Characteristics of Dong Folk Songs

Simulate nature. Dong nationality's big song is a folk chorus form with multi-voice, no command, no accompaniment and natural chorus in Dong nationality area of China. Dong people's big songs are known as "the music shines like a clear spring, and the melody sweeps over the edge of ancient dreams". Simulating nature is one of his singing characteristics.

Dong folk songs are different from ordinary folk songs in music structure, singing skills, singing methods and singing occasions. They are a chorus that leads the crowd and sings in harmony with high and low voices. Belonging to folk polyphonic music songs, it is extremely rare in Chinese and foreign folk music. Dong folk songs are not only a musical art form.

Dong people's big songs often imitate the sounds of nature, such as birds singing, insects singing, mountain streams and running water, which is the characteristic of Dong people's big songs singing and the natural source of Dong people's big songs. It is common to imitate the singing patterns of insects and birds in Dong people's "songs of sound", such as cicadas and cuckoos, so that you can feel the affinity of Dong people to nature.

Extended data

1, drum tower song

This kind of Daqu is a duet between the host and the guest in the Drum Tower. If the visiting team is a female team, the home team must be a male team; Otherwise, the situation is just the opposite. The content is mainly long narrative poems (myths, legends, stories, hymns, etc.). ). Because the Drum Tower Dasong is a duet between men and women, there are also many love stories in its content.

2. Loud songs

This kind of song mainly expresses the tune of the song and the sound of the chorus. Adjustable is generally shorter and smaller. Most of the tunes are imitations of natural sounds such as insects, birds and running water, so the sounds change a lot, basically one word at a time. The vocals of this kind of songs are generally interspersed with the vocals of Drum Tower songs.

3. Narrative songs

This kind of Daqu is usually sung by the choir at the invitation of the host. The song is very long and has a certain story. Famous narrative songs include The Beauty of a Pearl and a Mother, The Beauty of Youth, The Far East and so on.

4. Custom songs

One is a song that is sung hand in hand or shoulder to shoulder when you visit your grandmother's hall every February. The other is that guests from other villages come, the host blocks the road at the entrance of the village, and the host and guests ask each other about the duet songs.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dong Folk Songs