They are: "Yellow River Boatman Song", "Ode to the Yellow River", "Yellow River Water Coming from the Sky", "Yellow River Dialogue Song", "Yellow Water Ballad", "Yellow River Resentment", "Defend the Yellow River" and "Roar, Yellow River" .

The first movement: "Yellow River Boatman Song" (Mixed Chorus).

The second movement: "Ode to the Yellow River" (tenor or baritone solo).

The third movement: "The Water of the Yellow River Comes from the Sky" (music recitation, three-string accompaniment).

The fourth movement: "Yellow Water Ballad" (female two-part chorus, the original version is for unison).

The fifth movement: "Dialect Song by the River" (male duet and mixed chorus, the original version is male duet).

Sixth movement: "Yellow River Resentment" (soprano solo, in concerts often add three female accompaniments according to the revised version).

The seventh movement: "Defend the Yellow River" (singing rotation).

The eighth movement: "Roar, Yellow River" (mixed chorus).

The melody of "Ode to the Yellow River" is passionate and majestic, full of strong impact and shocking power, demonstrating the unruly bloody nature of the Yellow River and the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation.

Contemporary writer Li Chaoquan's "Centennial Classics of Poetry·1917-2015": "The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and a symbol of the Chinese spirit. The momentum and power of the Yellow River are exactly the momentum and power of this nation. . This is a great river with a long history, strong and mighty, just like this country and nation.

When poets praise the Yellow River, they are praising this nation that contains infinite power and passion. A hymn dedicated to the motherland. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Yellow River symbolized the determination and strength of the entire nation to fight against the enemy to the end. It flowed unstoppably across the wilderness of Asia; the final victory must belong to this river and its descendants. ”

Fudan University Professor Zhu Wenhua’s “New Selections of Modern Chinese Literary Works”: “The Yellow River Cantata uses the Yellow River to symbolize the character and destiny of the Chinese nation, and expresses the Chinese people’s hard struggle for victory in the struggle for national liberation. Among them, "Ode to the Yellow River" conveys the theme most concentratedly.

This poem has a concise and warning language and a tragic and intense emotion, which better absorbs and digests Chinese classical poetry (especially Song poetry). The language art of the "Heroist School", while also drawing on the expression methods of political lyric poetry and agitational poetry at that time, are the significant artistic features of this work.

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