Second, the number is large: there are nearly 2,000 Zhenba folk songs, including love, life, labor, humor, historical legends, children's songs, etc., which reflect Zhenba people's longing for life and their pursuit of love in all aspects and embody an open, optimistic and persistent spirit.
Third, the beauty of music: Zhenba folk music is mostly a single paragraph of four sentences, but also a relatively primitive single estimate of two sentences and a complex and changeable multi-segment roll cavity. Its key signature and feathering modes are the majority. The melody is natural and smooth, and the melody is elegant and simple. There are both soft and beautiful tunes and rich and high-pitched songs, which are very beautiful.
4. Singer: Zhenba folk songs are widely distributed with many participants. Folk song competitions were held in all towns and villages. 1995, the folk song Great Cold held in the county in 2000 was based on the preliminary competitions of various towns. Excellent singers, men, women and children, were selected. In 2005, Bashan Township held a folk song contest, with 80-year-old people, 10-year-old children and a "folk song house", in which more than ten people from three generations participated. Villages and towns such as Bashan also require folk songs to be shown in the county seat, which shows that Zhenba folk songs involve a wide range of people. First, numbers. It can be divided into two categories: one is the chant that unifies the labor rhythm, such as "Lashi chant", "Ramming chant", "Mourning chant" and "Boatman chant"; The second is to adjust the labor mood, such as "reciting the second brother's song" and "playing the bellows song". The lyrics of the above songs are not very fixed, and most of them are improvised, and the singing form is "one leader, many people".
Second, folk songs. The lyrics are mostly about love, with seven words and four sentences as the main theme, exaggerated words and four paragraphs as the melody. Followed by two sentences and more rolling boards. Generally, it is sung at work, including solo, chorus and duet. Men's singing is mostly high-pitched, loud, flat-voiced, bold, majestic and rhythmic. All the women sing in a flat voice, touching and delicate. Some of his songs are improvised and handed down from generation to generation, such as: Beating Xiantao, Hong Xiuxie with Little Feet, Sunset on Four Mountains, Cropping Yellow Seedlings on the opposite side of the prodigal son, Clearing Grass and Removing Cattle, etc.
Third, minor. Folk songs that reflect the joys and sorrows of life, joys and sorrows, and feelings of life. Lyrics with five words and four sentences, seven words, four sentences and six sentences are common, and generally appear in the form of multi-paragraphs. Music is mostly single-paragraph structure, and it is more common to alternate five tones or feather tones or Otoha. There are chapters on butterfly lovers, Shiliting, Shisi, Shiquan, Shangchashan and Wuyao Valley. Singing places are usually in houses and yards. In the evening, when it is rainy or slack, they sing in groups of three or five.
Fourth, folk songs. It is very popular in local folk customs, and there are songs in marriage. In the marriage custom, a daughter cries like a song on the eve of marriage, and there are usually mothers and sisters crying and singing together. There are many lyrics attached, and there are many structures in seven words and two sentences. Such as "Weeping Marriage Song", "Mother Training Daughters" and "Leaving Mother's Bed". There are auspicious and festive songs in men's etiquette, such as begging for food cups and plates, taking clothes and rice bowls, making beds, rolling beds, taking seats and offering sacrifices to gods.
There is a song of mourning. On the eve of the funeral, the victim invited a master of filial piety, and the mourning hall sang a song of filial piety. Generally speaking, there are two or more singers accompanied by percussion instruments. Singing and crying all night. Most of the lyrics are songbooks handed down by ancestors. From the beginning of the song, to the death, toast the dutiful son, enter the DPRK, sing a notebook, write a poem to thank him for his wine, and go back and forth to the park to send him away. The descendants of the deceased (mostly women) cried like a song according to the coffin. The lyrics are that they want to sing now, singing the hardships of the deceased and singing the sorrow of the living.
In daily life, folk songs include "Birthday" and "Building a house to say good luck". There are also exhortation songs, such as ten exhortations to xian, ten exhortations to elder sister, exhortations to lang in December, songs of abstaining from whoring, songs of prodigal son, songs of playing with money, songs of lazy wife and so on. I. Books
1, Zhenba folk songs are handed down from generation to generation with heart, and there are almost no music scores and printed copies. Through the unremitting efforts of cultural workers, nearly 2000 lyrics of all kinds were collected from the people and edited into the first and second volumes of Zhenba Folk Songs. Representative music scores and related photos of various songs are also printed.
2. Before1985, zhenba county folk music and zhenba county folk songs were printed into books.
Second, musical instruments.
Singing dutiful son songs is accompanied by percussion instruments. There is a homemade sheepskin drum. The sheepskin is only covered on one side, and the other side is empty. It looks like a small wooden basin used locally, so it is also called a basin drum. There is a big gong on one side, and a cloud gong and a hairpin on the other. Let's run for four. In the prelude and interlude, it is mainly to stabilize the rhythm and set off the atmosphere of filial piety.
Three. Audio-visual products
In 1980s, there were singers recording in the county, but the number was too small, and the storage period of cassette tapes was short. This work needs further improvement.
Fourth, theoretical articles and works.
Musicians in our county devote themselves to the research and utilization of Zhenba folk songs. Hu's Revelation from the Mountain was published in People's MusicNo. 1987; Folk Songs in Words was published in the third issue of Music Exploration of Sichuan Conservatory of Music (1986). Liu Guanglang and Hu used Zhenba music materials to create and adapt a large number of works, some of which participated in national and provincial and municipal related performances.