale.

Not that it's only 12356 as such. It should be said that the conditions for composing ancient styles in the narrow sense are very strict. But in a broader sense it is simpler, using the traditional soundtrack, using some of the ideas of classical poetry, rhetoric, techniques, with the edge of the can be called with the elements of the ancient wind. We should recognize this problem, the ancient style It is not only that is a very small concept, but should be a very big concept.