First, the musical style.
This piece of music has a three-part structure, and its structural diagram is roughly as follows: A= Prelude 2+A+b+ A'. The beginning of music is a prelude to the cadence style of two bars. The majestic Jinghu, like a flag fluttering in the wind, swept the historical sky. Vicissitudes, endless love cycle, vent and erupt in these short two paragraphs! The first presentation adopts the style of Chinese opera, and then enters the topic sentence. The material of topic sentences comes from introduction, that is, prelude and cadence. It consists of two parallel phrases, which are regular in structure and short and pithy. Highlight a "feeling" in the stirring melody and arouse the audience's thinking. Lead the hearing to a pure and affectionate feeling picture. If the presentation section gives people the feeling that it is ancient and distant, then a melodious erhu behind the presentation section draws people's attention back to the colorful modern world, and the girl is affectionate and melancholy; The joys and sorrows of boundless love; Worry about it; Where are you going ... all of them. The reappearance part is the reappearance of change, highlighting the sense of return of the theme, that is, the sense of return of life and love. So it can be said that this is a very classic piece, with extremely heavy orchestration.
Second, the singing style
A good vocal music work, singing is the only way to show it to the world's hearing and produce a sense of beauty from words to sounds. The expressive force of singing depends on the professional quality and comprehensive quality of the singer, such as life experience, cultural level, innate understanding and so on. However, I think the singing method of this work can be divided into several styles: opera singing, national singing, and national bel canto style combining Chinese and western. However, these singing methods are not all outstanding in this song, especially the beauty of folk songs, which only plays a basic role in the middle part, so the professional quality of the singer is very high. Throughout the whole work, from the perspective of the scattered board, the singing method of Chinese opera is the most prominent. After the prelude of Jinghu, the singer opened the first lyric in Peking Opera style, which was bold, broad and heavy, requiring the singer's voice to be clear, high-pitched, full of breath and emotional agitation. Then he kneaded into the mellow, elegant, noble and delicate tune of Kunqu Opera. Singers should try their best to keep their voices sweet and restrained while maintaining traditional opera singing methods. After entering the middle period, there even appeared modern orchestration, fast-paced accompaniment rhyme, and the familiar popular singing method appeared in the singing method. The voice turns soft and slow, and the position is lower and thicker than the scattered board in front, as if telling an eternal legend. It represents the new music style after entering the new century, lively and full of youthful atmosphere, and tells the eternal farewell of love with modern expression. Entering the reappearance (A'), the musical form suddenly turned back to the singing method of Chinese opera, but it did not completely repeat the singing method of the previous part A, that is, the folk bel canto style. Although the part of its bel canto style is not very prominent and long, it embodies the comprehensive quality of the singer here and highlights the composer's unique techniques. Therefore, as far as aria is concerned, it can be summarized into three sections: namely, the scattered section is a traditional opera aria; The middle section is modern national singing; In addition to the traditional opera singing, the reappearance part also incorporates the western bel canto elements.
Third, the style of lyrics.
Lyrics are the blood of a song. A good vocal music work should not only have an exquisite composition structure, but also have lyrics that are easy to understand, easy to sing and easy to learn. Farewell forever is not only refreshing in form, but also exquisite in lyrics style and lyrics connotation. It not only has traditional advantages, but also breaks through the rigid framework of traditional lyric style, with distinctive techniques and long coverage time. Its contents are as follows:
Look at the mountains and high water, Wan Li scenery.
Melodious music and eternal farewell;
Tides come and go in the world;
There is always a long story;
That paragraph is the most unforgettable;
Dreaming at night;
Dressing mirror;
Wake up and shed a thousand tears;
The past life is too far and the afterlife is too long;
People are in a sea of people, and their hearts are boundless;
Don't laugh at my enthusiasm and madness;
Time is over;
Who will sing that song forever?
First of all, judging from the rhyme of the lyrics, the lyrics of A Farewell to Eternal Farewell follow the law that every sentence of traditional ancient poetry must rhyme, that is, the end of each sentence is pronounced with nasal sounds such as "light", "singing", "long", "forgetting" and "thinking", which makes the words read like flowing clouds and makes the actors sing forcefully. The northern rhyme is subject to the upper cavity; The number of words in the lyrics is above the word style as the reference coefficient. Secondly, regarding the lyrics, it is well known that A Farewell is an immortal love legend. But in this lyric, what we see is to express the sincerity of love and the return of humanity with "the mountains are high and the water is long, the scenery in Wan Li is melodious"; Metaphorically presented to the audience thinking of sadness, unpredictable sadness. Finally, we can see a style similar to narrative songs in the lyrics. But here we only use this technique instead of telling something. In fact, we show an emotional picture. Throughout the lyrics, we feel a beautiful love streamline; Although there are only a few short sentences, they are exquisite and regular, and echo first. For example, from "that paragraph" to "who will play that song", the piecemeal emotions of the audience are strung together, reaching the first place at the beginning, closely consistent and echoing from afar.
(Author: Hunan Normal University Conservatory of Music)
Editor in charge: Yang Jian