Leiting Drum Performance Style

The performance form of Leiting Drum is relatively simple, requiring only one drum, one board, and one string for one person to sing. The singer plays the drum and the board, talking and singing at the same time. Depicting the scene, characterizing the characters, and discussing the gains and losses are all focused on the singer's mouth, expression, and movement.

The drums used in the Leiting drums are basically the same as those used in other genres. A small drum, a bracket underneath, a drum key to hit, but with other drums in the effect of hitting is different, has its own fixed drum score and routine to set the mood.

Leiting drums used in the board is two crescent-shaped copper plate, called the pear board, in fact, is the ploughshare board of harmony. The plowshare used for plowing was cast in pig iron and struck loudly, and the original plate was ground from the plowshare piece. Nowadays, the boards used in performances are specially made of copper, which has a better tone and a more beautiful appearance. There is also a fixed routine for playing the board, which not only serves the purpose of rhythm mastery by the actors, but also serves to emphasize the atmosphere with the changes in the plot.

The main instrument accompanying the Leiting drum is the sanxian. The three strings are divided into two kinds: the big three strings and the small three strings. Leiting drum accompaniment is used in the big three strings. The big three-string pole long, *** sound box large, loud pronunciation, thick tone, sound farther. Accompanied by three strings can be close to the actor's voice, so that the music and singing can be more integrated. Actors sing a fixed song, accompanied by a fixed song based on the melody. There is no fixed pattern of prelude to interlude, but rely on the accompanist to play according to the requirements of the upper and lower sections of the song, so that the upper and lower singing better articulated.

Leiting Drum has two forms: the middle and long raps and the short choruses. In the book of speech, singing words are relatively fixed; long speech, singing words according to the master of the "Liangzi" (outline) performance. The short cantata has fixed lyrics and a complete cantata structure. Leiting drum music is rich in singing, soft and strong, plate, complete, transfer techniques, is a development of a fairly mature plate changes in the form of musical art. It has four types of boards: the big board, the two-natured board, the three-natured board, and the scattered board. Daban is gentle, stretching, commonly used tunes are [four big mouths] (for the opening accent), [four flat tunes], [bleak tune]; duality board is compact, bright and fast, commonly used tunes are [eight big sentences] (followed by the [four big mouths], for the linking accent), [slow start], [small timid mouths], [learning the tongue], [crosses tightly], [in the water], [two-six], etc.; the three nature board is enthusiastic, rapid, commonly used tunes are [on the word running water], [where the word running water], [where the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], [the word running water], and so on. Where the word running water], [grasshopper ascent], [withdrawal of one-way], etc.; scattered plate exciting, magnificent, commonly used tunes for the [Kunqu tail], mostly as a change of plate for the song when the call scattered processing, or in the three nature of the plate due to the needs of the mood and the use of. The repertoire of the Leiting Drums is wide-ranging and rich in content. In the middle and long bibliographies are "Yang Family Generals", "Hoo Family Generals", "Bao Gong Case" and so on dozens of; short cantos are "double locks mountain", "Fan Jin Ding scolded the city", "Wang Er Sisters think of their husbands", "the big mess in heaven", "copy red" and so on more than 100 paragraphs. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Leiting Drum organized a number of excellent traditional repertoire, and created a number of new repertoire reflecting real life, adapted and performed a new full-length repertoire of "Golden Steel on Fire", "Tongbai Heroes" and so on.