@ Basic elements of music: The basic elements of music refer to the various elements that make up music, including the pitch of the sound, the length of the sound, the strength and timbre of the sound. These basic elements are combined with each other to form the commonly used "formal elements" of music, such as rhythm, melody, harmony, intensity, speed, mode, musical form, texture, etc. The formal elements that constitute a musician are the means of musical expression. The most basic elements of music are rhythm and melody.
1. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of the mid-tones in the music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of heavy beats and weak beats in music. Traditional Chinese music calls the beat "banyan", "ban" is equivalent to the strong beat; "eye" is equivalent to the sub-strong beat (middle eye) or weak beat.
2. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of the music are organized horizontally in an orderly manner according to a certain rhythm to form a melody. Melody is one of the most important means of expression in the complete musical form. The progression direction of a tune is endlessly changing, and there are three basic progression directions: "horizontal progression", "upward" and "downward". The direction in which the same sound progresses is called horizontal progress; the direction from bass to treble is called ascending; the direction from treble to bass is called descending. Common ways of progressing tunes include: "repetition of the same tone", "progression" and "jump forward". The progression according to the adjacent notes of the scale is called a progression. A jump in the third degree is called a minor jump, and a jump in the fourth degree or above is called a major jump.
3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chords" and "harmonic progressions". Chords are usually sound combinations formed by three or more tones that overlap vertically (simultaneously) according to certain rules. The horizontal organization of chords is the harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious color effects of thick, light, thick and thin; it also has the function of forming phrases, dividing sections and ending music.
4. Strength: the strength of the midrange of the music.
5. Speed: how fast the music progresses.
6. Mode: The tones used in music are connected according to a certain relationship. These tones form a system with one tone as the center (the main tone), which is called mode. Such as major mode, minor mode, my country's pentatonic mode, etc. The notes in the mode, starting from the tonic note and arranged from low to high, form a scale.
7. Music form: the horizontal organizational structure of music.
8. Texture: the combination form of each voice part in a polyphonic musical work (including vertical and horizontal combination relationships).
9. Melody: An organized, rhythmic and harmonious movement of sound formed through artistic conception. Melody is the basis of music, and the thoughts and feelings of music are expressed through it. @ Music Origin: It is impossible to check when human society began to have music. Before humans had language, they already knew how to use the pitch, strength, etc. of sounds to express their thoughts and feelings. With the development of human labor, chants to unify the rhythm of labor and shouts to convey information to each other gradually emerged. This is the most primitive prototype of music. When people celebrate harvests and share the fruits of labor, they often beat stone and wooden tools to express their feelings. Joy, joy, this is the prototype of the original musical instrument.
1. The legend of the origin of stringed instruments
The earliest stringed instrument in the world is the Chinese guqin, also known as Yaoqin, Yuqin, and lyre. Guqin is an instrument that has been popular in the Zhou Dynasty. , it has a history of at least more than 3,000 years. It was only called "guqin" at the beginning of this century. There are posthumous legends about the creators of the Qin, such as "Xi Fuxi made the Qin", "Shennong made the Qin", "Shun made the five-stringed Qin to sing the southern wind", etc. It can be seen that the Qin has a long history in China. "The Book of Songs·Guan Ju" has "A graceful lady, the harp and harp are friends", and "The Book of Songs·Xiaoya" also has: "The harp and harp beat the drums to control the ancestors of Tian" and other records.
2. The legend of the origin of wind instruments
Ancient Chinese history records that in the Huangdi era five thousand years ago, there was a musician named Ling Lun who entered the Western Kunhua Bamboos are picked from the mountains to make flutes. At that time, there happened to be five phoenixes flying in the sky, and he made laws according to their sounds. Although this story cannot be completely believed, it can be regarded as a mysterious legend about the origin of wind instruments.
