Various tunes (North-South ditty) are sung in succession, which is intended to be narrative, lyrical and reasonable. Paizi Music Category: Tanxian, Tea Song, Nanyin, Major Music, Guangxi Wenchang, Xifu Music, Lanzhou Drum, Qinghai Pingxian, Yuexian, etc. Usually, there are as many as five or six people singing alone. In music structure, a joint structure consisting of a free head and a bent tail is usually adopted, with multiple pieces of music inserted in the middle.
The number of cards of various brand songs is somewhat different, and some cards are common to all brand songs. Accompaniment instruments are also different. Sanxian is the most popular brand song in the north, and dulcimer, pipa and erhu are the most popular brand songs in the south. Due to different times and regions, Zheng and other musical instruments are also used.
Paizi music breaks through the limitation that North and South music can only be put into a set of tunes in the same palace tune, and is often used in a set of tunes in different palace tunes, resulting in the contrast and development of music by changing tonality. Many rap varieties produced since the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been passed down to this day and are still active on the music stage.
Brief introduction of "Dan xian pai zi qu";
Referred to as "immortal", it is popular in Beijing, Tianjin, Northeast China and other places. It originated in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 200 years. It is a genre developed on the basis of Beijing tea songs and octagonal drum singing art. Playing the strings is the product of the blending of Manchu and Han folk arts, which has strong local characteristics in Beijing.
Danxian's music belongs to Qupai couplets, which has preserved the singing style of Beijing Union since the Qing Dynasty in the long-term evolution. There are two kinds of Dan Xian's plays: lyric and narrative. When performing, you often choose qupai according to the needs of content expression. There are more than 60 kinds of qupai in common use, such as Taiping Niandiao, Yunsu diao, Qikuai Shue and Cheng Nan diao.
Its lyrics have two forms: long and short sentences and upper and lower sentences. Three prefixes, overlapping sentences, embedded words and interlinings are often added to words to enhance expressiveness. Danxian's performances are varied. One person can play and sing by himself, or one person can stand on the octagonal drum and the other person can play the three-string accompaniment, or they can sing in groups of two.
The traditional repertoire of Danxian is very rich, mostly storytelling novels since the Middle Ages. Fengyi Pavilion, Cuiping Mountain, Gaolaozhuang and Daiyu Burying Flowers are his representative works.