The Influence of a Local Language on the Melody of Shandong Folk Songs

How much influence does a local language have on the melody of local folk songs? I have compiled some information about the influence of Shandong local language on the melody of Shandong folk songs for your reference.

A Brief Chapter on the Development of Shandong Folk Songs

The emergence and development of Shandong folk music culture is quite ancient, as early as in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Qi, Lu, Cao and other countries were built in Shandong, and folk songs were produced and enriched one after another along with the process of human history. The earliest collection of folk songs in China, "The Book of Songs", contains "Qi Feng", "Cao Feng" and "Lu Song", etc. Among them, "Qi Feng", "Cao Feng" and "Lu Song" are the most popular ones. Among them, "Qi Feng" and "Cao Feng" are the records of folk songs in the northeast and southwest of Shandong Province, which reflect the living conditions of the people for more than 500 years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and from which we can realize the dissatisfaction of the people at that time with the exploitation and oppression of the ruling class.

As history advances, the folk songs of the Han dynasty? Liangfu Yin and Dongwu Taishan (Dongwu is today's Zhucheng) in the Songs of Xianghe, both of which are earthy string songs of Qi.

During the North and South Dynasties, Shandong folk songs were recorded, reflecting the knowledge of farming and the living conditions of farmers at that time, including Jia Si Fo's The Essentials of Qi Min.

During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, due to ethnic migration and the effects of war, exchanges between Shandong and the provinces increased, and many foreign folk songs and ditties were transmitted to Shandong, and Shandong's folk songs were spread to the provinces in different ways. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, folk songs became more popular in Shandong. By the Qing dynasty great writer Pu Songling (Shandong Zichuan people) written by the "lucky cloud song" (1715) circulated in the Zichuan area, which has this narrative: ? If you see the cycle of things, now people are not like before, a song a year a change, "Silver Nuance" before dropping, and then rise? Playing Jujube stalks", "lock the south branch", half of the "Luo Jiang grievances", and the emergence of "Zhengde john yard", "play children)) different and fresh. From his dozen? Slang Songs? (fill in the lyrics of the large folk songs), can be seen at that time popular in Luzhong minor tune has more than 50, 60 kinds of, in the southwest of Lu at that time is popular "Hill Sheep", "crying the emperor day", "scrape the ground wind", "in the clouds fly", "wind people pine" and other folk neighborhoods.

In modern times, Shandong folk music is more developed, different subjects, different forms, different styles of Shandong folk songs is rich and colorful, convergence of a learning is not exhaustive, inexhaustible musical treasure trove, in order to inherit, carry forward the province's excellent folk song tradition, we should study and analyze from all aspects, combined with the modern style of music, to grasp the linguistic style of Shandong folk songs is the interest in The main factor influencing the melody of Shandong folk songs is the prerequisite for the interest of Shandong folk songs.

The structure of the language in Shandong

First of all, let's understand the structure of the language in Shandong. Due to regional differences and differences in soil and water, the language is very different from one region to another, and this is also the case in Shandong. Shandong dialect, compared to Mandarin, has a foreign accent? is its characteristic, with a strong ? It is characterized by a strong "groundnut flavor". Shandong is a vast region with great differences from south to north and from east to west. When people in Jiaodong speak, people in southwestern and central Shandong can't understand them, and when people in Linyi, Heze and Zaozhuang speak, people in central Shandong can hardly understand them. Today, the promotion and popularization of Putonghua has a great impact on the local language, although he made the communication between the people close, convenient, but at the same time, also erased the characteristics of the original flavor of the local language, lost a lot of fun to speak the local language, in the search for the language **** sex at the same time, the loss of the language of the specificity and individuality.

The differences in folk songs around the world, whether in the form or in the style of performance is different, there is one thing that can be said with certainty, with the differences in the language of each place has a great deal to do with, that is to say, the differences in the language of each place is to determine the different melodic styles around the folk songs of the most important factors.

One side of the soil and water to raise a person, a person has a person's character. The bold and generous character of the Shandong people determines that the language of Shandong is also bold and rough, and the language structure of Shandong is based on? The language structure of Shandong is characterized by a foreign accent, hardness and impulsiveness. The structure of Shandong language is known for its foreign accent, hardness and impulsiveness, and the structure of the four tones is also different from that of Mandarin. Folk songs originate from life and are expressed in a way higher than language, and it is the different languages from which they originate that form the different styles of melody and tone. Shandong's dialects and dialects are more complicated, only from the larger aspects of the distinction between a dozen, if subdivided into more, the different tonal characteristics is the formation of Shandong folk songs melody and its style characteristics of the main factors of diversity.

The influence of language on melody is more evident in the role of tone, intonation and certain different linguistic habits. Let us look at these three aspects of language's determination of melody.

Tone of the Shandong language

The Chinese characters are monosyllabic, with four tones, the same word, a sentence, due to the different tones used in the bite of the word spit, the meaning of which will be very different.

The creation and singing of folk songs come from the changes in mood during life and labor. We call the songs created during the labor called labor horn; life due to the formation of festivals to celebrate the celebration of the song, we call the rice-planting songs and flower drums; by a number of small songs organically combined together, constituting a large suite, the content of most of the legendary stories, we call the folk song suite; there are some of the transition to the rap music narrative songs, we call the rap folk songs; in addition to the mountain songs, ditties, and folk children's songs and so on. These folk songs are based on the labor and entertainment at that time, the spontaneous formation of the language basis, but the change of the word sound is quite obvious. In the creation of Chinese opera music, it has always followed the so-called? According to the word cavity?

