Yun Gong Yin Xun: Only such arrogant music is worthy of Journey to the West.

It is a music without words, but it summarizes the whole TV series;

It is one of the earliest electronic sounds

Yun Gong Yin Xun: Only such arrogant music is worthy of Journey to the West.

It is a music without words, but it summarizes the whole TV series;

It is one of the earliest electronic sounds in China, and reached its peak as soon as it debuted.

It is a tune that all people in China have heard, but many people don't know its name.

At the beginning of production, it was called "mental pollution" and almost died. Many years later, it was dubbed the masterpiece of China electronic music by countless audiences. With music, countless memories have been rekindled.

Xu Jingqing

It is the great soul work Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace. Its composer is Xu Jingqing, the national first-class composer and the chief composer of CCTV 86 TV series The Journey to the West.

The 86th edition of CCTV Journey to the West has been popular all over the country since its launch, and it has been a great success. Many years later, Yunhong Yin Xun also got the opportunity to play in the Great Hall of the People.

Great Hall of the People Edition "Cloud Palace Yin Xun"

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It is said that when Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace was played in the Great Hall of the People, composer Xu Jingqing was afraid to hide in the dressing room. ?

However, this masterpiece, which has been interpreted countless times, didn't even have a name at first, and has always been called "Overture to the Journey to the West" or "Overture".

Its current name was taken by the audience many years after the TV series was broadcast.

Xu Jingqing likes this name very much. It is "kind and appropriate, with a literary flavor".

After listening to it for more than 30 years, it is still so psychedelic, romantic, natural and solemn, just like a masterpiece.

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"Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace", as its name suggests, "This song should only be played in the sky. How many times can people listen to it?"

And can you think that such a great work was inspired by migrant workers knocking on lunch boxes?

In the spring of 1985, one year before the broadcast in The Journey to the West, the crew received news that CCTV was going to broadcast the The Journey to the West 16 episode during the Spring Festival of 1986.

His oral autobiography "I am a composition-Xu Jingqing's dream life" said:

"Since 1982, CCTV has been trying to broadcast Journey to the West. The title at that time was music composed by another famous composer. However, after the broadcast, director Yang Jie thought that this song did not reflect the lively, cheerful and enterprising characteristics of Journey to the West, but was more like a grand opera. She doesn't like it, so she digresses and rewrites a piece of music for 2 minutes and 40 seconds. "

As an artist with a conscience, Xu Jingqing certainly doesn't want to make do with it. Of course, it is not easy to compose music for the famous The Journey to the West, which makes Xu Jingqing rack his brains.

Xu Jingqing in his youth.

After receiving the task, Xu Jingqing "thought hard day and night". His composition is "no less than a woman giving birth to a child, and she has indeed experienced the process of pregnancy, dystocia and even almost death."

First, because this song has no lyrics, the things to be expressed are huge and vague, and it is difficult to control a song to summarize the rich plot of Journey to the West; Second, Xu Jingqing felt great pressure because of his awe of traditional classics, his trust in Director Yang Jie and the expectations of hundreds of millions of people.

Xu Jingqing likes writing songs at night, sleeping in the morning and getting up at noon. However, after racking my brains for three days, I wrote and tore. He didn't write a word. "Because of this song, I really forgot to sleep and eat." Xu Jingqing said.

The so-called wonderful music is natural. When he woke up at noon one day, he heard a string of wonderful music in a daze: "Deng Deng Ding Ding ... Dangdang ..." Two or three migrant workers were humming and banging on their lunch boxes. They don't know anything about singing. They may have learned it from somewhere, and it feels like a certain tune in the countryside. This frequent whining suddenly shocked Xu Jingqing's brain and inspired his train of thought.

This sound, to the ear, is sonorous and powerful, just like Sun waving a golden hoop!

Got it! Xu Jingqing was so excited that he struck the table. ?

"In this way, there is a strong theme at the beginning, which basically shows the tenacity of Tang Priest and the justice of the Monkey King's exorcism; In the second half, I invited a singer to sing the chorus melody of Ah in a delicate and soft soprano, which appeared repeatedly and alternately, cadenced and lyrical, in sharp contrast to the main theme, and also had the illusion of a fairy world.

There are themes and feelings, and the descriptive nature of this piece of music basically achieved my goal. In this way, I kept changing around two melodies, and finished the whole piece in two or three days. "(Xu Jingqing oral autobiography" I am writing-Xu Jingqing's dream life ")

In this way, a classic "Deng Deng Deng" was born from the tune of migrant workers, and a great song was born!

