Folk songs are the voices on the land, which convey the sadness, joy, separation and harmony on the land, flowing continuously.
Folk songs, which deeply reflect people's lives and feelings, are the sustenance of working people's thoughts, feelings, wishes and ideals, and the deep voice of working people. Therefore, all kinds of feelings, such as joy and pain, helplessness and anger, love and loss, enthusiasm and banter, will inevitably be reflected in folk songs.
The authors and singers of folk songs are the working people themselves. They have the richest social practical experience and have formed their own thoughts, feelings and will in the long-term labor, life and struggle, which requires them to express themselves by their own artistic means. The main purpose of working people to create folk songs is to express their own voices. For example, Embroidered Pocket expresses a girl's deep affection for her lover and her longing for a better life. Chuanjiang Boatman's Song and Tamping Song show the heroic spirit of the working people in their struggle with nature. However, "Long-term Workers Suffer" and "Song of Working" pour out the sad feelings of long-term workers who are bullied and oppressed.
In Shandong, when it comes to folk songs, most people will definitely mention Yimeng Mountain Minor. Minor, also known as "family song", is not limited by environment and objects when singing. Because minor is rooted in the native land and closely combined with local dialects, it is full of rich folk songs and shows gorgeous local charm, which is deeply loved by people. Minor is like a canoe sailing in the long river of history, which is updated with the change of life and has strong vitality. The lyrics in minor are vivid and meaningful, and with the interlude of interludes, they are very distinctive. Lyrics in minor songs reflect a wide range of social aspects, involving all corners of life, concentrating different elegance, reflecting the light of history and expressing the aspirations of working people.
what folk songs show is that the people's thoughts and feelings are very real and profound, and they are the deep embodiment of the working people's voices.
There are many ethnic groups in China, which are widely distributed, and their living area accounts for more than 5% of the national area. Such a vast region and complex natural environment will inevitably have a far-reaching impact on the formation and development of China folk music. China folk songs are an important part of Chinese traditional culture, and their brilliant musical traditions are created by people of all ethnic groups. Ethnic minorities, like the Han people, have made outstanding contributions to China's music. Many ethnic integrations in history have gradually formed a certain * * * character in the process of mutual communication and mutual absorption. The great Chinese folk songs are the result of mutual blending, mutual absorption and mutual promotion of national music. Folk songs learn from each other and are widely sung by working people in this time and again. It is these simple and true folk songs that closely link the hearts of people of all ethnic groups. People of all ethnic groups live in peace and contentment, live in unity on the land of China, and convey the happiness of life and national unity with folk songs. Therefore, folk songs are the crystallization of the unity of all ethnic groups and the bond of national cohesion.
folk songs are the product of the combination of man and nature, and loess folk songs are the accumulation of loess culture and the songs condensed by the sufferings of the loess people from generation to generation. It's not easy for the ancestors who lived in that land. They need a bleak, euphemistic or high-pitched tone to express their feelings, and folk songs are the cry of their hearts.
Although I have never seen the yellow land in Hubei, I know that my heart is attached to that land, which is the backbone of China, bearing the heavy history of the nation and enduring long-term suffering. People living in this yellow land have created such a loess folk song with a strong loess flavor in order to alleviate the sense of oppression caused by the harsh natural environment. Folk songs record the history of the nation and the lives of ancestors. If you don't know the yellow land and the people on it, you can't understand China. Jiangnan minor lets us know the feminine China, while loess folk songs let us know the masculine China. Listening to loess folk songs, you will think of the barren loess plateau and the muddy yellow river water. Loess folk songs are an important part of China's music treasure house and a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. Because the loess area is vast and sparsely populated, the customs are simple and the folk customs are fierce, and the vast grasslands, mountains and rivers have a direct impact on the national character and local culture, most loess folk songs are rough, bold, high-pitched and straight, which is extremely rich in vitality. Loess folk songs are the backbone of China folk songs and the soul of China folk songs.
in the history of the development of Chinese music culture, the five categories of traditional music have influenced, promoted and enriched each other. Among them, folk songs are the earliest, and they play an active role in the formation and development of other traditional music genres. Many varieties of song and dance, folk art, opera and national instrumental music are directly or indirectly developed on the basis of folk songs. Such as "Lantern" songs and dances, "Lantern Opera" and "Flower Drum Opera" in various places; Most kinds of songs in rap music, such as brand songs, piano books and miscellaneous songs; Music such as "Hebei Blowing Songs" and many folk instrumental music pieces, such as "Dressing Table" and "Cutting Flowers", were transplanted or adapted from the development of folk songs. Therefore, folk songs are the basis of national folk music.
