Brief score of butterfly lovers's song

The violin concerto Butterfly Lovers was completed in 1959 and premiered in Shanghai in the same year. Two composers, Chen Gang and He, were students of Shanghai Conservatory of Music at that time. In response to the policy of "nationalization of symphonic music" advocated in China at that time, they chose this well-known theme, absorbed the popular tune of the same name of Yue Opera at that time, and produced such important plots as Grateful Grass Bridge, Eighteen Gifts, Anti-British Marriage, Loutai Club, and become a butterfly at the Grave.

The creation of this work is undoubtedly a collective creative spirit that obeys productism, but the brilliance of these two composers' creative development in the past 30 years is unparalleled. As an erhu performer of Yue Opera, He is very familiar with China traditional music. Starting from butterfly lovers, his other works can only be said to be smooth and beautiful, and there is no breakthrough in other aspects. And almost every piece of music is inseparable from the framework of Butterfly Lovers, such as Mo Chounv, Peacock Flying Southeast, Gone with the Wind and so on. All of them are based on sad and lingering love stories. Chen Gang's works are also lackluster. In the past 30 years, most of his works are violin solos adapted from folk songs, almost all of which are reproducible trilogy. However, due to his gorgeous and fluent harmony language, the shortcomings of many of his works are covered up by these.

In other words, the success of butterfly lovers is due to He's melody and Chen Gang's harmony, both of which are indispensable. Since the early 1980s, both composers have adapted and rewritten this song many times. First, Chen Gang arranged the orchestration of music, and later adapted a version of the piano concerto. He Zhan Hao was angry and publicly denied all the adaptations without his permission. However, he later changed it to the Gao Hu Concerto of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. In addition, he compiled this piece into a Pipa Concerto, which was recorded by Shanghai National Orchestra. He once took his son to Hong Kong to play this piece with the national orchestra on the violin. Later, it was adapted into a guzheng concerto and also performed in China. There are countless other adaptations or performances.

Butterfly lovers is one of the four great love stories of the Han nationality in China, and the other three are Legend of the White Snake, Meng Jiangnu Crying on the Great Wall and Cowherd and Weaver Girl. Among them, the legend of butterfly lovers is the most attractive oral inheritance art and national intangible cultural heritage in China, and it is also the only Chinese folk literature and art with extensive influence in the world. Since the Western Jin Dynasty, it has been circulated among the people for more than 1,700 years. It can be said that China is a household name, spreading far-reaching, and is known as the eternal swan song of love. Throughout the ages, countless people have been infected by butterfly lovers's tragic love. Butterfly lovers is as famous as Romeo and Juliet.