The genre of folk songs can be divided into three categories: chant folk songs and what?

The genre of folk songs can be divided into three categories: chant, folk songs and minor.

1, chant: (also known as labor chant) chant has a form of singing that leads the crowd. The rhythm of songs is unified with the rhythm of labor, and the rhythm of melody is fixed. Generally speaking, when singing, it is improvisation for the lead singer, and in the form of lining words for Andhadhun. Songs can be divided into farm songs, engineering songs, forestry songs, boatman songs, handling songs and workshop songs.

2. Folk songs:

When people go up the mountain to chop wood, work in the fields, graze in the wild, and stop to have a rest, in order to express their inner feelings, or to convey affection to distant people and answer questions, they all improvise, and most of them are performed outdoors. It is straightforward, simple and free, and at the same time, the melody fluctuates greatly, and the upper and lower sentences are mostly used, and the sentences are multi-dual. It can be roughly divided into mountain climbing, folk songs, Xintianyou, Huaer, Hakka folk songs and Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi folk songs.

3, minor:

Folk songs sung in people's daily life, such as rest, entertainment, assembly and other occasions, that is to say, all kinds of small folk songs except labor songs and folk songs can be classified into this category. Minor is often sung by professional or semi-professional artists, which has a wide spread, even rhythm and rich melody, and the lyrics mostly use long and short sentences.

Extended data:

China ancient folk songs are a kind of oral creation full of vitality, and their excellent works have high artistic value. On the contrary, the artistic value of most modern China folk songs is very low. In the history of China literature, folk songs are the ancestor of poetry and literature, and they are one of the sources of writers' creation. Four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems, words, songs and other literary genres all originated from ancient folk songs and were adopted by writers.

China's national folk music is an ancient and evergreen towering tree in the world's national music forest, and it is the pride of our Chinese people. It stands proudly in the east of the world with its rich and splendid flowers and fruits, profound and long historical traditions and unique and diverse color characteristics.