The Creation Background of Spring Festival Overture

The Spring Festival Overture is a work written by Li Huanzhi, a famous composer and music theorist in China, based on his life experience in Yan 'an in the 1950s, which shows the people in the revolutionary base areas warmly celebrating the Spring Festival.

This piece is orchestral music based on the tones and rhythms of China folk yangko and northern Shaanxi folk songs. With the theme of the traditional festival "Spring Festival" in China, the author shows a scene of people in revolutionary base areas celebrating the Spring Festival and a moving picture of unity, friendship and celebration.

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The Spring Festival Suite was written in 1955-1956. Based on the tone and rhythm of folk yangko in northern Shaanxi, the music has a lively melody, which vividly shows the scenes of China people's excitement, jubilation, beating gongs and drums, singing and dancing in traditional festivals.

As the prelude to the Spring Festival suite, Spring Festival Overture is characterized by its lively melody. Beautiful and full of national style, the rhythm is bright and warm, which vividly reflects the scene of our people's excitement, jubilation, beating gongs and drums, singing and dancing in traditional festivals. Music structure is a complex trilogy with reproducibility, and it is a subtle idea to integrate a western trend into China traditional music.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia Entry-"Spring Festival Overture"