Characteristics of Yi songs

Yi nationality is a nationality formed by the long-term integration of ancient Qiang people with southwest indigenous tribes in the process of going south. Six or seven thousand years ago, the ancient Qiang people living in Hehuang area in northwest China began to migrate in all directions, and one of them migrated to the southwest. About 4000 to 5000 years ago, the early southward branch of Qiang people merged with local indigenous tribes to form Bo (Pu). Bo is "another kind of Qiang". Tribes such as Liu Yi, Qiqiang and Jiudi were formed in the southwest of China more than 3,000 years ago. They are often called Yue Songyi, Qing Qiang, Shame Kun, Laojin and Mimo in history books. At that time, there were two other ancient nationalities in southwest China-Baipu and Baiyue. After the ancient Qiang people arrived in the southwest, they merged with Baibu and Baiyue for a long time and developed together.

Yi people are good at singing and dancing, with rich folk songs, dances and music arts. They should express their feelings by singing and dancing, whether during the working break or at weddings and funerals every year. Yi people mainly live in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces. Due to the distribution characteristics of Yi people's large dispersion and small settlement, Yi music has a wide variety and different styles, and its content and expression are full of national and local characteristics.

Yi people's song and dance

Up to now, the most popular songs and dances of the Yi people are: dancing on the moon, wrestling with feet, cigarette box dance, flower drum dance, sheng dance, golden bamboo dance, bronze drum dance and music dance. There are more than 30 kinds of musical instruments, such as Mabu, Kouxian, Yueqin, Hulusheng, Bawu, Suona, Little Finger, Bilu, Straight Flute, Transverse Flute, Xiao, Sanxian (large, medium and small) and quadrant. Among them, the most famous ones are the tune of mouth string, the tune of Marco Polo, the tune of piccolo, the tune of Cowherd and the tune of Yueqin, the tune of Leibo.

Yi songs

Yi folk songs are characterized by touching scenes, unique imagination, simple words and thought-provoking, with labor scenes as the main content. Yi folk songs cover a wide range of life. Among many folk songs, the most representative ones are narrative songs, labor songs, ritual songs, love songs and children's songs.

Narrative songs are usually sung at festivals, weddings, banquets and in mourning for the dead. Their contents include the form of everything in the world, the origin of mankind, the migration of nations, the stories and customs of heroes, and many love stories. The melody of a ballad is very short, and there is usually only one phrase. Melody and rhythm change little, and are closely combined with the tone of language, which is chanting.

Labor songs are folk songs sung by labor, mainly including Niushan songs (also known as "Niu Ge"), planting songs and grinding songs. Cattle folk songs are sung by farmers when they plow fields, with relatively free rhythm and strong improvisation. The next kind of songs, grinding songs and other tunes are lively and have distinct rhythms.

Ritual songs can be divided into wedding songs, funeral songs, festival songs and religious songs. Many branches of the Yi people have complete sets of wedding and funeral songs, as well as festival ceremony songs sung during the Spring Festival and Torch Festival.

Yi children's songs are divided into lullabies and children's game songs. Most of the former lyrics have no specific meaning, and the tunes are beautiful, and the paragraphs composed of single sentences and two phrases are the most common; The latter has lively and jumping tunes, narrow vocal range and the most common sentence structure.

Love songs are the most abundant among Yi folk songs, which are divided into short love songs and long love songs. The former is mostly a duet or solo, generally composed of upper and lower sentences, and the tune is soft and lyrical. The latter is mostly sung in chorus, represented by the "four major tunes" in Yunnan. ), in which the "Four Major Tunes" include Haicai Tune, Yam Tune, Four Tunes and Wushan Tune, which are popular in four areas where the Nisu people live, and are four different tunes and divertimento forms.

What are the musical characteristics of Yi folk songs?

There are many branches of Yi nationality, and the styles of traditional folk songs of each branch are quite different. However, you can still feel some sexual characteristics.

On the scale mode, most Yi folk songs adopt pentatonic scale and heptatonic scale. There are two modes. One is based on [[Domsol]] three tones; The other takes [[SolDoRe]] as the backbone of the framework. In addition, the southern dialect area of Yi language also uses two scales with special structures. One is [fashion]; The other is [Solla ↓ sidoremi ↑ Fasol].

Some Yi folk songs often use different sounds to form a unique style.

Most of the Yi folk songs have boards, especially dance music such as "jumping strings", "playing songs" and "three-step strings". The rhythm of short before and long after is widely used. The "four rooms" mainly adopt scattered boards.