What is vocal music

Vocal music, is a form of music that is sung with the human voice. Vocal music is a pleasant, continuous, rhythmic sound made mainly by the human vocal cords, together with the oral cavity, tongue and nasal cavity acting on the breath.

According to the differences in pitch range and timbre, it can be divided into soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, and tenor, baritone, and bass. The range of each type of human voice is about two octaves.

Vocal music includes: American singing, ethnic singing and popular singing, and in 2006, original singing appeared in China. Usually vocal music refers to American singing.

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Development history

China's earliest The first general collection of poetry (the Book of Poetry and the Chu Rhetoric composed by Qu Yuan, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan operas and a large number of other rap arts similar to the art of song are the source of Chinese folk vocal music.

There were more complete songs in the era of Emperor Yao, such as the " Six Dynasties of Music and Dance". Singing at that time was only a comprehensive art of poetry, music and dance, and could not be fully characterized as an art form until after it entered the feudal society, when it really became a more perfect art, and became a favorite artistic activity of people in all ages.

During this historical process, there were many professional singers engaged in singing. For example, Qin Qing, the most outstanding singer and vocal teacher in the Warring States period, was a great singer. His singing voice could spread all over the countryside and oscillate the forests and trees, and he was known as "Curbing Clouds". Another example is Han E, an outstanding female singer in Korea during the Warring States period, whose singing voice "lingers around the beams for three days", which depicts her excellent singing technique and high level of singing.

To the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there are more singing thesis. Such as the Yuan Dynasty Yan Nan Zhian's (Singing Theory), the Ming Dynasty, the father of the Kunqu Opera Wei Liangfu's "Qu Laws", the Qing Dynasty Xu Dachun's (Lefu Transmission of Sound, and so on from the literature in the development of ancient Chinese music history, the ancient Chinese art of singing is mainly based on traditional operas, operas and folk songs.

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