Musical Features of Hui Music

The characteristics of Hui folk music are as follows: ① The combination of four-degree frame and elaborate sound in the method of rotation shows that the tune jumps up four times in a row to form big ups and downs, and when it goes down, it takes a circuitous wave style, full of lyrical and lingering charm. (2) the frequent playback and reverberation in tunes. (3) Folk singers use the singing method of combining true and false sounds, which embodies the characteristics of high-pitched Huaer tune, wide range and large interval jump. (4) rich beats, like to use scattered boards and mixed beats. ⑤ The mode varies according to different regions. Hezhou Huaer adopts pentatonic mode, also known as "Shang mode"; Mountain flowers mostly adopt five-tone feather and angle mode, followed by other modes. Angle folk songs such as "I killed a sika deer in the mountains" and feather folk songs such as "I am so handsome". The following are the representative phrases of flowers with distinctive features: ⑤ Most of the seven tones of Hui folk songs contain falling tones, which play a key role in the mode, and sometimes the mode will alternate or go out of tune because of falling tones. Hui folk music distributed in Yunnan, Shandong, Guangdong, Henan and other places is localized under the influence of local non-Hui folk music.