In his short life, Xian Xinghai wrote and lived for about 10 years. * * * He has composed hundreds of songs (currently more than 250), 4 choruses, 65,438+0 operas, 2 symphonies, 4 orchestral suites, 65,438+0 rhapsody, and many solo and ensemble works of violin, piano and other instrumental music. Among Xian Xinghai's creations, the most numerous and influential are all kinds of pop songs. Among them, China People's Anti-Japanese Struggle, Salvation Army Song, Youth March, Defending Lugou Bridge, Going Behind the Enemy Line, etc., appeared in the form of summoning and fighting March. There are Taihang Mountain, Guerrilla and Counter-offensive, which show the magnificent battle scenes of the people's war and combine lyricism with agitation or descriptive with generality. There are "Top Difficult", "Plough Song", "Shifu Song" and "We Open the Road", which show the working life of workers and peasants and are written in a specific labor tone and rhythm. There are also "I'm afraid I won't resist", "Children of the Motherland" and "Women's Day Songs written for women and children in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression" and so on. In these mass songs, Xian Xinghai created musical images with different personality characteristics according to different contents, or expressed passionate and generous feelings and majestic momentum with an impactful rhythm and a tall and angular melody; Or embody the rich inner world of the revolutionary people with broad melody, slow and calm rhythm and lyrical tone.
Xian Xinghai's four choruses "Chorus of Production Movement" and Yellow River Chorus "Chorus of September 18th" and "Chorus of Ximeng".
Among them, The Yellow River Cantata is the best and most influential chorus work.
The Yellow River Cantata is the most important and influential representative work of Xian Xinghai. Introduction to the Yellow River Chorus
The Yellow River Cantata is the most important and influential representative work of Xian Xinghai. /kloc-0 was made in March, 1939, and was rearranged and processed in the Soviet Union in June, 1994/kloc-0. With the Yellow River as the background, this work by the poet Guang Weiran enthusiastically eulogizes the glorious history of the Chinese nation and the indomitable fighting spirit of the people of China, bitterly accuses the invaders of their cruelty and the people's deep disasters, widely displays the magnificent picture of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, sends out a battle alarm for national liberation to China and the whole world, and shapes the heroic image of the giant of the Chinese nation.
The Yellow River Cantata was written in the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, 1938 autumn and winter. The author marched with the anti-Japanese troops to the northwest bank of the Yellow River. China's magnificent mountains and rivers and heroic soldiers inspired the author's creation, and the call of the times prompted him to write a large-scale recitation poem Ode to the Yellow River with high patriotic enthusiasm, which was later rewritten into the lyrics of the Yellow River Chorus. The work consists of eight movements, showing the heroic spirit of the sons and daughters of the Yellow River with rich artistic images, magnificent historical scenes and majestic momentum.
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1938165438+10 After the fall of Wuhan in October, the famous poet Guang William. J led the third team of anti-Japanese drama to cross the Yellow River eastward from Hukou, Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, and transferred to Luliang Mountain Anti-Japanese base area. On the way, I witnessed the Yellow River boatman struggling forward in the stormy waves, listening to the sonorous boatman's horn. After arriving in Yan 'an in June+the following year 10, 5438, he wrote the poem Yellow River and recited it at this year's New Year's Eve party. Xian Xinghai was very excited after hearing this, and said that he would create The Yellow River Cantata for the crew. In a crude earthen kiln in Yan 'an, Xian Xinghai persisted in writing for six days, and finished this historic large-scale vocal work The Yellow River Cantata. After that, it premiered in Yan 'an Northern Shaanxi Public School Auditorium, which caused great repercussions and soon spread all over China.
The Yellow River Cantata provided a brilliant example for China's modern large-scale vocal music creation. In the late 1960s, it was also adapted into a piano concerto.
Ode to the Yellow River is the lyrics of a solo song in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's famous symphony The Yellow River Cantata. The author's creative intention is to arouse people's love for the Chinese nation and national consciousness of defending their homeland to the death in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Although its creation time is far from ours, its heroic, heroic and forceful poems and strong feelings can still arouse our voices and our pride as descendants of the Chinese nation.
Creation background
Xian Xinghai's return to China was deeply painful for the nation's peril, and he knew the sufferings of the people. At the critical moment of national peril, he stood in front of the national struggle. He is convinced that the China * * * production party is the mainstay of the Chinese nation, and he joined the China * * * production party. For the sake of national liberation and "roaring for the war of resistance", he wrote songs with a vertical pen. 1939, he went to visit the young poet in his hospital bed, listened to him recite Ode to the Yellow River, and told the magnificent scene of the roaring and flowing Yellow River. In a week and a half, I finished the score of eight movements and all the accompanying music. He wrote the musical epic of the Chinese nation in this era.