(writing here, I went back and listened carefully. The song 10 seconds from 25 seconds to 35 seconds really sounds like the sound of knocking on a lunch box. It's so nice. )

The music of Journey to the West used electronic drums and synthesizers for the first time. People who have heard this piece of music generally feel very imposing, and they all think that he uses a large orchestra of 50 or 60 people.

Actually, there were more than ten people in the band at that time. When recording, he did double processing, such as ten violins. Recorded two or three times, it became twenty or thirty, and finally achieved a magnificent effect.

The whole music, two minutes and forty seconds, was written by Xu Jingqing with a stopwatch, not a second worse!

Composer Xu Jingqing is the composer of all the music in The Journey to the West. Only this 2-minute and 40-second Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace uses electronic instruments, western orchestral music, guzheng, pipa, harp, triangle, pipe clock, chime of China, African drum (bongo drum), Konka drum, drum set (jazz drum), bass guitar (bass) and vocal music (soprano).

The combination of so many musical instruments alone has an unprecedented king atmosphere.

Electro-acoustic instruments such as the Monkey King's broken stones, quaint guzheng pipa, exotic customs of African drums, ethereal and elegant female voices ... The choice of orchestration is all-encompassing, but orderly, just elegant and gentle, and the water is * * *. Finally, the harp came to an abrupt end, which made people memorable.

Some people even commented that this song is really arrogant.

Just like everything that the Monkey King's Great Sage admired.

Yes, only such arrogant music is worthy of Journey to the West.

As soon as the music started, he knelt down.

? The Journey to the West director Yang Jie and chief composer Xu Jingqing.

We should be thankful that we have such a blessing.

1986, although China has just started reform and opening up, most people in China are still very conservative. They think that songs like Yin Xun in the Cloud Palace are decadent and petty bourgeoisie. How can traditional classic TV series have such mental pollution?

It was a very big hat at that time, and Xu Jingqing was in danger of being expelled from the crew. Under great pressure, director Yang Jie wrote a letter to the leaders of Taiwan Province, saying that she was in charge of the arts.

That was close! We almost lost today's version of Journey to the West. Thanks to Director Yang Jie's persistence.

It's not easy to travel all the way to the 86 th edition of Journey to the West.

Xu Jingqing, who didn't take the usual road, became "the first person to use electronic vocal music and electronic music in TV series".

In 1980s, with the popularity of The Journey to the West, the theme songs of TV series were quickly sung all over the country and even overseas. Where is the way? It has been rated as one of the top ten golden songs by many media.

It can be seen that the song "Cloud Palace Yin Xun" was so bold and advanced at that time, so full of the sense of the times.

Xu Jingqing said in a speech: "Since its birth, China folk songs have been presented to people with strong national feelings. If you abandon your feelings, it is not a folk song and stay away from the people. " "Song is the voice of the heart. The first and most important thing is to express your feelings. If you know who to sing to, you can express your feelings and emotions. "

Judging from Xu Jingqing's works, he has always carried out the purposes of "national sentiment" and "singing is the voice of the soul".

Daughter's Love, Returning from the Buddhist scriptures and Dare to Ask Where the Road Is are all better.

This song "Cloud Palace Yin Xun" is full of rhythm and changeable style. Coupled with the use of human voice, it has a strong sense of narrative and picture:

It is the fearless spirit of the Great Sage of Qi Tian, who is riding in clouds and fog, and fights with hundreds of heavenly soldiers and generals.

It was the five of them who went a hundred and eight thousand miles and experienced the great loneliness of eighty-one difficulties.

This is the all-encompassing appearance of fairies and demons in the form of three worlds and ten squares. ...

Huaili Yan's version of the sand monk.

Now, Friar Sand is gone, the Empress Dowager is gone, Maitreya is gone, the Pleiades star official is gone, Princess Tiefan is gone, King Yinjiao is gone, Niu Wangmo is gone, Che Chiwang is gone, King Huangmei is gone, Elder Jinchi is gone, and Zhenyuan Daxian is gone ... Director Yang Jie is gone.

They pay tribute to the classics with infinite enthusiasm; We salute them with infinite love.

Listening, I suddenly burst into tears: in order to devote myself to the predecessors of art, and my childhood and youth that I can't go back!