What are the characteristics of Chinese style songs

Chinese style, that is, in the song to add some ancient Chinese allusions as a creative background, with modern music to sing the classical flavor, singing a variety of ways. The song style favors the traditional oriental performance, joined by some oriental instruments, through the song tone twists and turns, back and forth, there is a kind of traditional oriental beauty, "East wind breaks 》: the watershed of the Chinese wind! This song set the standard for Chinese style! A Thousand Miles Away", "Smoke and Mirrors", etc.; lyric style focuses on the simplicity of the language, concise and contextual use of the intention of some poems and words, through the use of some of the Chinese rhetorical techniques, such as simile, substitution to express the mood of the song, such as the "blue and white porcelain", etc..

Detailed explanation:

1. Chinese style music mostly adopts the main melody of "Gong Tone Style" (Pentatonic Tone Style is unique to China). (Five-tone tuning is a unique national tuning in China. The names of the five tones are: Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng, Feather, which represent "do re mi sol la" in Western music (there is no "fa si" sound in Chinese classical music). The mode in which the Gong tone is the dominant tone is called the "Gong mode". The milestone of modern Chinese style, "East Wind Break" 2. A lot of Chinese instruments are used in the arrangement of the music: such as erhu, guzheng, xiao, pipa ......

3. Chinese folk songs or opera style are used in the singing.

4. Chinese poems or legends are used in the theme.

Chinese style is a unique Chinese music genre that combines three ancient and three new styles (ancient diction, ancient culture, ancient melody, new singing style, new arrangement and new concept). The lyrics have Chinese cultural connotations, and the new singing and arranging techniques are used to emphasize the atmosphere of the songs. The combination of the nostalgic Chinese background and the current rhythms of the songs produces such song styles as ambiguous, sorrowful, elegant, and light-hearted. Chinese style is divided into pure Chinese style and near Chinese style, pure Chinese style is to meet the above six conditions of the song; near Chinese style is some of the conditions can not be met but very close to the pure Chinese style of the song.

Chinese style allows the scope of songwriting to expand at once. As a music creator, you can not only stay on the emotional basis of modern people, but actively work hard to learn history and Chinese culture, and dig out our national essence one by one, and express it on the songs of mass communication, which is a very meaningful direction.

Everyone has a Chinese style in their heart. It gives people a feeling: when they hear the music, they associate it with Chinese characteristics, Chinese elements and Chinese flavor. These things touch us y. We love and like, like that a song "mixed" with Beijing opera, Huangmei opera, suona, erhu, pipa, flute Chinese wind. Yesterday, they seemed to have just left us; this morning when we woke up, they seemed to be standing beside us ......