The tune of Yueyang ancient painting drama

The vocal cavity of Yueyang Opera can be divided into three categories: gong cavity (beating gong cavity), special gong cavity Sanqu and piano cavity. Hunan, collectively known as Sichuan tune, with stringed instruments such as urn and piano, evolved from the combination of foreign accent and local dialect.

The accompaniment instruments of Yueyang ancient painting opera are mainly urn Qin (changed to ancient painting drum after 1950s) and suona, and most of its ideas of cutting cards and gongs and drums come from Baling opera.

Yueyang ancient painting opera and Changsha ancient painting opera are collectively called "Gong Opera". "Gong cavity" is also called "Gong cavity", that is, when singing, it is accompanied by gongs and drums, regardless of strings and voices. Before liberation, Jingzhou ancient painting drama was accompanied by gongs and drums, and the voices helped each other. Wenchang's accompaniment was only added in the 1950s. On the basis of local gongs and drums such as [Mupi tune], [Troy tune], [Ciqi tune], [Liu Si tune] and [Batong brand], the ancient painting dramas in Yueyang and Changsha absorbed some banqiang music from urchins, forming a combined structure of [guide board], [third-rate], [emergency board] and [scattered board].

Yueyang ancient painting opera and Changsha ancient painting opera also have a third tune called "minor", which is local Han folk music with strong local color. For example, folk songs such as "Tea Picking Tune", "Looking at Mother Tune", "Inverted Tune", "Four Seasons Green", "Lotus Picking Boat Tune" and "Vegetable Washing Heart". However, some classical gongs and drums in the Han Dynasty were also used as music to cut the field, such as "Wan Nianhuan", "A Flower", "Moth", "Victory Order", "Liu" and "Beside the Dresser". Yueyang ancient painting drama and Changsha ancient painting drama have become independent dramas. The earliest performance was "Erxiao" with few plots, that is, the "Sanxiao" song and dance drama, which was ugly all its life, mostly used local minor, and later influenced by dramas such as Han Opera, it performed plays with strong plots and more characters. Because of the low drama level of minor, they absorbed the Han tunes which are adjacent to it and similar in language and pronunciation, and formed the later "Qin tunes" or "Sichuan tunes" and some "Gong tunes". And in the process of long-term stage performance, local music has been integrated, and the melody characteristics are relatively fixed. The ancient painting opera house called it "the right tune". The formation of "orthodox tune" makes up for the deficiency of minor and the combination of music and cards, which makes the ancient painting opera have the musical conditions for performing this drama. Whether it's "Shaanxi Opera" or "Sichuan Tune", Heizi is accompanied by drums and other strings, and his pronunciation is gloomy and simple.