What is Joyful Song?

The Joyful Song is one of the eight major compositions of Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo, with fast rhythm and smooth melody, the whole piece is full of pleasant and joyful emotions.

The Joyful Song is one of the Eight Great Songs of Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo, with fast rhythm and smooth melody, the whole song is full of pleasant and joyful emotions.

The Joyful Song is one of the Eight Great Songs of Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo, with a bright and enthusiastic tune, with many ups and downs, rich in

singing character, and a smooth melody, from slow to fast, indicating the gradual rise of joyful emotions, which is often used in the celebrations, temples and other lively occasions, and expresses the joyful emotions of the people in the joyful festivals.

The piece adopts the variation technique of slowing down and adding flowers, and develops the parent piece "Song of Joy" into slow and middle passages, while taking the parent piece as the main section, it constitutes the variation structure of (A1A2A), that is to say, the theme developed according to it comes later, so some people call it the "inverted variation style".

The "slowing down" is to expand the rhythm of the parent song, layer by layer, such as slowing down a beat to two or four beats, in order to expand the structure. The "flower" is in the slowing down of the rhythm, around the backbone of the mother song, adding a few neighboring tones, in order to decorate and enrich the melody. In this way, it develops into a new type of tune that has a certain contrast with the mother tune, and it is difficult to recognize its origin without careful analysis. This is one of the most widely used melodic development techniques in traditional folk instrumental music. The small ensemble of folk instrumental music "Gangnam Good" is adapted accordingly.