I often hear people say, "I like music very much, but I just don't understand it." Copland, a famous American composer, once said, "If you want to understand music better, nothing is more important than listening to it." As college students, as long as they believe in their musical potential and keep listening to music, they will gain more and more musical beauty. For folk songs, we should take the initiative to experience folk songs on the premise of listening to them, so that we can have our own feelings and understanding of folk songs. As a college student, with the increase of scientific and cultural knowledge and eager for knowledge, if you know little about the folk songs of the motherland, you will feel the lack of deep feelings when you succeed in your career. So we must learn, inherit and carry forward the folk songs of the motherland. In addition to repeated "listening", we need to understand folk songs rationally and combine them with aesthetic experience to enter a higher emotional realm.
the national spirit is the spiritual support for a nation's survival and development, and it is an extremely important task for cultural construction to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit. In an era when various cultures and trends meet and collide, China people can't leave the roots of their national culture and lose their national characteristics. China folk songs are an important part of the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. As a college student, we should contribute to the protection and continuation of these cultural treasures passed down from generation to generation by working people. May real folk songs not become a masterpiece in our time.
1. The task of "China Folk Music Appreciation" course is not only to let students enjoy folk music, but also to cultivate students' patriotic feelings and national pride. China folk music has a long history. As early as four or five thousand years ago, in the primitive clan society, there were dances and songs. Among the unearthed cultural relics, there is a wind instrument in Neolithic Age (about 1, to 4, years ago)-Tao Xun. In the history of China, there have been many times when the music culture was prosperous. There was a huge court band in the Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-256 BC). Especially in the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-97), music was highly developed and was in the advanced ranks of the world music at that time. It has a profound influence on the music development of Japan, Korea and some countries in Southeast Asia.
China folk music is generally divided into five categories, namely, songs, song and dance music, rap music, opera music and instrumental music. Each kind of music has a variety of genres, forms, kinds of music and works, such as songs and ancient songs and folk songs; Folk songs are divided into different genres, such as labor songs, folk songs, minor, Long song and multi-voice songs. They are both folk songs, but they have different styles and characteristics due to different regions and nationalities. Another example is national musical instruments. As early as 2 years in the Zhou Dynasty, there were more than 7 kinds of musical instruments. There are more than 2 kinds of musical instruments that are often used now. According to their playing methods and performance, they can be divided into four categories: wind instruments, stringed instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments. These instruments can be solo and combined into various forms and bands for ensemble and ensemble, and they have unique and rich artistic expression.
China's traditional music is formed and developed through the exchange and integration of the Central Plains music centered on the Yellow River Basin, the Four Domains music and foreign music. Therefore, it can be said that the Central Plains music, the Four Domains music and foreign music are the three major sources of China traditional music.
second, the most prominent feature of folk music is freehand brushwork, which is to set off a spiritual atmosphere and a spiritual feeling. For example, "Mountain" and "Running Water" do not directly describe the scenery in detail, but write feelings to see the scenery with feelings. As we said in the sub-period, "lofty ambition is in the mountains" and "swinging ambition is in the running water" is "ambition", not scenery. Here, some people will think that the author confuses freehand brushwork (as opposed to realism) with writing feelings. But in fact, freehand brushwork depicts the image of objective things after spiritual projection, which has been processed by people's feelings to a great extent, and is further abstracted into a musical form, which falls on paper and is music, and is fun when it is heard.
this freehand brushwork of folk music is very consistent with the fact that most folk music genres are solo or a few instrumental ensembles, but few bands and concertos. Large bands are good at detailed descriptions of scenery and colors, and are good at setting off a wide range of atmosphere, while the artistic conception in the depths of their hearts is the patent of solo and a few instrumental ensembles. Among the western classical genres, chamber music, such as string quartets, is the closest to the soul, which also illustrates this point well.
Here, I want to tell you: Listen to folk music, you won't be disappointed.
another feature of folk music is individuality-writing personal thoughts and expressing personal feelings. This is very similar to chamber music in western music, but there seems to be no genre and works that match western symphony music in folk music. Not only immersed in personal feelings, but also reflecting the broader external world, there are many musical works such as House of Flying Daggers, Overlord Dismantling, River Water, etc., but there are not many such works. It should be said that too much emphasis on artistic conception and too much immersion in the personal world have seriously restricted the development of folk music, so that the music system of folk music has not reached the breadth and prosperity of the western music system. This is a great pity.
when you listen to folk music, you won't feel hearty and excited most of the time, and you don't often feel lingering and intoxicating, but it can fully mobilize your mind (if you are really listening), so that you can create an artistic conception and atmosphere, and melt into it, producing the most detailed and sincere emotions from the bottom of your heart. This is folk music, our own music of the Chinese nation.