What does folk music include?

Folk instrumental music is divided into "solo" and "suite" according to traditional habits.

Singles are mostly singles and independent tunes. The divertimento consists of several tunes or independent paragraphs. For example, North-South school pipa Daqu 13 sets and Northern Shaanxi school 8 sets. According to the types of music structure, there are mainly variations, loops, antithesis and polyphony, among which variations and antithesis are the most common.

Extended data

National instrumental music includes solos and ensembles of various instruments and ensembles of different instrument combinations. Different instrument combinations, different tracks and different playing styles have formed a variety of instrumental music. The solo music of various musical instruments is an important part of national instrumental music.

Qinqu Guangling San and Meihua Sannong; Pipa music house of flying daggers and sunset flute and drum; Zheng Music "Fishing Boat Singing Late" and "Western Western jackdaw Playing in the Water"; Suona music "A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" and "Open the Door"; Flute "Bangzi" and "Partridge Flying"; Erhu music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and so on are excellent solo tracks.

Ensemble with pure percussion instruments such as gongs and drums, with rich timbre and strong sense of rhythm, is good at expressing warm, lively and light life interest. For example, preface to the Eight Immortals (gongs and drums in eastern Zhejiang), 18642 (beating southern Jiangsu), kite turning (Guagua Society in Shaanxi) and starling bathing (Tujia people in western Hunan).

Suo Le, composed of various stringed instruments, is good at elegance, lyricism, simplicity and elegance, and is suitable for indoor performance. For example, sixteen boards (thirteen sets of strings), high mountains, flowing water (Henan Bantouqu) and so on.

The combination of wind instruments and stringed instruments plays the music of silk and bamboo, and the playing style is meticulous, showing lively emotions, such as March 6, walking through the streets (bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River), rain beating banana, walking horse (Guangdong music), eight horses, plum blossom exercise (Fujian Nanyin) and so on.

Percussion is composed of wind instruments and percussion instruments, with rough playing style, suitable for outdoor playing and good at expressing warm and cheerful emotions. Such as your legend (playing in southern Jiangsu), Dayuanmen (gongs and drums in eastern Zhejiang), Putian Music (advocated by Shandong) and Double Bite Goose (gongs and drums in Chaozhou).

There are many kinds of percussion instruments, and stringed instruments are used in bands, so the music has the characteristics of silk and bamboo music, such as Fang (played in southern Jiangsu) and Wu (played in Fuzhou). Generally speaking, percussion music popular in the north emphasizes "blowing" and has high playing skills; The popular percussion music in the south emphasizes "beating", and gongs and drums play an important role in percussion music.