Music is like Liang Zhu telling stories with music.

Recommended-national treasures of national music: (Mu Zai conducting) and (Su Sanqu)

Conductor Mu —— China's First Symphony Based on Peking Opera Music

There used to be a saying that it was played with western orchestral orchestration and a few national musical instruments. The performance was directed by Yu Long, artistic director and chief conductor of the Central Orchestra. He is skillful and confident in conducting, and can give full play to the appeal of the orchestra whether he plays lyric or dramatic passages. This newly established orchestra can achieve such impressive results after short-term training in Yu Long, which is enough to prove Long Yu's superb conducting skills. What's more, the works performed are all works with pure national flavor and national integrity, so the conductor and orchestra are comfortable in emotional input and musical expression. It is undoubtedly the most authentic and authoritative explanation that China people play the best orchestral music in their own country. It is also a successful attempt to adapt the melody of national quintessence Peking Opera into a large orchestra.

Performance: Conductor of China Central Symphony Orchestra: Hu Bingxu Recording Time:1September, 1992 Recording Location: The recording studio music of Beijing Nongying Studio is based on the story of the traditional opera "Mu Sitting in the Town" and is composed with Beijing opera music as the basic material. The content of the music describes the historical story of Mu, an ancient heroine, who heroically killed the enemy and defended her country. The whole song is divided into four paragraphs.

The first paragraph: Introduction-Tian Bo House recalls the past and describes the memories of old Mu Guiying's fighting career in previous years. The introduction of the first eight bars of the music is magnificent, like a historical monument. It was written with the change of the Peking Opera tune "Dianjiang Lip", and then imitated the suona tune "Shui Long Yin" with three trumpets, creating the opening atmosphere of the martial arts drama. Then, the low lead of the Beijing opera drum leads to the Xipi lead of the violin performance, which shows Mu's complicated and excited mood. After the introduction, he officially entered the theme of Mu, rose to a high point again and again, and fell silent after a connecting sentence. The fighting power of weak trumpet and timpani rhythm comes from afar. After the expansion of "plucking the strings", the combat memory gradually became clear. Suddenly, the collision of swords and guns and cruel killing were shown, and the band reached its climax in fierce fighting. After that, the music came back to reality in the faint sound of flute and clarinet, like a flute, and finally ended in the lonely singing of the first violin.

The second paragraph: After the sudden strong chord of Liao soldiers' invasion, the "rapid wind" of Beijing opera drums sounded and the situation was urgent. Liao Bing's theme material is taken from black-headed voices. On the background of rapid strings, the arrogant copper tube shows the cruel image of iron hoof, burning and looting, and the music suddenly stops in extreme tension, leaving a trembling bass and scattered harp dripping, like a broken mountain and river, a desolate scene. Silent strings play the theme of people's pain in vibrato, and after repeated, they become tight-pulling and slow-singing music based on high notes, showing that people rise from a pool of blood with hatred.

The third paragraph: recitative, written by interweaving theme motivation and leading tone. The rhythm is relatively free, which describes Mu's inner contradictions. On the one hand, he fought for years, his relatives died, and he resented the injustice of the emperor; On the other hand, he faced the enemy's situation and brought disaster to the country and people. After fierce internal conflicts, he finally put the righteousness above everything else, put aside the past, and resolutely stood up and joined forces against the enemy. Xi Pi's "Flowing Clouds and Flowing Water" describes her mood from hesitation to firmness. In the rest and silence of the whole band, Mu Guiying made his own choice and played two crisp tambourine solos. The idea of this song comes from the famous sentence "I don't command who commands?" Who will command if I don't lead the army? " Writing is also the dominant idea of the whole song.

The fourth paragraph: In the paragraph of going to war, the themes of introduction, horn, human suffering and revenge are all reproduced one by one. Thunder-like drums and the sound of war drums come and go, which seems to be a spectacular sight of a group of heavily guarded troops, flags covering the sky, and marshals raising their accounts. The enemy troops are marching into the battlefield with the theme of Mu Guiying.

CICI? Su San Suite

CICI?'s "Su San Suite" is adapted by the composer according to the music of his own ballet "The First Solution of Women", and its main music material comes from the Peking Opera "Yu Tang Chun", especially the most famous play "Su San Chu Jie". This is also a successful attempt to adapt the melody of the quintessence of Chinese Peking Opera into a large orchestra. The composer tried to reproduce several scenes of the heroine Su San's life through music to show the unfortunate experience of this ordinary China civilian in feudal society. China's famous Peking Opera aria was adopted in the music, and it was skillfully integrated with western orchestral instruments, which vividly shaped the image of Susan.