Top Ten Must-Listen Classical Music

The top ten must-listen classical music are as follows:

1, mountains and rivers.

Metaphor: bosom friends are hard to find or music is wonderful.

Fluctuation degree of tune: gentle.

It is said that Boya, a pianist in the pre-Qin period, once played the piano on a barren land, but Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, can understand that this is a description of "ambition in the mountains" and "running water with ambition". Boya was surprised: "Great, my son's heart is the same as mine." After the death of chef Hippo, Boya lost her bosom friend, broke the piano and never played it for life, so there was a song of high mountains and flowing water.

"Mountain water" is a metaphor for a bosom friend or confidant, and also for the beauty of music. Mountains and rivers are a song. Since the Tang Dynasty, "Mountain Flowing Water" and "Flowing Water" have been divided into two independent piano pieces. Among them, the song "Running Water" has got more development in modern times, and its music score was first seen in "Magic Secret Spectrum" in Ming Dynasty. The flowing water played by Mr. Guan Pinghu was recorded in the gold record of American space probe Voyager-1, and was launched into space on August 22, 1977/kloc-0, looking for the "bosom friend" of human beings in the vast universe.

2, "Plum Blossom Sannong".

Nicknames: Plum Blossom Introduction, Jade Princess Introduction, Plum Blossom Music.

Source: Magic Secret Spectrum and Taiyin Supplement.

According to legend, it was originally a flute music made by Huan Yi in Jin Dynasty, and later it was adapted into a guqin music. Qin Le's music score was first seen in Magic Secret Music in A.D. 1425. The whole song "Three Lane of Plum Blossoms" is divided into ten sections and two parts. The first part, the first six sections adopt the method of circular reproduction, and the last four sections are the second part, describing the static and dynamic images of plum blossom. Music expresses the feelings of noble people through the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms.

The whole song * * * has 10 paragraph, and it is called "three lanes" because the theme is played three times (upper, middle and lower parts) on the overtones of different piano positions. That is: "plum blossom fragrance, sounding the wind; Plum blossoms and snow; Plum blossom, light and shadow; The fragrance floats and the water is clear. " Music is one of the top ten famous songs in Chinese classical music. It expresses the feelings of noble people through the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms.

3. Sunset flute and drum.

Type: Wen Qu, China traditional pipa.

Legend: Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Sunset Flute and Drum is one of the representative works of Wen Qu, an ancient pipa in China, and one of the top ten ancient songs in China. This song is a big literary scene in pipa music, and the guzheng music adapted from this song is called "Moonlit Night on the Spring River", which spread in Jiangnan area at the latest in18th century. The author is anonymous.

The Sunset Flute and Drum is a lyrical and enjoyable Wen Qu with a beautiful melody. The left hand often uses pushing, pulling, rubbing, reciting and other playing techniques to paint beautiful landscapes. At the beginning of music, drums and flutes are melodious and dense; Then, elaborate the theme of euphemistic lyricism; In the following paragraphs, variations such as expansion, contraction, changing the tone range and "changing the head and ending" are used, and plastic music such as water waves and paddle sounds are embellished in time to express the profound meaning in the artistic conception.

4. Autumn moon in Han Palace.

Source: Chongming Pipa Ancient Music.

Also known as Han Gongqiu.

Autumn Moon in Han Palace is a famous song by China. Originally, it was the pipa music of Chongming school. Now there are many kinds of music scores, which have evolved from one score to different scores, and have been recreated through their own artistic means to shape different musical images. This is a common situation in the circulation of folk instrumental music. The popular forms of Autumn Moon in Han Palace are erhu, pipa, Zheng Qu and Jiangnan Sizhu. It mainly shows the sad mood of ancient ladies-in-waiting and a helpless and lonely life artistic conception.

5. "Spring Snow".

Metaphor: a profound but unfashionable art.

Time: Spring and Autumn Period.

Chun Xue is one of the top ten famous guqin songs of Han nationality and one of the top ten famous ancient songs of China. It shows the beautiful scenery of early spring when winter goes and spring comes, the earth recovers and everything is thriving. The melody is fresh and smooth, and the rhythm is relaxed and lively. According to legend, it was written by a musician of Jin State or Liu of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Yangchun and Snow White in the existing piano scores are two instrumental works. "Magic Secret Spectrum" said in solving the problem: "In the spring, everything knows spring, and the wind doesn't matter; Snow white is awe-inspiring, clean and neat, and the sound of snow bamboo is beautiful. "

6. Yuqiao Q&A..

Time: Ming Dynasty.

Ending: the boundary of the piano.

