What's the difference between pure music, light music, classical music, traditional music and new era music?

Pure music is a performance without human voice.

The charm and aesthetic feeling of light music are different from classical music and pop music. Moving melody, beautiful harmony, novel orchestration, rich timbre and rich romantic mood all give people a brand-new feeling and produce a unique aesthetic feeling of light music. The music "Charm" played by mantovani Band embodies this aesthetic feeling. Extremely pleasant sound, like intoxicating aromatic liquid, flows into people's hearts, making people cry in their hearts: "It's so beautiful!" The beauty brought by the band's music, such as Over Time, Autumn Leaves and Yesterday, is also difficult to express in words.

Listening to Paul Moria's band makes people feel that every note is filled with the unique romantic sentiment of the French nation, reminding you of the fragrance of wine, roses and tulips. Mediterranean sunshine, lovers' laughter and tears. He showed all kinds of romantic feelings and poems in life, which caused a strong voice. His famous work "Love is Blue" has been a sensation in Europe and America since the 1960s, and it has been enduring for a long time, and it has become a track played by light music bands.

The beauty of james last's "Night on the outskirts of Moscow" is irreplaceable by the original music: with the guitar plucking several broken strings, the grand piano gently pops out the main theme of the song against the bright rhythm of percussion instruments. Then the beautiful mixed chorus sounded gently with the extension of the strings, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, sometimes far and sometimes near, bringing people into a distant and romantic night in Russia. The whole music is dreamlike and beautiful. If listening to a symphony is like watching a drama, then listening to light music is like reading a beautiful poem and watching a landscape with elegant colors, which is pleasing to the eye and refreshing.

Walking into a warm and romantic poetic country —— Talking about light music (4)

Novel and unique adaptive technology

Most conductors of light music bands are proficient in classical music and can play a variety of musical instruments. They are both the conductor of the band and the arranger of music. The unique charm of light music is largely attributed to their creative arrangement of the original music. Among them, the most commonly used technique is to reprocess the rhythm, speed, strength, beat and other musical elements of the original music. It is more common to endow classical music with the rhythm of Latin dance and jazz, rock and disco music, and to strengthen the rhythm characteristics and beat stress of the original music with percussion instruments, so that the form and content of music have a strong contrast. For example, Mozart's serenade is played in disco rhythm, Brahms' Hungarian dance music is played in tango rhythm, dvorak's Slavic dance music and offenbach's boat song are played in samba, cha-cha and rumba rhythm, which sounds passionate and infectious. For some popular songs with intense rhythm, slow rhythm is used to "soften", thus generating new hearing.

Colorful and unique orchestration is another main method of light music adaptation. First, I like to use some unpretentious folk musical instruments, such as mandolin, Spanish guitar, harmonica and accordion. And often let them play the main theme, thus creating a special artistic conception and atmosphere of music, which forms a tone contrast with traditional orchestral instruments and makes the sound colorful. Secondly, I like to use various percussion instruments, such as xylophone, snare drum Jr., jazz drum, tambourine, triangle, bell and sand hammer. Some distinctive folk percussion instruments are also used to make the sound vivid and emotional. Third, by adding electro-acoustic instruments to enrich the timbre of the band and increase the modern flavor of the sound. Electronic musical instruments are perfectly integrated with percussion instruments and traditional stringed instruments to create bright, light and vivid sound effects. Fourthly, the beautiful musical atmosphere is set off by the humming of people without words. In this respect, Zhan Mu Tu Hong Lin is a pioneer, and his band has a mixed chorus. During the performance, with the rhythm of modern atmosphere, moving humming without words and the beautiful melody played by the band appear alternately, one after another, which is extremely beautiful and beautiful. For example, Beethoven's "To Alice" and offenbach's "Song of the Boat" played by the band all added mixed voices of men and women without words, which sounded unique and beautiful.

Classical music, translated from Chinese into "classical music". Some people think that "classical" gives people an antique and stuffy taste, so it was renamed "classical music". According to the definition of classicism in the Oxford English Dictionary, some people call it "serious music". As a result, "classical music" was put on a "serious" hat, which made people even more afraid to approach. But the person who defined this must not have looked it up in the dictionary properly, because the second meaning of serious is defined like this: (referring to books, music, etc. ) Inspire thinking, not just for entertainment. Therefore, we know that the original classical music is different from pop music in that it is profound, thought-provoking and refined. Let's take a look at Longman dictionary's explanation of classical music: music that people think is sad and has been popular for a long time. It can be seen that classical music is a kind of music that can stand the test of time, lasts forever and is deeply loved by everyone. In this case, it is more appropriate to translate it into "classic music". It's just that everyone is used to it, and it's always awkward to change. Let's call it "classical music". I only blame the first translator at that time. I didn't expect "classicality" to bring so many misunderstandings. Fortunately, I didn't intend to translate it into "serious music", otherwise it would really make people laugh.