For example, the Linqing folk song "Women's Five Nights":

The sentence? The word "force" in the sentence is pronounced as "pei" instead of "p", which means "real". The word "real" in the sentence is pronounced pei instead of p? in the phrase "实实在". The word "real" in the sentence "实实" is pronounced pei instead of p? In Shandong dialect, the word "实实" was changed from the upper tone of Mandarin to the lower tone of Shandong, so a downward sloping mark was added to the melody. However, due to the language differences, the difference between the bite of the word in the south-west of Shandong, Luzhong, Lubei, Jiaobei and other regions is not the same.

For example: Heze folk song "Little Five Shifts"

This is a folk song in southwestern Lu, belonging to the life class folk songs, from the melody of the song you can learn the style of the local language, such as: ? Yī? , which is pronounced yī in Mandarin and yǐ in south Lu dialect, ? Mian? is pronounced mi?n in Mandarin and mi?n in Lunanese, ? Gē. Therefore, the language style of LuXiNan determines the characteristics of the melody of LuXiNan folk songs, in the case of the normal non-inverted words, plus the sliding tone, the wave sound and other decorative sounds, so that the melody is closer to the life of the local people in order to listen to the local people to understand, and thus also formed a unique school style.

Let's take a look at the Jiaodong folk songs. The language of Jiaodong is very different from that of the mainland, and they have a lot of paediatric tones, and there is a lot of lubrication in the language, and the difference in intonation is also very far.

For example, the Jiao County folk song "Catching up with the market"

Pronounced in Mandarin and read in Jiaodong

Tian: tiān ti?n

Zhuang: zhuāng zu?ng

Ge gē gu?

Kamala li?n liān

Where the ? The words "heaven", "earth", and "earth" in the Chinese character The name of the company is "Tien", which means "sky" and "sky". Chuang? and ""、 ""、 """ Jie? What are you doing here? Gao? What are you doing here? sickle? are all added with the character for child, constituting a characteristic paedophonic sound, and the tone is also very different from that of Mandarin and Lusitanian. When sung, it has a kind of slippery feeling, and the decorative sounds are added to meet the needs of the language characteristics, so that the national style is more intense.

Shandong regional language tone

The tone of voice, tone and intonation of people's speech is called tone. He is inseparable from the tone of the words, and from the tone of the high and low, long and short, strong and weak, broken, we can also appreciate the rich emotional color of the changes, such as: joy, anger, sadness, happiness and so on. Shandong language intonation more downward.

This is a more typical example of a descending phrase, where the second half of each phrase begins to descend, and the end of the phrase is the falling tone pattern of ?2165?, which is more common in Shandong folk songs. For example, the falling tone of "Guess the Tune" is the same as that of "Yimeng Mountain Minor Tune", the falling tone of "Jasmine Flower" is ?5165?, and the falling tone of the end of each phrase of "Hanging the Red Lanterns" is ?2155?, etc. This is a major feature of Shandong language. This is a major feature of Shandong language? The tone at the end of the sentence falls.

There is also a major feature of the language of Shandong folk songs, is the tone accent. Shandong language is characterized by the use of heavier language, the voice is brighter, the tone of the emphasis on the sound more, the formation of Shandongization? The language of Shandong is characterized by heavier phrases, brighter voices and more emphatic tones, forming a Shandongized foreign accent.

For example, the Pingdu folk song "Heini as a daughter-in-law"

This song is a story of a black mountain ditch in Dazeshan, a black girl was raised, black from head to toe, and her parents were so worried that their heads turned white, and eventually, the black girl found her black son, and she became a pair of black children with a lot of joy. Many of these words are aggravated, for example: ? Gou? is added with an upward sliding tone, ? head? from the upper glissando of 5 to 6, forming the tone witty and humorous folk song style, from these words portrayed a character image, as active and interesting as storytelling. If they were written in a mechanical four-tone tone, they would be dull and dry, with no storytelling significance whatsoever. There are many other Shandong folk songs like this, for example, the Leiling folk song "Big Truth", the Huimin folk song "Greedy Sister-in-Law" and so on, all of which are very story-rich and vivid folk songs.

Shandong language habits

In the many dialects, there are many linguistic habits can not be ignored, which is the main factor affecting the melody of the folk songs, such as paediatric sounds, verbal language, unique auxiliary words, idioms and so on.

For example: "Catch the market" this song is especially much paediatric tone, if this does not add the paediatric tone, there are many less humorous features, there is no taste of the tone of the Jiaoxian.

Another example: Lingxian folk song, "There is something in the sky?

This is a playful children's song circulating in the area of Lingxian County in the north of Shandong Province.

This is a playful children's song circulating in Lingxian, north of Lu. The Mandarin language was implemented. What? The song was written in Mandarin. Star? What's going on? What? What? Water? What's the matter? toad? and other words have been paediatricized, and the use of this kind of small rut reflects the innocent and playful tone of the local language in children. If you do not add children's sounds, will feel unnatural, more like children's language.

For example, the Cangshan folk song "Embroidered Lotus Bag"

? The first is that it is not a good idea to use the word "good" in the context of a child's language. These liner notes are essential in the language habits, which is the local people's language must be added to the customary tone, so in the folk song more reflective of the daughter's playful, shy demeanor, these words in the singing of the important light, to be soft, to have a taste. It is also with these liner notes, false words, will be more intense local characteristics with the song to the audience.

Shandong folk songs, due to the different tones, intonation and customary language, making it unique, for the garden of folk songs to cultivate different varieties of flowers, so that the Shandong folk songs blossomed, giving people different tastes and joy. At the same time of popularizing Putonghua, I personally think that some languages with national characteristics should be retained appropriately, so that it can serve our national music, because only individuality has value, don't sing folk songs into a thousand and one, let's keep this wonderful source of folk songs and create more, richer, and more national characteristics of the songs. Shandong folk songs in the Chinese folk song family is only a small member, but we should start from a small member, for our country's rich treasure trove of folk songs to add splendor.