minor is a genre of China folk songs. Generally speaking, it refers to folk songs and dances popular in town fairs. After being passed down through the ages, it has undergone more processing in art, and has the characteristics of balanced structure, regular rhythm, delicate melody and softness. There are many popular folk names, such as ditty, slang, alley ballad, village square ditty, city ballad, folk song, seasonal tune, silk tune, silk string ditty, etc. Minor is a general term that has only been used recently. Data expansion:
Minor, also known as "ditty", "slang" and "seasonal tune", is a folk song that people use to express their feelings and entertain themselves after work, in their daily lives and at weddings and funerals. Because there are professional artists and semi-professional artists singing, and they are inextricably linked with Quyi and traditional Chinese opera, there are more processed and refined components, less impromptu words and songs, more stereotyped, and more mature and perfect in art. Therefore, minor is relatively widespread, covering cities and towns, and its content covers the lives of people from all walks of life. Rural minor mainly reflects rural daily life, especially the love and marriage life of rural women; Urban minor involves the life of small-scale craftsmen, businessmen, citizens and prostitutes and beggars at the bottom of society, as well as entertainment, natural scenery, life knowledge, folk stories and so on. Minor expresses delicate and tortuous feelings, with regular forms and rich and varied expression techniques. According to different contents, minor can be divided into four categories: lyric songs, humorous songs, children's songs and folk songs.
most minor songs are in the form of segmented songs, and one song contains many paragraphs, often in the form of four seasons, five watches, twelve o'clock, etc., with multi-faceted and detailed statements. In order to meet the needs of multi-paragraph words, its tunes express a certain emotion (or soft, or sad, or cheerful) in a concise way, with strong melody, smooth melody, twists and turns, rich and varied melody lines and strong expressive force.
The rhythm of minor is regular, the rhythm type is rich and changeable, and the singing forms are mostly solo, followed by duet and chorus. In urban minor, there are many accompaniment of silk stringed instruments, the use of intro and door-crossing, and the decoration of musical instruments in accompaniment, which makes the minor music more beautiful and moving.
Lyrics in minor have various formats: in addition to seven sentences, there are also long and short sentences, and besides two sentences and four sentences, there are often non-dual three sentences and five sentences. In addition, the richness, variety and regularity of the lining words make the musical structure of minor compare with that of the chant and the rhyme. Folk songs are more mature and varied.
minor songs are found all over the country, and some are spread in certain areas. Generally, the melody is smooth and the structure is regular. Lyrics are relatively stable due to the artist's teaching and the spread of songbooks, with diverse formats and rich changes. The forms of long and short sentences are common, and the non-dual structures such as three sentences and five sentences and the repetition of multi-paragraph words are also common. And commonly used in the form of four seasons, five watches, December, flower names and so on. The musical structure is mostly two-sentence and four-sentence single-paragraph structure, which is still rich in changes because of the diverse lyrics formats. The musical structure is expanded with interlining and interlining to strengthen emotional expression. There are also many multi-segment structures, which are used in minor with narrative elements, such as "The Big Nine Rings" in Jiangsu Province. There are also single-paragraph structures, which have grown up because the rhythm and speed of the tune have changed when many paragraphs are repeated, such as Look at the Lover in the Northeast. Topics are wide, ranging from major political and social events to daily life, customs, love, etc., involving all aspects of social life. It has a wide range of reflections on the oppressed and enslaved life of the working people in the old days, such as "The Moon Bends over Kyushu", "Song of Long Workers" and "Meng Jiangnv". In modern times, it has also been used to publicize revolutionary ideas, such as the May 3th Movement and Ten Send to the Red Army. However, in the old society, influenced by the ideology of the exploiting classes, there were also works reflecting backward social consciousness, such as some low-level pornographic songs. Singing forms are mainly solo, duet or chorus, and most of them are accompanied by instrumental music.
Source: Baidu Encyclopedia Minor