Knowledge Popularization of Yueju Opera

Popularization of knowledge of Yueju Opera

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Thirteen major genres of Yueju Opera

Yueju Opera genres, including repertoire, singing, reading, doing and other artistic factors, concentrated in the portrayal of the typical artistic image, in which the singing of the strongest originality, the most prominent features, and the greatest impact, so people call it the genre of singing. The genre singing of Yueju Opera consists of two major parts: the tune and the singing method. In the organization of the tune, each school forms its own basic style through the changes of melody, rhythm, and the plate eye, and in the singing method, the different rhythmic beauty is formed through the changes of vocalization, tone, and embellishments of the embellishments.

The Wang School is the school of Yueju opera Danjiao founded by Wang Wenjuan. Wang's style emphasizes the combination of rhythmic tones and emotional gestures. Wang Wenjuan's singing is simple, natural and smooth, with a strong flavor. In performance, Wang Wenjuan is known as a "character actor", and her singing voice is sincere, with a gentle and gentle delivery and a deep inner strength. Wang Wenjuan's middle and lower registers are rich and soft, and in the key phrases of the cantata, she uses her high notes to highlight the climax of the cantata, creating a strong contrast of colors. Wang Wenjuan's fluttering cadence is very distinctive, with long sentences, euphemisms and twists, and a long and deep meaning. Meng Lijun - Touring the Upper Forest" is a famous Wang Pai cantata. The flamboyant emperor realizes that Meng Lijun may be a woman and invites her to tour the Upper Forest with him in order to force her to do so. Meng Lijun, who is dressed as a man, is careful to maneuver with her in every possible way. The excellent descendants of the Wang School include Meng Liying, Qian Aiyu, Zhou Yunjuan, Shu Jinxia, Shan Yangping, Hong Ying, Li Min, and so on.

The Yuan School is a school of Yueju Opera Dan role founded by Yuan Xuefen. Yuan's singing voice is characterized by simplicity and simplicity, euphemistic and delicate, deep and subtle, mellow flavor. The Yuan School pays great attention to the singing of key phrases, and specializes in the use of spouting, gasping, adding false words, as well as strong and staccato techniques for special treatment, resulting in a climax in singing. The Yuan School's fluttering accent is also characterized by the expansion of phrases, rhythmic staccato, tonal alternation, and structural changes, making the melody meandering and evocative. For example, in "The Tale of the White Snake - Broken Bridge", the phrase "Now, the phoenix and the luan are drifting in two places", through the expansion of the musical repertoire of the head and the length of the phrase, appears to be soft and long. Yuan School's outstanding practitioners include Qi Yaxian, Zhang Yunxia, Li Peijie, Chen Huidi, Xu Qiong, Xu Xiaofei, and so on.

Fan School - is the school of Yueju Opera Xiao Sheng founded by Fan Ruijuan. Fan singing voice wide range, melodic ups and downs, long sentences, good at the use of more lyrical [slow] to reveal the emotions of various characters, tunes seem to be colorful and grandiose; starting cavity cavity and dumping cavity is more distinctive, often through the end of the sentence of the singing of the decorative flower, or the accompaniment of the door as an extension of the singing, so that the singing is more affectionate and lingering. The special artistic technique of directly changing the key without passing through the gate is another characteristic of the Fan School. The Fan School's melodic and lyrical tunes, as the first creator of the "under-string tune", Fan Ruijuan continues to innovate and expand the functions of this tune. As the first creator of the tune, Fan Ruijuan continued to innovate and expand its functions. For example, in the section "Po Lin Lantern - Thinking of Home in the Moonlight", she absorbed the bright and fluent elements of the tune to make it bright and cheerful, and rich in comedic colors, and with the lyrics sung in the form of long and short phrases, and with various changes in tempo, the rhythm of the music became more active. The best Fan Pai performers include Ding Saijun, Chen Qi, Shi Jihua, Shao Wenjuan, Shi Jihua, and so on.

