The artistic conception expressed in the song "Velvet Flower"

"Velvet Flower" is a popular movie interlude in the film "Little Flower". It has won the Best Film Music Award at the 3rd Film Hundred Flowers Award, the Audience's Favorite Radio Outstanding Song Award, etc. Keywords Movie Interlude "Velvet Flower" Musical Elements Plot Development "There is a beautiful flower in the world. It is the youth that spits out its youthful beauty. It blooms with strong bones. It is dyed red with blood..." Movie interlude written by Kai Chuan and composed by Wang Min "Velvet Flower" was created in the late 1970s. It was born in response to the plot development needs of the movie "Little Flower". With a novel perspective and fresh music style, it deeply and meticulously depicts the emotional beauty of the heroine Cuigu's inner world. The melody of the song is beautiful, lyrical and deeply emotional. Heartwarming.

"Velvet Flower" is a popular movie interlude in the film "Little Flower". It has won the Best Film Music Award at the 3rd Film Hundred Flowers Award, the Audience's Favorite Radio Outstanding Song Award, etc. Keywords Movie Interlude "Velvet Flower" Musical Elements Plot Development "There is a beautiful flower in the world. It is the youth that spits out its youthful beauty. It blooms with strong bones. It is dyed red with blood..." Movie interlude written by Kai Chuan and composed by Wang Min "Velvet Flower" was created in the late 1970s. It was born in response to the plot development needs of the movie "Little Flower". With a novel perspective and fresh music style, it deeply and meticulously depicts the emotional beauty of the inner world of the heroine Cui Gu. The melody of the song is beautiful, lyrical and deeply emotional. Heartwarming.

1. Overview of the movie "Little Flower" The movie "Little Flower" is adapted from the previous novel "Heroes of Tongbai". The summary of the story is: In 1930, a family surnamed Zhao lived in Tongbai Mountain District. He sold his daughter Xiaohua, who was under one year old, to others. That night, lumberjack He Xiangdong fostered underground party member Dong Xiangkun and Dr. Zhou's daughter Dong Hongguo in the Zhao family because Hongguo and Xiaohua were the same age. Just change her name to Xiaohua. Seventeen years later. Zhao Xiaohua (Dong Hongguo) went to the army to find her brother Zhao Yongsheng, who had joined the revolution, but failed. Instead, she met Dr. Zhou, and the mother and daughter did not know each other. After Zhao Yongsheng's biological sister Xiaohua was sold, he was redeemed and adopted by He Xiangdong. Changed her name to He Cuigu. Cuigu, who has grown into a guerrilla captain, "kneeled down Windmill Island" to save her seriously injured brother Changsheng in a battle, but she did not know it. Later, Xiaohua reunited with her brother, and Cuigu also learned about her life experience. In a battle, Cuigu was seriously injured while rescuing Xiaohua. After the battle, Xiaohua recognized her biological parents. Changsheng and Xiaohua went to the hospital to visit Cuigu. Cuigu was in a coma and called her brother intermittently. Xiaohua took the gun from her brother and was determined to follow the blood of the martyrs to welcome new victories.

2. Music analysis of the movie episode "Velvet Flower" The whole song "Velvet Flower" has a two-section structure and a major tonal color. The first theme part uses plain narrative music language to enter, consisting of two parallel phrases of 9 and 9. The internal structure of both phrases is 5 4 sections. The melody progression is mainly based on the second and progression, and contains a minor third progression. The upper part of the theme half ends in the dominant function, and its harmonic trend is t-s-t-d. The melody of the upper sentence highlights the "4" sound in the subordinate functional group in the fourth measure, and the sixth and eighth measures emphasize the leading sound "7" to the tonic sound. The minor second degree of "1" is solved. It not only consolidates the main chord, but also pave the way for the semi-termination of the dominant function: the next sentence of the theme completely terminates in the main function, and its harmonic trend is t-s ii-tsvi-d-t. The melody of the next sentence is in the 15th and 16th measures for two consecutive parts. This is the first time to use the pure fifth downward jump. It adds to the emotional depth of the song. It is worth mentioning that the musical theme of "Velvet Flower" is based on Western major keys and cleverly incorporates the unique "12356" pentatonic series elements of Chinese music, enhancing the national charm of the work.

In terms of rhythm selection, the composer carefully designed the basic rhythm of the song based on syncopated rhythm, creating a musical effect of one chant and three sighs in the auditory sense. The second part of the song is a chorus creation technique. In the melody of evocation and folk song flavor, the use of multiple consecutive triplets gradually increases the musical level of the whole song. This part of the harmony functionally highlights the color of the subordinate chords, causing the tonality to temporarily shift to the major key of the subordinate relationship. It forms the climax of the whole song and returns to the original key at the end of the song.

As for the lyrics, the unpretentious lyrics are unified with the simple music style. The use of overlapping words and overlapping words in the lyrics echoes the use of overlapping sounds in the melody, which not only increases the beauty of the syllables, but also deepens the emotional expression of the song.

3. The role of "Velvet Flower" in the development of the film's plot. The movie "Little Flower" takes the storyline of "two little flowers" (Zhao Xiaohua and He Cuigu) looking for their brother as the main line, and depicts the story of people in the war years. The story of life and death vividly expresses the love between brother and sister, mother and daughter, and the movie episode "Velvet Flower" is timely released in the specific scene of "Cui Gu kneels and walks to Windmill Island", which emotionally pave the way for the climax of the film. It effectively exaggerated the atmosphere of the film, sublimated the theme and connotation, promoted the development of the plot, and left a deep impression on the audience.

In the film, "Velvet Flower" is a lyrical ode to youth. The "anti-color" processing method appears simultaneously with the scene of "Cui Gu kneels and walks to Windmill Island". It is not an external general praise, but a euphemistic narrative that deeply reveals the character's extremely noble inner spiritual world. On the screen, on the one hand, Cuigu struggled to carry a stretcher up the stone ladder to save her brother: on the other hand, the rolling hills, tall pines, and beautiful spots of light appeared alternately, forming a magnificent picture of youth. At this time, the movie episode "Velvet Flower" sounded, and the music was from the perspective of the film's protagonist. Like talking or singing, pour out your heart. The lead singer, teacher Li Guyi, uses the "breath singing method" that can be freely adjusted to make the melody ethereal and elegant. There is a hint of sadness in the beauty. It forms an elegant, delicate and implicit musical beauty. A simple, natural, friendly and vivid artistic effect is achieved.

Here, "Velvet Flower" is not a simple repetition of the meaning of He Cuigu's arduous climb. Instead, she praises her lofty thoughts and beautiful soul with beautiful singing. The film interlude successfully exists as an independent factor relative to the picture. Lyrical music and images of grueling climbs. The characters' inner world and the meaning of their external actions are simultaneously revealed from different sides, giving the characters a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional feel. The effective use of the movie episode "Velvet Flower" brings a huge audio-visual shock to the audience

"Velvet Flower" lyrics

There is a beautiful flower in the world

That It’s youth spitting out youthful beauty

The jingling hard bones bloom

The dripping blood dyes it red

Ah~ah~

Relvet flowers and velvet flowers

Ah~ la~

The fragrance is all over the cliffs

There is a heroic flower in the world

It is the brilliance of youth

Flowers carrying loved ones up the mountain