The Land and the Song Book Notes 8

There are three main representative categories of chronological folk songs: the December style, the Four Seasons style, and the Five Shifts style. As the name suggests, they refer to the style of singing folk songs in which the months, seasons, and shifts are used as time units. The chapter I read this time, "Sequential Folk Songs and the Cultural Tradition of Moonlighting," focuses on the historical origins and basic narrative mode of the "sequential style" to describe the musical style characteristics of these three types of folk songs in circulation.

After a general understanding of the three types of folk songs, it is enough to see that these different types of songs have maintained their unique musical temperament throughout the millennia of transmission, reflecting the aesthetic principle of "unity and diversity". The "body" and "style" of the folk song culture show its musical essence, which is gradually maturing and adding new elements to the folk song works, which is exactly the aesthetic principle that the author mentioned the folk song must have. Among the three types of folk songs, the moonlight cultural tradition is the earliest and most widely circulated of the "time sequence styles", and there are many types of narrative modes, such as the flower pairing style, the tea picking style, the Meng Jiangnu style, the embroidered purse style, etc., all of which are based on the moonlight season as a sequence and various activities, thus expressing the emotional color of the folk songs in a variety of activities, which makes this type of music rich in humanistic and cultural characteristics. music is rich in humanistic and historical values.

The seasonal folk songs are minor keys, and their tunes often express certain emotions in a condensed and generalized way, either softly, sadly, or cheerfully. The lyrics are more metrical and artistic than those of the mountain songs and trumpets. It is precisely this fusion of folk life and music, reflecting real emotions, that gives traditional Chinese culture a dynamic way of expression. In the long history of Chinese folk songs, each genre is inseparable from the social and cultural background of the examination, today, researchers and scholars have been committed to the relationship between music and culture, in order to be able to explore the values that music brings to people.