The Yin School is a school of Yueju Opera founded by Yin Guifang. The Yin School is characterized by its gentle and lingering style, its profoundness, its simplicity and timelessness, and its freshness and relaxation, which is a typical style that focuses on softness and contains rigidity in softness. The Yin School's slow tempo is beautiful and expansive, and it is especially good at using large narrative "qingban" to delineate the characters' feelings in detail; when creating the cantata, it mobilizes a variety of artistic means, such as the arrangement of the starting cantata, the use of interludes, the conversion of boards, and the change of flinging cantatas, etc., so as to make the whole cantata clear and distinctive. The starting tone of the Yin School has distinctive characteristics. It starts with a low tone, and the tone is friendly and natural. In different plays, it changes a lot according to the specific feelings of different characters. For example, "Sister" in "Love in the Mountains and Rivers - Sending Letters" has a kind and gentle tone, full of deep emotion and tenderness, truly expressing her love for her beloved. Yin Guifang absorbed the nutrients from the sister dramas and enriched herself when shaping the musical images of different characters. In "He Wenxiu", in the scene of "Crying Card and Fortune-telling", the singing is based on [Sigongqiang], and absorbs and draws on elements of Hangzhou Opera's [Wulin Tune] and Suzhou Playing Words, to create a novel [Fortune-telling Tune]. This tune is a combination of rap and singing, with flexible rhythm, humor and wit. The outstanding descendants of the Yin School include: Shin Guifang, Yin Ruifang, Xing Guifen, Yin Xiaofang, Chen Shujun, and so on.

The Fu School - is a school of Yueju Opera danjiao founded by Fu Quanxiang. The singing voice of Fu School is very distinctive, especially her fluttering voice, which absorbed the characteristics of Beijing Opera's long dragging voice, meandering and twisting, and in order to emphasize the summarizing section and rendering the character's emotion, it is often used to expand the length of the sentence, rhythmic staccato and alternating modes, forming a fluttering voice with a particularly long length of the sentence, and many variations. In "Liang Zhu - Terrace Meeting", the section "Remembering the Two Worships on the Caoqiao Bridge" is sung in the cantata "Ma's family is very powerful and it is difficult for relatives to retreat", the word "powerful" is sung in a heavy tone, and the luck of the six degrees of downward sloping tone is used. After the word "big", stop abruptly, "pro difficult to retreat" on the three words plus flower expansion, in the "pro, difficult" on the use of two short small air mouth, staccato, showing Yingtai indescribable grief and resentment, this is a very good way to show that the Ma family's power is very strong. This is a typical Fu Pai style of fluttering accent. Fu Quanxiang has a good voice with a wide range and a sweet tone, known as the "Golden Voice". When she sings the combination of true and false voices, emphasizing the position of the voice and *** sound, the bass is gentle and soft, the treble area is bright and craggy, high and low pitch articulation is very natural, so that the formation of the Fu School of singing distinctive features. The outstanding masters of the Fu school are: Xue Ying, Zhang Jingyue, Hong Fenfei and so on.

Xu School - Xu Yulan founded the genre of Yueju Opera. Xu Yulan's singing voice is characterized by high spirits, passionate and exuberant, rigid and soft, and gorgeous and colorful. Xu Yulan's common musical repertoire is rich and always repeated in various forms throughout the singing, so the characteristic tones are distinct. In particular, the melody of the starting cadence and the fluttering cadence is colorful, and the rhythm is varied. For example, in the starting cadence of "Dream of Red Mansions - Golden Jade Good Fortune", "Today is the first satisfactory thing in heaven and on earth from ancient times to the present day", the tone rises from low to high, and jumps up to the highest tone on the word "thing". The tone rises from low to high, jumping to the highest note on the word "matter", and then going down quickly, the whole phrase is sung in a range as wide as 13 degrees, giving vent to the character's feelings at that time. The outstanding practitioners of Xu Pai are: Jin Meifang, Liu Lihua, Tang Lifang, Liu Jue, Wang Xiuyue and so on.