When we hear the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, it brings us not only beautiful melodies and interesting thoughts, but also the most sincere feelings, which are quiet and elegant, shocking, inspiring, jubilant or sad. ......

The first lecture is about the types and appreciation methods of traditional music.

First, the type and scope of music contained in traditional music

In today's China music, there are not only rich historical resources, but also rich folk traditional resources. These resources are living traditions, attracting the interest of Chinese and foreign scholars. According to China's traditional music theory, China's national music can be divided into five categories.

1, instrumental music

China's instrumental music can be divided into two categories: solo and ensemble. Solos are once again divided into bowstring, plucked, blowpipe, percussion and other categories.

Similarly, ensemble music can be further divided into string Suo Le, bamboo music, wind music, drum music and percussion music. These five kinds of ensemble music constitute the essence of China traditional music.

2. Opera music

There are more than 300 kinds of local dramas in China. These operas can be divided into four categories according to different music: (1) Pi Huangqiang; (2) Bangzi Opera: (3) Kunqu Opera; (4) high cavity. Peking Opera belongs to Pi Huangqiang.

3. Rap music

China is regarded as a country rich in rap music. Rap refers to the musical elements contained in Quyi. The main feature of this kind of music is that it often tells stories in singing. According to a preliminary investigation, there are more than 300 kinds of local rap songs in China, which can be divided into eight categories: (1) drum words; (2) Qin Shu; (3) typing); (4) fishing drums; 5 (Paiziqu; (6) Walking and singing; (7) Zaqu; Ban Yong.

4. Folk songs

Folk songs are the basis of all kinds of folk music. In China, due to its vast territory and large population, there are colorful folk songs everywhere. Generally speaking, China folk songs can be divided into three categories: (1) folk songs; (2) underage; (3) Labor songs.

5. Folk dance music

There are also many different styles of folk dances in China. Among them, (1) yangko is the most popular; (2) waist drum; (3) dry ship operation; (4) lanterns; (5) picking tea; Wait a minute.

New era music

That is, new age music.

New era music style

As for the genre of new-age music, I divide it into three categories: one is direct (such as contemporary instrumental music), the other is collateral (such as adult's alternative, please note that the relationship between collateral and new-age music can be included or included), and the third is known to all people in the world (such as nature and healing). I will talk more about the first two categories and just click on what we all know. There is nothing to say.

Direct class

Contemporary musical instruments

Contemporary instrumental music includes the aesthetics of progressive electronic music in the music of the new era, but it comes from a wide range of emotions and fashions. Radical electronic music emphasizes luxury, precision and grand composition, while contemporary instrumental music is so free that its composition is simple and quiet, and obvious solos are added to enhance its melody audibility. When contemporary instrumental music wants to create a soft and comfortable artistic conception, musicians will use a lot of acoustic instruments. Pianist george winston's records in the early 1980s established the development direction of this kind of music.

Not all such musicians believe in the philosophy of the new age, even though their music is often composed of similar emotions; In addition, contemporary instrumental music can draw elements from pop music, rock music, jazz, folk songs, classical music and world music. After 1980s and 1990s, this kind of music was further blended with other types of music, which made some musicians not limited to modern instrumental music.

neoclassicism

This kind of music has two points: first, it is influenced by classical music; Second, there is no need for the usual classical music interpretation. Many contemporary instrumental musicians are born by playing classical music, but these people do not agree with the rules and regulations in classical music, but break these constraints and find another way, and some directly reinterpret their predecessors' works according to their own ideas, which is neoclassicism. In neoclassical music, besides the influence from classical music, there are many elements from baroque, romanticism and impressionism.