The Yellow River Chorus, under the baptism of the beacon fire of the Anti-Japanese War, quickly grew into the horn of China people's patriotic salvation; At the same time, it has been widely recognized by overseas Chinese and the world anti-fascist front for its spiritual strength and national personality. In times of peace, like a founding father with many meritorious military achievements, it continues to gallop in the music scene at home and abroad and has become an artistic wealth that the Chinese nation is proud of.
As soon as The Yellow River Cantata came out, he quickly sang the land of China, which became the spiritual horn of the Anti-Japanese War and saving the nation. Promoted the development of unity and resistance to Japan. At the premiere, the band only had two or three violins and twenty national musical instruments. Bass stringed instruments are made of kerosene barrels, percussion instruments are washbasins and a large number of spoons swaying in enamel jars ... This original band set off more than 40 potential young people and sang loudly. Since then, the Yellow River Chorus has spread all over Yan 'an, China and the world, one after another, reverberating, shocking and enduring. Chairman Mao was very happy after watching the performance. He stood up and clapped hard, repeatedly saying, "Good! All right! Good! " Premier Zhou also wrote an inscription for Xian Xinghai: "Shout for the war of resistance and speak for the people!"
Lyric solo songs play an important role in Xian Xinghai's song creation, and most of them are interludes for stage plays and movies. These works reflect the experiences and inner feelings of specific people in real life from different aspects, or pour out their love for the motherland and the people, or express their feelings of longing for battle. Such as: "Singing at Midnight" and "Don't mention it", full of passion and fantasy, sang the painful feelings and battle cry after being persecuted by feudal forces and losing their land; "Hot Blood" and "Love in the Yellow River" are both generous elegies, expressing the strong will to fight for freedom and the confidence to win; Making cotton-padded clothes, marching in the south of the Yangtze River and hypnosis in wartime. Express the patriotic feelings of women in the Anti-Japanese War with beautiful, cordial, simple and fresh folk tones.
In order to express the broad real life and make songs more national, Xian Xinghai also explored and created some song styles with the characteristics of the new era. Among them, there are songs that organically combine different expressive features of lyricism and militancy, such as "On Taihang Mountain" and "Song of March 8 Women's Day"; An Acura "Praise for New China"; There are also narrative songs that combine folk rap music with combative mass songs, such as Liang Hongyu and Down with Wang Jingwei. He is very good at exploring the rhythmic beauty of lyrics language and giving it musical play on the premise of expressing the theme image. He is also very good at using various forms of singing, such as solo, chorus, lead singer, chorus and rap. Especially in the form of round singing and two-part chorus, it had innovative significance and extensive influence in the anti-Japanese war singing at that time. In addition, during his visit to the Soviet Union, he mainly used China's classical poems to create artistic songs, and also made achievements in exploring new genres and national styles.
Another important contribution of Xian Xinghai to music creation is the creation of a chorus with national characteristics, which expresses the revolutionary struggle of our people. The four choruses are the same in the realism of theme and content, the nationalization and popularization of expression techniques, but they are treated differently according to different themes and contents, which makes each work have different characteristics. The production chorus, composed in March of 1939, combines singing, dancing and drama performances, and shows the productive labor and anti-Japanese life of the people in the liberated areas through four scenes: spring ploughing, sowing for war, autumn harvest assault and bumper harvest. Music has a folk flavor, and the chorus is rough and simple. Among them, "February Comes" and "September 18th Chorus" created to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the September 18th Incident are narrative choral works with the formal structure of symphony and Rondo. The whole song runs through and appears repeatedly with a musical theme with dance characteristics and a long and deep sub-theme, which is interspersed with many paragraphs with different personalities, showing the people's review of the course of the Anti-Japanese War when celebrating their victory and inspiring their determination to carry it through to the end. Among them, the female solo and chorus passage "Midnight Song of September 18th" uses the plate variation technique in traditional Chinese opera and rap music, which has dramatic effect. The band accompaniment of "September 18th Chorus" and "Production Chorus" is very distinctive in the application of national percussion instruments and the rhythm of China music style. "Ximeng Choir" was created in March of 1940. It is a mass song choir for the anti-Japanese death squads who sacrificed the National Salvation Corps in Shanxi Province. It includes six paragraphs, including chorus, solo, rotation and chorus, and has a distinctive local color.