What is ethnic Russian music like? Russian music

The Russians, who have a deep cultural tradition of music, regard music and dance as their life, whether it is religious ceremonies or daily celebrations and entertainment occasions are accompanied by songs, dances and musical instruments. The Russian music circulating in our country can be divided into two categories of religious music and folk music, to the style, genre diversity of folk music as the main body; its music is a typical European music system, tonal scales using the European major and minor modes, the weave to the polyphony-based, with a longitudinal, and harmonic music thinking characteristics, unique among the 56 ethnic groups.

The content of the Russian folk songs is very wide, from the subject can be divided into customs and ceremonial songs, lyric songs, narrative songs and dance short songs and other categories. The balalaik is a unique stringed instrument of the Russians, also known as the "triangular zither". When the Russians get together, they often play the triangular zither or accordion, sing and dance, and express their joy. The traditional music of the Russians includes folk music and religious music, and folk music includes ceremonial songs, lyrical songs, narrative songs, songs and dances, and instrumental music.

Ceremonial songs are an important form of Russian folk songs, mostly related to the traditional life practices of this nation, mainly used for wedding and funeral ceremonies, the most representative of which is the wedding song. Traditional Russian wedding, the girl married the day before the family and friends will come to congratulate, and in the female companions for the bride to dress up singing farewell, the song is full of sadness, sad.

Lyric songs mostly express the content of love, melody is very beautiful. These songs are mostly in the form of two-part and three-part choruses, using the natural minor scale, and sometimes also in the form of a leader and the way, the free combination of the voices and adjusted at any time to maintain the balance between the voices, the music style is unique and has a strong artistic expression. The popular "Fisherman's Song" is a lyrical song sung by a leader and two-part chorus, and the lyrics recount the love story of the fisherman's three sons. The high part of the song adopts the characteristic natural minor key, and the low part has the characteristics of melodic minor key, the melody is deep and intrinsic, extremely popular.

There are a large number of narrative songs circulating in the Russian folklore, mostly sung over and over again in the form of one song with many words, with a wide range of subjects. This kind of song belongs to the multi-part chorus, with the war as the theme of the "son died in battle on the frontier", "an orchard green", etc., and the harmony of the majestic, solemn music; also reflect the tragic fate of women and love encountered by the paced maiden "rugged Altai Mountain Road", etc., with the pathos, bleak colors.

In many folk festivals or entertainment parties, warm and unrestrained, lively and cheerful Russian folk dance is an indispensable entertainment program. The music that accompanies these dances is mostly short dance songs sung in solo or duet form, or music played on folk instruments. Russian folk dance songs circulated in large numbers, they are more than the content of witty, funny, lively and bright tunes, the structure of the whole, and can be improvised lyrics, both suitable for accompanying the dance can also be sung alone; dance music tunes are generally derived from folk songs, but there are a small number of specialized dance music, such as "Kalinushka", "Milka", "Akinnochka" and so on.

Russian instrumental culture is also relatively developed, almost all men can play a musical instrument, common folk instruments are "Bayan" (accordion), guitar, mandolin and "Balalaika" and so on. "Balalaika" is a characteristic Russian folk instrument, because the body is triangular, so it is also known as "triangular piano". It belongs to the playing of stringed instruments, on a long flat handle, the front with white bone embedded in the taste of the scale, the handle slightly carved upper, slanting four string column.

The sound box is in the middle of the lower, standing with the support strings of the code, generally four degrees of fixed strings, the shape of the high, medium and low five, six kinds, including the soprano balalaika the tone of the most bright and clear, the tone of the sound of the most bright and clear, and often with the mandolin, guitar, accordion, etc. Ensemble, by the young people like, in the folk circulation of the most widely.

Instrumental music is mostly based on Russian folk songs using melody and flowers or *** decomposition variations developed, usually in the evening with the dance and chorus interspersed performance, musicians often have a high level of performance skills and variations. Famous music has "my dear" "Karabushka" and so on.