China's beautiful and moving folk stories

The story of butterfly lovers:

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhu Yingtai disguised as a man and went to Hangzhou (Nishan in Sichuan Opera) to study, and Liang Shanbo in Lu Yu became brothers and classmates for three years because of the same interests.

After that, Zhu Yingtai returned home, and before leaving, he asked his wife to marry Liang Shanbo. Eighteen to send, Zhu Yingtai to "sister". Liang Shanbo was informed and proposed to Zhujia. At this time, Zhuya Gongyuan had married Ma Wencai, the son of Ma Taishou.

Liang Zhu and his wife met in the balcony. After that, Liang Shanbo came home sick and died. When Zhu Yingtai was newly married, the sedan chair made a detour to Liang Shanbo's grave to pay homage. Thunder cracked the grave and Yingtai entered the grave. Liang Zhu become a butterfly double dance.

Extended materials

The Pipa Concerto "Butterfly Lovers" takes the well-known folklore as the theme, and draws on the tunes in the Yue Opera as the material. The three main plots, namely, "Worship on the Grass Bridge", "Anti-marriage of Yingtai" and "become a butterfly at the Grave", serve as the presentation, expansion and reappearance of the music.

The music is in the form of a pipa concerto, which not only displays the rich expressive force of the pipa, but also integrates the symphonic nature of the national orchestral strings. Especially in the structure, according to the needs of the content, the sonata form in the western concerto is used to properly show the dramatic contradictions and conflicts, and this sad love story passed down in the south of China is narrated in the flowing notes.

In terms of artistic treatment, it focuses on absorbing rich expression techniques in local operas, such as absorbing the singing "dialogue" form in operas at the end of the presentation department to express the theme of two of a kind; The "Crying for the Grave" in the development department uses the inverted board in Peking Opera and the noisy board in Yue Opera.

This concerto gives full play to the symphonic effect of national music, and is known as "National Symphony" in China, while foreign music critics call it "Butterfly Love Concerto". Undoubtedly, this is a fascinating, novel and original work.

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