What is the only means of transmission of folk songs?

The main form of transmission of folk songs is by word of mouth, there are also some professionals who go to the local picking, and then write down this score, and then sung, folk songs are also the beginning of people in the work life, in order to add a little more fun to the life, or in the work of adding some fun to the song, such as tea picking song.

I. The concept of folk song

Folk song, the most genuine voice of the human soul, is the most popular form of music. It is a kind of non-professional music creation with varied characteristics, regional style and national features, which is orally sung by groups of people from generation to generation and continuously refined in the folk music life of various ethnic groups. China is a multi-ethnic country composed of fifty-six ethnic groups. Different ethnic groups have different language tones, different geographic environments, different living customs and folk customs, which make the melodic tunes, spitting words and rhymes, and styles of emotional expression different, forming unique art forms and colors of each ethnic group. The same song, located in the northwest plateau of the national tone is ups and downs, high and bright, while in the south of the river in the countryside of fish and rice tone is melodious, fresh and beautiful. Due to changes in the social environment and production methods, folk songs have appeared in two different "branches" - the original folk songs and new folk songs.

1. Definition of Primitive Folk Songs

The term "primitive" comes from a term that has been commonly used in the field of biological sciences since the 1960s. It has become a fashionable term in the field of music to describe "original" folk songs. It is a compound of the terms "protozoa" and "ecology". When they are compounded and placed before folk songs, they give a new meaning to folk songs. That is to say, the oral way to disseminate in a particular ethnic group, regional traditional customary life of folk singing.

Obviously, the term "original folk song" human content than we are accustomed to say "traditional folk song is also larger, broader. It includes not only: ① national language and regional dialects; ② oral natural inheritance (family, village, community, etc.); ③ special singing methods and regional ethnic style.

The original folk song is a record of folk primitive culture in the course of human development, is an important part of the "oral and intangible cultural heritage" of the Chinese nation, has a rich and full of cultural connotations, it has a high research value as historical relics. The most important characteristic of the original folk songs is that they are heartfelt, simple and natural, distinctive and eclectic, and the regional characteristics are particularly significant.

2. Definition of New Folk Songs

New folk songs refer to the songs created by the people in modern society on the basis of traditional folk songs, with national style and keeping pace with the music of the times.

The relationship between original folk songs and new folk songs

Original folk songs and new folk songs are both related to each other and have essential differences.

1. The connection between original folk songs and new folk songs

①Original folk songs are the source of new folk songs. New folk songs are adapted and re-created on the basis of original folk songs. Some of the new folk songs have obvious original models, while some do not, but all of them follow the original style of the original folk songs. It can be said that there is no new folk song without original folk song.

②The original folk songs and new folk songs have the general characteristics of folk songs. Generally speaking, these characteristics include the material, melody, tune and so on.

2. Difference between original folk songs and new folk songs

From the conceptual point of view, the difference between original folk songs and new folk songs in the way of creation and inheritance, and singing method is obvious. In addition, they are also very different in terms of their methods of expression, social functions and purposes of creation.

1) Different methods of expression. New folk songs are richer in expression than original folk songs. On the basis of the original folk songs, new folk songs can add harmony and polyphony; they can be sung in ethnic singing style or in American singing style; they can be sung in authentic dialects or in Putonghua; they can be accompanied by ethnic instruments or by piano or even orchestral instruments. In contrast, the expression of original folk songs is relatively simple.

②Social functions and creative purposes are different. New folk songs promote the performance function of the songs, while the original folk songs emphasize the life function of the songs. The original folk songs are largely characterized by self-indulgence in the process of singing, while the new folk songs, on the other hand, are different, in essence, they have obvious entertainment.

③The connotation of the songs is different. The original folk song is the collective oral creation of the masses, does not reflect the personality characteristics of a specific composer, many folk song writers themselves are singers, the songs are full of personal feelings of the singers. On the other hand, new folk songs are written by the composer or a few people, and the singers must base their singing on the music score, and what they express in their singing is not themselves, but the composer.

4) The language used is different. The original folk songs, as the collective oral creation of the masses, all use dialect and spoken language, while the new folk songs are formed in the form of words, and more use of written language. China's dialects and colloquialisms are very complex, they are in natural harmony with the local people's thinking and emotional expression, in which there are a lot of contents that our words can not carry, some words spoken by the people, but our words can not be expressed, and naturally can not be loaded into the works of the new folk songs.