Ode to the Red Flag includes three songs: "The East is Red", "March of the Volunteers" and "The Internationale".

The symphonic poem "Ode to the Red Flag" was written in 1965. The composer Lu Qiming used the red flag as the theme and described the scene of the first five-star red flag being raised when the Republic of China was founded. The work has been widely circulated for more than 50 years since its release and has become one of the classic masterpieces of Chinese symphonic music.

"Ode to the Red Flag" covers a number of music scores, including "The East is Red", "March of the Volunteers", "The Internationale", etc. In the end, the variation mode of "The East is Red" is used, allowing Overall sublimation. In the process of fusion of musical elements, the structure of multiple elements is realized, and the most critical information is the mixture of multiple elements in the tune through the form of variations.

From the perspective of the environment and emotion constructed from musical elements, "Ode to the Red Flag" mainly has two emotional expression factors, one is passionate and high-pitched emotion, and the other is low-turn and tactful emotion.

Creative background of "Ode to the Red Flag":

In 1965, in order to hold the "Shanghai Spring International Music Festival", Shanghai began to openly solicit performances. At that time, when the organizers were selecting the preliminary programs submitted by various units, they believed that the number of main theme works was not enough and the quality was not high. As a result, musicians such as He Luting, Ding Shande, Meng Bo, and Huang Yijun named Lu Qiming to hand over the creative task.

In order to compose the song, Lu Qiming spent a week thinking about it, trying to find an entry point to express the theme of "red flag". In the process of conception and creation, the father who was imprisoned and died heroically, the martyrs who generously died and fought for the next, and the five-star red flag rising at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, all appeared in Lu Qiming's mind like movie scenes. Finally, he completed the first draft of the song.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ode to the Red Flag