There are more than 30 versions of this song, some of which are accompanied by lyrics. The existing spectrum was first compiled by Xiao Luan in Ming Dynasty. There are many kinds of spectrograms. "Qin Xue Jin Chu" says this song: "The meaning of the song is deep and long, and the expression is free and easy, but the towering mountains, the magnificent water, the coloring of the axe sound and the sound of sound are looming in your fingers. Music has been widely circulated among musicians in recent hundreds of years because of its accurate and vivid image. Yang Biao is revising the score and preparing the lyrics.

In the Qing Dynasty, violinists omitted the lyrics and changed the tune slightly, becoming independent instrumental music. This song is beautiful and quiet, and describes the dialogue between the fisherman and the woodcutter with the melody of answer. In addition, on 20 12, Daqiao Xiaoqiao Group released the folk music album "Yuqiao Q&A". There is also a song of the same name in the album, Yuqiao Q&A.

7. Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia.

Type: Sao style narrative poems.

Author: Cai Wenji.

Word count: 1297 words.

There was chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, and it was a bonfire year after year. Cai Wenji was captured by Huns during his escape and lived in the Great Wall. Later, he married Zuo and gave birth to two children. She spent twelve spring and autumn years outside the Great Wall, but she missed her hometown all the time.

Cao Cao pacified the Central Plains, made peace with the Xiongnu, and sent messengers to redeem Moon Hee with a large sum of money, so she wrote the famous long poem "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia", describing the unfortunate experiences in her life. Qin Ge has editions such as Big Hu Jia, Little Hu Jia and Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia.

Although the tunes are different, they all reflect the extremely contradictory and painful feelings that Cai Wenji missed his hometown and could not bear to be separated. Music euphemistically mourns and tears the liver and intestines.

Eighteen beats of the Hu family is a lyric poem in ancient Yuefu, with one beat and 18 chapters as * * *, hence the name, which embodies the theme of "Happy Moon Returning to Han". During the war at the end of Han Dynasty, Cai Wenji lived in South Xiongnu for twelve years. As Zuo's wife, she misses her hometown very much. When Cao Cao sent someone to take her back to the mainland, she had to leave two children behind. The joy of going home was overwhelmed by the pain of separation of flesh and blood, and her mood was very contradictory.

8. Guangling Powder

Metaphor: indomitable spirit of anger

Alias: Guangling Station

Guangling powder, also known as Guangling powder. It is a large-scale guqin music in ancient China, a very famous guqin music in the music history of China, and one of the top ten famous guqin music.

That is, the ancient "Nie Zheng stabbed to death". Wei Jia Ji Kang is famous for playing this song well. Before the punishment, he was still in no hurry. Suoqin played this song and sighed, "Guangling is scattered today!" There are three important scores of Guangling San seen today, among which "Magic Secret Spectrum Guangling San" is the earliest and relatively complete version, and it is still often played today.

The whole song is 45 paragraphs. The whole song is permeated with an unyielding spirit of grief and indignation, which is "full of glory and spears".

The origin of Guangling San: According to the Book of Jin, this song was given by an ancient man when Ji Kang visited Luoxi. There is even a legend of ghosts and gods in Taiping Guangji, which is about Ji Kang's good piano. On one occasion, Ji Kang spent the night in Yuehuage, but he couldn't sleep at night. He sat up and played the violin, which was elegant and touched a ghost. The ghost then spread Guangling San to Ji Kang, and Ji Kang agreed not to sing this song.

In 263 AD, Ji Kang was victimized by Si Mazhao. Before he died, Ji Kang was not sad, but lamented: "Yuan Xiaoni studied this essay hard, but she didn't agree with Jingu. Guangling prose is absolutely lost today!" .

9. Pingsha Wild Goose.

Alias: Wild geese fall to the flat sand.

There are many schools of Chinese guqin famous songs, which are intended to write a literati's mental journey from the perspective of geese. It was first published in the Ming Dynasty (1634) Authentic Ancient Sounds. Since its publication, more than 50 music collections have been published, and there are many music genres. Only 1962, The First Collection of Guqin Music, contains the scores of six musicians. The author of this piece of music is said to be Chen Ziang in the Tang Dynasty, Mao Minzhong and Tian Zhiweng in the Song Dynasty, and some people say that it was written by Zhu Quan in the Ming Dynasty. Because there is no reliable historical data, it is difficult to prove who wrote it.

10, ambush on all sides.

Features: suddenly fast, suddenly slow; Sometimes strong, sometimes weak.

Alias: Huaiyin Pingchu.

House of flying daggers is a pipa of Han nationality and one of the top ten ancient songs in China. It is a solo, and the music is fierce and shocking, which clearly shows the scene that Xiang Yu was cornered when he was surrounded by an army. It is a masterpiece of art. So far, there is no definite theory about the time of music creation.

These materials can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. In Bai Juyi's famous long poem Pipa Trip (772-846), it can be found that the author Bai Juyi once heard the pipa music describing the fierce fighting scenes.