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What are the musical features of the famous musical work Jasmine?

Jasmine, also known as coloratura, is a popular Han folk tune in China since the Qing Dynasty. At present, popular areas are all over the country, and it has become one of the most representative and excellent folk tunes in China.

The tune of Jasmine varies from place to place, but the lyrics are basically the same, reflecting the pure love of young men and women. Jasmine flowers in the north often sing the legendary stories of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying in The West Chamber.

Italian composer Puccini used jasmine in his famous opera Turandot, which made it a representative folk song and entered the world opera stage.

The common musical features of jasmine flowers in different places are: four sentence paragraphs of starting, inheriting, turning and combining, with falling tones of "sign", "palace", bass "feather" and bass "sign" respectively. The first sentence is divided into two short sentences, which are symmetrical in structure and opposite in tone removal; The third sentence is a condensed sentence, which does not stop after the sentence and is closely connected with the fourth sentence. Melody ups and downs, twists and turns smooth, tactfully lyrical.

Now people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang listen to jasmine more. The tune is delicate and beautiful, euphemistic and moving. This minor is similar to the general minor, and it is also a single piece of segmented music. The musical structure is also relatively balanced, but it has its own characteristics: the lyrics of the third sentence and the fourth sentence are connected together, and it is difficult to cut into it musically. In addition, the use of syncopation rhythm at the end of the sentence gives people a lively feeling.

Mr. Fei Li, a tape collector, is an old-timer of Yangzhou Quyi. /kloc-0 participated in the compilation of China Quyi Integrated Jiangsu Volume in 1986, and found a gummed record made by Shanghai Beikai Record Company in 1934 in the warehouse of Shanghai Record Company. There is an old song called coloratura, which was sung by Huang Xiuhua, a famous Yangzhou Qingqu artist at that time. In fact, it is also very famous now. This is also Molly's earliest audio material. According to his textual research, this "Flower Tune" is actually an excerpt from the popular song "Double Diecui" which spread in Jianghuai area during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. In other words, Jasmine was widely sung in Yangzhou more than 400 years ago.