fusion of races

Don't confuse ethical integration with world integration (the integration of jazz and world music) and Worldbeat (the world music with western pop music elements). Ethical integration is generally based on the sound and philosophy of music in the new era, that is, traditional folk music is integrated into contemporary electronic music in order to find a harmony and balance between western technology orientation and nature and national culture. Jazz musicians Tony Sugert and Don Cherry may be the first time to synthesize world music into western music schools; Jon Hassell's famous music broadened the scope of these ethical fusion experiments and contributed to this type of music in the 1970s. Later, he cooperated with Brian Eno, the pioneer of Ambient, in the early 1980s. Gradually, this type of music has become a happy way for many adventurous contemporary instrumental musicians to broaden their musical fields by borrowing fresh rhythms and non-western instruments, while others add contemporary instrumental music or new era music elements to their unique national music. The latter artists include Clannad (Celtic folk songs), Ottmar Liebert (Flamengo), Kitaro (Japanese traditional music) and R. Carlos Nakai (American native flute music). In the early 1990s, Enigma, the dead can dance and Shen Lin introduced the club dance rhythm and mixing technology into this kind of music, and its application range can range from European medieval music to sampled African indigenous music. But even so, this kind of music is rarely likely to have a bigger market breakthrough.

ponder

Meditation (can be regarded as an advanced way of taking a nap). Today, with the popularity of the new era, meditation has become an important way for people to practice in the new era, and at the same time, it has produced music that matches this way. A lot of music in New Age Music is specially made for meditation activities (sometimes it is not suitable for listening to music). This kind of music generally has no obvious rhythm, and the music is smooth and can make the listener relax. Sometimes musicians use some natural sound effects to enhance the rendering of artistic conception.

Solo instrument

This kind of music is usually created by musicians inspired by folk music, and its interpretation is usually pure musical instruments, such as piano, guitar, Celtic harp and even cast dulcimer. This kind of music directly contributed to the successful new era music brands such as Windham Hill and Narada, which guided this kind of music to develop in the direction of impressionism. Many works in this kind of music are quite original and touching. Only then some second-rate music opportunists mixed in, and as a result, this kind of music fell into the reputation of "auditory wallpaper". Of course, there are some excellent musicians who have been showing people the true meaning of this kind of music.

Technical tribe

Technical tribe is a unique variant of ethical integration. Especially in the works of some radical electronic music musicians, they creatively integrate the most primitive musical expression of human beings with the current technical means (especially electronic music technology), and reinterpret the tribal music rhythm in Africa, Australia, North and South America with superb electronic music. Creating this kind of music requires high skill and perception of music. If musicians can successfully combine the above two, the result will be a very excellent work, on the contrary, it will become a poor imitation of the cultures on which this music depends.

(2) Types of collateral

Adult choice

This style covers a wide range, which is produced under the background that people don't want to listen to ordinary pop music but don't want to deviate from the mainstream. This music style is influenced by the fusion of pop, rock and jazz. In most cases, it is mainly instrumental music. Good musicians can create beautiful melodies, colorful instrumental timbres and dynamic rhythms, deviating from the mainstream without deviating. Of course, some of these works are just old-fashioned pop music.

Note: adult alternative is a broad word, not only referring to new era music.

environmental

Needless to say this! I think everyone knows.

Indoor jazz

The external expression of this kind of music is a small performance group mainly composed of acoustic instrumental music. This kind of music has two important factors: one is improvisation, which is more inclined to jazz style; Second, it contains national elements, so it also absorbs traditional music from cultures all over the world. The creation of this kind of music tends to neoclassical music aesthetics and is influenced by impressionism.

electroacoustic

The style of this kind of music often represents the development of music technology itself, but it is different from sampling, synthesizing and copying the original sound with a synthesizer. The composer of this kind of music mutates the original sound, and sometimes even reaches an imperceptible state. This kind of real artists never use the preset timbre on modern synthesizers, but create their own unique timbre. In the avant-garde field of this kind of music, electronic components play a more important role in the overall conception of the work, and acoustic instruments are also used, which adds a brand-new listening angle to the author's technology. Finally, this kind of music has two sides: good works can give people a new world to listen, think and perceive, while poor works will be addicted to technology and ignore the emotional expression of music.

(3) everyone on earth knows.

rehabilitate

Literally, this new era music can make listeners get similar therapeutic effects while listening to music. The structure and sound of this music are mostly taken from modern instrumental music.

nature

Needless to say! Incorporate the natural sound into contemporary instrumental music, so that art and nature can be integrated.

self-help

This kind of music is also based on contemporary instrumental music, and perhaps it is also contemporary instrumental music. Self-help highlights the purpose of this kind of music-let the audience listen to light music to relax.

relax

Understanding and self-help are the same.

mental

Understanding and healing