Qi School - is Qi Yaxian founded the genre of Yueju opera Danjiao. Chi Ya Xian's singing voice is simple and smooth, deep and subtle. Her range is not wide, but according to her mellow tone specialty, she gives full play to the singing melody in the middle and lower registers, presenting a unique style. Chi Yaxian's singing is not only good at expressing tragic emotions, but can also create cheerful and bright singing. Another characteristic of Chi's singing is that in the smooth melody, there are often downward small sixths jumping into the tone, or sixths sliding down the tone to wet the tone, in order to strengthen the tone, rendering the sadness, grief, and excitement. Especially [clear plate] rise and fall clearly, good according to the tone of the words and feelings of the characters in the singing tone, rhythmic processing, embellishment singing method cleverly carry out a variety of subtle changes in the colorful in the simple, hide the changes in the bland. Chi singing is good at the development of the characteristic tone changes, giving the traditional old opera special colors, such as "Liang Zhu" and "White Snake" is the bone of the old opera, most of the actors will sing, but Chi singing these two plays due to the characteristic tone through which both fully express the feelings of the characters, and has shown a unique color of the artistic personality. The outstanding successors of Qi Pai are: Zhou Yaqin, Zhu Zhufen, Wang Hangjuan, Zou Hong and so on.

Lu School - Lu Jinhua founded the genre of Yueju Opera Xiao Sheng. Lu Jinhua is the best at playing the "poor student", and her performances of "Shoeskin student" and "Towel-broken student" are outstanding. Her performance is elegant, subtle and generous, and her movements are concise and evocative; her voice is clear and bright, with pure quality, simple and smooth tone, loose and stretching, especially paying special attention to the word spit, the sound of the sound to listen to, listen to her singing as if it were a spring of water flowing into people's hearts, refreshingly soft and intriguing. Lu Jinhua's singing voice is developed on the basis of Ma Zhanghua's singing voice, and she still retains a lot of [four-work cavity] factors when she sings [shakutong cavity], so it sounds unique. Lu Jinhua's singing voice has distinctive features, but she does not focus only on form and technique, but always puts the characterization in the center. She always puts the characterization at the center. Her singing and embellishment are all for the purpose of revealing the inner world of the character. The outstanding heirs of the Lu School include Cao Yin Antimony, Chen Wenzhi, Xia Saili, Huang Hui, Liao Qiying, Xu Jie, Qiu Qiaofang, Zhang Yufeng, Xu Biaoxin and so on.

The Bi School is a school of Yueju Opera founded by Bi Chunfang. Bi Chunfang's singing voice is bright and bold, smooth and free, with rough male characteristics. Her voice is brittle and bright, with a wide range and plenty of energy, and she often sings with a syncopated tone pattern, which makes her voice angular and elastic in tone. She bites the words strongly and clearly, and emphasizes the treatment of accents. When Bi Chunfang was creating her voice, she often absorbed the tones of other genres of Yueju Opera, trades and brother operas and melted them into her own voice according to the needs of her characters, which made the voice lively and full of new ideas. For example, the starting tone "Sister Qiuxiang" in "Three Laughs - Pointing at Qiuxiang" is absorbed from the tone of Yan Lanzhen's "Starting Tone" in the traditional drama "Panfu", which is slightly changed to make the image of Tang Bohu's dashing and elegant more distinctive. The outstanding successors of the Bi School include: Yang Wenwei, Ding Lianfang, Dong Beifen, Ding Lianfang, Bi Jifang, Xu Ningsheng, Yang Tonghua, Zhang Zhenying and so on.

