What are the timbre characteristics of guzheng?

Guzheng has beautiful timbre, wide range, rich playing skills and strong expressive force, so it is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people.

As early as the Warring States Period from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century BC, it was widely circulated in the area of Qin (now Shaanxi) at that time, also known as Qin Zheng. Counting, it has a history of more than 2500 years.

The appearance of the guzheng is a rectangular wooden sound box, and the string frame "Zheng column" (that is, wild goose column) can move freely, and five sounds are arranged in one string. At first, there were the most 25-string zithers (Zheng was divided into Zheng), and there were 13 strings in Tang and Song Dynasties, and then it increased to 16, 18 and 2 1 string. At present, the most commonly used specification is 2 1 string;

Generally, the models of guzheng are preceded by S 163-2 1, where S stands for the S-shaped Moon Mountain, which is Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin * * *, 163 stands for the length of guzheng, and 2 1 stands for the number of strings of guzheng.

Extended data

The traditional playing method of guzheng is to pluck the strings with the four fingers of the right hand, namely, the big finger, the middle finger and the ring finger, so as to play the melody and master the rhythm. The left-handed playing method is also to adapt to the tension of strings and control the changes of chords to adjust the pitch and improve the melody.

representative works

1, "Shooting Drum at Xiangshan" is a guzheng piece composed by China guzheng player Qu Yunyu 1980. Music consists of traditional pieces of Xi's ancient music, such as Fish Cake, Liuqingniang and Xiangshan Drum Shooting. It depicts the annual "Incense Festival" in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, with profound connotation.

It shows the piety and lofty ethereal artistic conception of pilgrims, and also shows the lively scenes of drums and music, roaring songs and people going into the mountains to worship. It is one of the representative tracks of Shaanxi Zheng School.

2. Western Western jackdaw, the famous Chaozhou Zheng Song, is one of the top ten suites of Chaozhou music. This song has a beautiful melody, fresh style and unique charm. Known as Chaoshan's "State Song" (Chaoshan, roughly referring to Chaozhou House), it is the most poetic of the ten major songs of Chaozhou string poem Rouji.

3. Snow Mountain in the Spring Dawn is a guzheng solo composed by Fan Shang 'e and Ge Sang Daji at 198 1. This song depicts the beautiful spring scenery in Tibet Plateau, and expresses people in Xizang's incomparable love for his hometown and longing for a better and happier life.

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