I don’t know whether it refers to folk music or traditional Chinese music

Folk music: classification of national music

According to traditional customs, national instrumental music is divided into "singles" and "suites" "Two categories. Singles are mostly single independent music labels. A suite is composed of multiple tunes or independent passages. For example, there are thirteen sets of pipa music from the Northern and Southern Schools, eight sets from northern Shanxi, etc. For example, according to the type of musical form structure, there are mainly variations, cycles, couplets, complexes, etc., among which variations and couplets are the most common.

Various variation techniques are widely used in creation. When folk artists perform a piece of music repeatedly, they are good at using various playing techniques to decorate the melody to form variations, such as "Happy Meeting" (flute music), "Wedding Song" (suona music), etc. "Slow-down fill-in" is also a commonly used variation technique, which doubles the structure of the "mother song" and adds fill-in at the same time. Musical pieces such as "Happy Song" (Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo), "Nanxiu Purse" (an Errentai brand song), and "Liu Qingniang" (Chaozhou String Poetry) all place the "slow down and add flowers" paragraph before the "mother song". Another variation technique is to adopt a structure of changing themes. For example, the theme of the Erhu song "Er Quan Ying Yue" is expanded and contracted before, during or at the end of the sentence in the following five variations. The "Tie Ce Ban Sheng" in the pipa song "White Snow in Spring" adopts an inversion of the structural order. This change in structural order is more common in the gong and drum sections.

Since the 1920s, Liu Tianhua, Nie Er and others have done some work on the inheritance and development of national instrumental music. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, music workers continued to organize, process, and adapt various fine traditional repertoires, so that the original spirit of the music could be more perfectly expressed, and a large number of new works also emerged. In terms of musical instrument reform, great progress has been made in unifying the temperament, improving the sound quality, expanding the volume, facilitating modulation, and adding bass. New varieties such as large-scale ethnic orchestra ensembles have been produced, and there have been new developments in content and form. .

Chinese traditional music: We can see the word "national music" in many folk music CDs. This "national music" refers to the "national music" that has been handed down from ancient times and developed in modern times. "National Essence" music, it can be seen that the creation time of "National Music" refers to ancient times;

"New Music" refers to music written by those who have studied Western music, such as school music, which shows that the creation time of "National Music" refers to the ancient times; The music was created after the Opium War in 1840.

“Chinese music” refers not only to the music passed down from ancient times, but also to the music created and adapted by the Chinese according to Western theories.

"Traditional Chinese music" refers to music created by the Chinese using their own nation's inherent methods and forms, and with the nation's inherent morphological characteristics. It not only includes ancient music that was produced in history and has been passed down to this day. works, including contemporary works. It can be seen that traditional music includes "Chinese music" but not "new music", but they are all "Chinese music".

Traditional music is an extremely important part of my country’s national music. The difference between traditional music and new music does not lie in the order of the sounds when they were created, but in its form of expression and stylistic characteristics. For example, the erhu solos "The Moon Reflects on Two Springs" and "Fishing Boats Sing Evening" are modern music works, but their performance forms are unique to the Chinese nation, so they are also traditional music. On the contrary, the school songs and the piano solo "Shepherd Boy Piccolo" are not traditional music because their musical form characteristics are borrowed from Western music.