Shanxi eight sets of playing instruments some what

Folk drumming and blowing music. Because there are eight large sets of songs and named, referred to as "eight sets", mainly circulated in Shanxi Province, Wutai, Dingxiang, Xinxian, Yuanping, thieves County and other places. Eight sets of historical origins have not seen accurate records, according to the old artists recall, at least in the early Qing Dynasty has been formed in the folk, the early twentieth century, reached a peak stage, the thirties to the forties, due to the invasion of the Japanese invaders, so that the kind of music has been seriously damaged, a lot of sheet music (which includes a part of the lyrics of the work of the rule of music) and the relevant textual information is scattered, the performance has gradually faded down. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the party and the people's government of the heritage of the importance of the eight sets of sound can be rescued and preserved.

The eight sets are mostly used for folk wedding, funeral, joy, celebration and temple occasions, by the local professional folk music organization "drum room"

(also known as "ringing beat", "drums class

(also known as the "drums" and "drums"). During the Spring Festival, folk stilts, running cars, dry boat show, also commonly used in the eight sets of music as accompaniment. In addition, they also play and entertain themselves in their spare time. Eight sets of religious music has also been absorbed by the Wutai Mountain Green Temple, playing in the Zen Buddhist chanting ceremony.

The eight sets are traditional large-scale instrumental suites, each set by a number of pieces of music in a fixed order of performance, often with the name of each set of the first hundred pieces of music for the name of the suite. Such as "Dressing Table" suite "Dressing Table", "Willow shake gold", "to spring", "to summer", "flowers", "to winter", "moon", "high", "Western Tibetan", "to the fall" of nine pieces of music. The remaining seven sets are named "Song of the Green Sky", "Push the Wheel", "Twelve Floors", "Scolding the Fisherman", "Proverbs", "Goose Lang", and "Counselor's Cup". Eight sets of tunes pick source is mainly folk instrumental music, in addition, there are some from the Wutai Mountain temple music and local folk songs.

The orchestra of the eight sets of compositions, in addition to the "cursing the fisherman" set with a bass, soprano two suona leader, the remaining seven sets are to pipe (one to two people) playing, **** it wind instruments are sea flute, flute, sheng (two people); percussion instruments are drums, drums, cymbals, cymbals, gongs, gongs, gongs, gongs, bang bang, and so on.

The repertoire of the eight variations of this tune, "k" tune, where the word tune fingering accounted for the Cang position, called the "big three because" blowing a small song, chaotic bombing with the work of the word tune; funeral with the tune; the small where the word tune, the tune of the plum blossom is rarely used.

The main features of the structure of the eight sets of suites are as follows: First, the whole song to slow, medium and fast sequential speed throughout the speed of the different levels of speed to arrange the suite to show the overall structure of the unfolding, the end of the strengthening of the song in the linkage of the logic of the musical movement. Second, the termination of each tune (or coda) is often a basic fixed melody or gongs and drums throughout, in addition to marking the structural division between the song cards, to strengthen the unity of the suite of melodic material. Third, the suite of songs within the song card linked in the same palace system within the tonal system (except for the "Goose Lang" set).

Eight sets of pipes playing common techniques in addition to vibrato, glissando, hit the sound, pad sound, spit sound, flower tongue sound, drum sound, xiao sound application is very much to be point.