What are the five categories of music?

1, the card song class

The card as the basic musical material, or a single card repeatedly sung, or a number of cards linked together, used to tell the story of the song. The song category and song type are developed following the tradition of Song and Yuan "Singing and Turning", "The Palace Tunes", and the Ming and Qing popular songs. The music is rich, the number is considerable.

The number of songs used in the combination is more or less, depending on the content and length of the story, and each type of music has a strong local color and style.

2, play word class

Mainly in southern China. The singers also play small three-stringed or pipa and other instruments, playing and singing. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been a popular genre. The songs of the south of China were mainly sung by singers who also played instruments such as the small sanxian or the pipa.

The music of the elastic lyrics is of a plate-cavity structure. Most of the songs are melodious, delicate, beautiful, elegant, refined and smooth, with strong artistic influence. Quite a number of varieties in the long-term development process of talents, schools presented. Playing the words of the song performance in various forms, the traditional form of single file, double file and triple file.

3, drum song class

Also known as the drum or drum book. Mainly circulated in northern China, some southern provinces and cities are also circulated. Drum song type of music has a long history, and the Song Dynasty "drum words" have a certain origin.

Actors sing on their own drums, accompanied by instruments such as the sanxian, sihu, pipa and yangqin. The drums are mainly accompanied by sanxian, sihu, pipa and yangqin, etc. They include the woodblock drum, Jingyun drum, Xihe drum, Leiting drum, Meihua drum, Qianxian drum, Jingdong drum, Northeastern drum, Lu'an drum book, Xiangyuan drum book, Shandong drum, Jiaodong drum, Anhui drum, Jingdezhen drum, Heluo drum, and Hubei drum, etc. The drums are sung by actors playing their own drums.

The music of the Drum Song genre is a plate cavity structure. Singing based on the language, according to the feelings of the cavity, according to the word cavity, a song with a variety of board changes, rigid and flexible, rich flavor, the actor's performance of the writing, elegant and popular **** appreciation, by the masses of the favorite.

4, the qin book class

The name is given to the Yang (Yang) zither as the main accompanying instrument. In all parts of China are circulating, such as: Sichuan Yangqin, Shanxi Yicheng qinshu, Quwo qinshu, Shandong qinshu, Jiangsu Xuzhou qinshu, Anhui qinshu, Hubei Enshi yangqin, Guizhou Yangqin, Yunnan yangqin and so on. Some of these songs have their origins in local folk music, while others are imported from abroad but have taken root in the local community. The singing voice of qinshu category is characterized by beautiful and gentle, and each of them has formed its own characteristics with strong local styles.

The structure of the music of the qinshu type of music is a mixture of both the song and the plate. Some of them are sung by one person, some are sung by two or more people, and some are sung by two or more people.

5, Taoism

Named after the Taoist songs (i.e., Taoist priests singing Taoist stories). The origin can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, "Jiuzhen", "Chengtian" and other Taoist songs; but also because of the use of fishing drums, simple board as an accompanying instrument, so also called fishing drums, bamboo qin or Taoist love fishing drums.

Circulating region is very wide, in the north and south of China around the circulation of such songs up to dozens of kinds. Among them, the more representative such as Huaibei Daoxiang, Jinbei Daoxiang, Chang'an Daoxiang, Longdong Daoxiang, Hubei fishing drums, Hunan fishing drums, Sichuan bamboo qin, etc.