3. Ancient Chinese Music
The first emperor of China, the Yellow Emperor, was the famous king who created the calendar and writing five thousand years ago. At that time, in addition to the aforementioned Ling Lun, there was also a musician named "Fuxi". It is said that Fuxi had the head of a human and the body of a snake. He was conceived in his mother's womb for twelve years.
He played a harp with fifty strings. Because the tone was too sad, Huang Di cut off half of the harp and changed it to twenty-five strings.
In addition, in the legend of the Huangdi era, Shennong was also a musician. He taught people to farm, tasted herbs and discovered medicinal herbs. He also created the five-stringed qin@"MC" originally means emcee, that is Host, because the pronunciation of emcee is [ 'em'si: ] which is exactly the same as "MC". Therefore, in the usual expression process, the abbreviation "MC" is used instead of "emcee".
"MC" can also be understood as Micphone Controller, which is the person who "controls the microphone". That is, the person who controls people's mood when dancing and creates an atmosphere of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. Basically, rap is the so-called RAP. Therefore, many rappers will add "MC" or something in front of their stage names, such as the famous Taiwanese Rap group Mc HotDog and the famous MC Hammer in the past few years. After years of inheritance, MCs now need to have many abilities, such as being able to stir up the atmosphere, host, RAP, and improvise (free style). He is not only a performer, but also has the function of a messenger of Hip Hop culture. Therefore, the content and form of his performances can be divided into performance types from different fields and factions, such as East Coast, West Coast, non-mainstream, etc. Of course, an MC with a distinctive personal color can further promote the popularity of catchphrases, music and clothing. This can also be seen from the fact that so many black singers endorse clothing brands. It is not easy to be an MC in China, because there are not that many producers in China who are familiar with this type of performance. At most, you will feel fresh when you see the performance at a PARTY. However, judging from the current situation where love songs are flying all over the place, it is necessary to start rap. The market is relatively difficult. It would be much easier to start with R&B. However, currently there are very few MCs in China who can add some melody and singing skills to their works. In fact, most MCs still hope that everyone can start from the perspective of "play", which is the real element of black music. Only full of joy and happiness. Only in this way can we find room for performance in the current music market where "love songs come first". @Hip-Hop is a cultural term, including Rapping, DJing, Graffiti, and Breaking
Rap originated in the 1960s, while Hip-Hop as a musical understanding originated in In the early 1970s, its predecessor was RAP (sometimes with a little R&B added).
Hip-Hop Literally, Hip means hip and Hop means swing. Together they are a light twisting of the hips, which is the disco style of the United States (of course not like us, they are swinging the hips, we are Head-_-) originally refers to the embryonic stage of hip-hop (that is, what we used to call break dancing), and later gradually developed into a huge concept-the Hip-Hop culture we are talking about now also includes those baggy clothes. , heavy pure gold jewelry, and the oral habit of "YoYo? what's up?" - in short, it is the lifestyle of black people in slums in the United States and their "style".
The origin of Hip-Hop can be summarized by the word "poor". Why wear one size larger? In addition to being convenient for sports, most black families have a large number of people but little income, so the older brother will wear clothes that are too small for the younger brother to wear. This is how the style of huge clothes is formed; why is there graffiti? This thing was first used as a symbol to divide the spheres of influence between various gangs in the neighborhood. Later, it became more and more beautiful and exquisite, and developed into folk art; why is there hip-hop? Because they didn’t have money to go to dance halls, and racial discrimination still existed at that time. Even if you had money, you might not be able to have fun in a white dance hall. Why are pure Hip-Hop works mainly black and always contain swear words? Because these black youths on the streets have no future or hope, they hate them much more than they love.
Hip-hop: (broadly speaking) is a culture, cultural phenomenon, cultural movement and lifestyle originating from the streets.
Hip-hop: (narrow sense) includes four main aspects: MC, DJ, Dance (dance, specifically hip-hop dance, also known as street dance) and Graffiti (graffiti), streetball, beatbox, etc. for supplement.