Characteristics of Northwest Folk Songs

Its musical language is concise, its musical image is vivid and vivid, and its expression techniques are rich and varied. Common folk song genre materials are: labor songs, folk songs, minor, children's songs, folk songs and so on. Among them, "Huaer" and "Xintianyou" are the most representative.

Huaer is a popular folk song in Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia. Its basic characteristics are: high and long melody, singing with falsetto or true and false voice.

Its rhythm is free, simple and generous, high and long. The sentence structure is very special. Generally, there are two sentences in each section, and two sentences have a rhyme. The next section may or may not change. The first sentence is exciting, comparative, and the next sentence is topical. A short song may have only one paragraph, or it may be dozens or even hundreds of paragraphs.

Extended data

In the local area, people are used to standing on slopes and at the bottom of ditches, shouting or talking at a distance. Because of this, they often play their voices for a long time, thus forming the rhythm of free evacuation between high and low, and their singing shows the natural landscape, social features and people's spiritual world in northern Shaanxi with a high concentration.

Xintianyou is an ode to life and love by the people of northern Shaanxi. Its eternal vitality comes from endless love and affection on the vast loess plateau. A trip to the blue sky, white clouds, yellow land and heaven is the most beautiful scenery in northern Shaanxi. ? Yulin is the hometown of Xintianyou. Xintianyou is another name of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, with lingering tunes, beautiful melodies and profound lyrics.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Northwest Folk Songs