Zhang School - is the school of Yueju Opera Dan role founded by Zhang Yunxia. Zhang Yunxia pays great attention to delineating the different personalities of the characters in her performances and singing, for example, she plays two roles in "Flying Phoenix", they are young women with similar faces but very different personalities, one of them is an official lady Fan Chuchu, who loves vanity and is a substitute for the other. One is a rural girl Liu Jingjing, not greedy for glory and wealth, not afraid of power; the difference is very clear. Zhang Yunxia's singing voice in the rich changes in the line, the combination of true and false tone use freely, spit clear, in the "Li Cuiying Suit" in the pleadings of a section of the singing, she according to the development of the character's feelings, with the [shakuhodo cavity - slow clear plate], [slow in the plate], [medium plate], [rapid plate] and so on the plate at different speeds, vividly and meticulously expresses the character of the emotional hierarchy. Zhang Yunxia specializes in playing Hua Dan, as well as Qing Yi, Dao Ma Dan, and Boudian Dan. She gives different musical images to different characters of the same line according to their personalities. The outstanding successors of the Zhang School include: Xue Guizhen, Yuan Xiaoyun, and He Saifei.

The Lv School - is a school of Yueju Opera Dan role founded by Lv Ruiying. On the basis of inheriting the euphemistic, elegant, delicate and timeless style of the Yuan School, the Lv School has added lively, delicate and bright melodic colors. The Lu School's singing tunes are active and changeable, and it is good at using playful small cavities in the middle and high registers, and it adopts a large number of intervals to make the singing melody colorful and full of vitality. In the tone of the Lu school singing often appear 4 and 7 tone two partials, which prompted the singing of the frequent Palace Symbol modal shift; plate use is also flexible and changeable, according to the character's mood changes, through the speed of fast and slow, the rhythm of loose and tight, so that the melody is rich in color, contrasting, rich in layers, with a sense of freshness. In the method of embellishment, various decorative notes and syncopations are often used to convey the inner activities of the characters in detail. When Lv Ruiying creates her voice, she is good at borrowing horizontally from her brothers to enrich her musical vocabulary according to the needs of the content. The outstanding heirs of the Lv School include Wu Suying, Sun Zhijun, Zhao Haiying and so on.

Jin School - is the school of Yueju opera Danjiao founded by Jin Caifeng. Jin Caifeng's singing voice is graceful and elegant, and is strong and soft at the same time. Her voice is bright, natural and fluent, simple in the show style, show in the show of angles, soft and rigid, dignified and generous; biting words clearly, especially pay attention to the rhythm and rhythm of the recitation, with musicality. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, according to her own experience and understanding of the roles, Jin Caifeng constantly carries out new explorations and creations for the singing, especially for the traditional [Sigong Cavity], enriching and developing it in terms of tonal patterns, embellishments and other aspects, so as to make it glow with a new luster. Jin Caifeng's singing structure is rigorous, and he is good at using different board style and rhythm, tone and embellishment processing, revealing the deep waves of the character's feelings in detail, and the performance movements and singing music are tightly intertwined. The outstanding members of the Jin School are: Xie Qunying, Huang Meiju, Qiu Jinyuan, Fan Tingting, Fan Jianping, Zhang Hangying, Chen Liping, Shi Yanbin, etc.


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Zhang School - founded by Zhang Guifeng. Zhang Guifeng's ability to organize the singing is very strong, according to the changes in the feelings of the characters to make flexible use of various tunes, plate style, so that the singing is full of new ideas. For example, in the sixth scene of Bleak Moon of Liao Palace, when Daozong suspects the Empress, he sings "A stone thrown into the water stirs up the waves", which is composed of a mixture of [under-string] tunes in the ruler mode, the main mode, the northern mode, and the free mode, with rich melodies, changing rhythms, and a deep, rough voice in line with the characters' identities and personalities, and with a very delicate delivery. In Liwa's Biography, the "training" absorbs the tones of Shao Opera and fully expresses the character's agitated emotion. Zhang Guifeng is good at choosing and applying different music materials according to the needs of shaping characters of different trades and personalities by adopting an eclectic, flower-to-flower approach. In "Sisterhood of the Xianglin", Wei Laizi's singing of "all over the southeast, west, north and west" was inherited from the early [flat] singing of Yueju Opera according to the character's characteristics of not doing his job and wandering around. This not only highlights the character's personality, but also makes the singing rich in local color. The outstanding successors of the Zhang School include: Wang Jinping, Zhang Guohua, Sun Weijuan, Wu Qun, Cai Yan, and so on.