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What is the creative background of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto?

In the drama "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", Zhu Yingtai disguised herself as a man and studied in the academy. She met Liang Shanbo and fell in love with each other. When the two decided to get married, they would forever When they were together, because of the words of the matchmaker and the promise made by their parents, the two were separated by life and death, which inevitably made people sad. However, in the end, Zhu Yingtai left with Liang Shanbo, and the two of them turned into butterflies, but they were not exhausted. Sigh the beauty of love. In music, every scene is vividly expressed through the performance of musical instruments.

"Butterfly Lovers" absorbs the melody elements from Yue Opera and is a violin concerto. The author summarizes the main plot of the story into the musical performance content of three parts of the music, and integrates these three parts into the structural framework of the traditional European sonata style: Caoqiao Sworn Betrothal, Yingtai Resistance to Marriage and Butterflies in the Grave as the musical elements. The content of the display part, the development part, and the recapitulation part show the loyalty of young men and women to love and the accusation of feudal ethics. The final description of the butterfly transformation is very romantic. It can be said to be the finishing touch of the whole song and is sung with Zhejiang Yue Opera. As material, it successfully integrates Chinese national music and Western composition techniques, and artistically reproduces this moving story in the form of music.

At the beginning of the music, the music presents a scene of bright spring, with birds singing and flowers fragrant, and it softly interprets simple and beautiful love. The love at that time was shy and pure, making people yearn for it after listening to it. . Then we entered the theme part. The difference between this part and the previous part is very clear. It is no longer beautiful, and the music seems more lively and cheerful. This part fully plays out the life scenes of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai's classmates. After a burst of fast-paced music, it began to enter the adagio. The music was long and continuous. Under the background of the vibrato of the strings, it played the reluctant parting of Butterfly Lovers and the farewell. Zhu Yingtai left the college and went home. , it’s hard to say, I don’t want to leave, but I have to leave. The music then became low, and the brass performance showed that after Zhu Yingtai returned home, Zhu Yingtai's father wanted to marry Zhu Yingtai to his son Ma Wencai, a member of the Communist Party of China. Zhu Ying strongly resisted, and at this time the excitement The music also reveals to us the cruelty of ancient feudal forces, but in desperation, the farewell of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai on the balcony also made us extremely sad, wishing that they could stay together and fly together immediately. Under feudal oppression, Zhu Yingtai chose to live and die with her true love. At the end of the music, echoing the previous part, the music gradually becomes clear, it is no longer a sunny love, but the brilliance of love. Zhu Yingtai crashed into the tombstone, and the tombstone cracked. Zhu Yingtai jumped into the grave. Two butterflies flew out of the grave, played with each other, and flew to the distant sky to find their happiness, leaving endless wild thoughts to the world... …and the music ended. After the music ends, I will still be immersed in it, recalling the beginning and end of this story, sighing for their fate, praising their love, and unable to wake up from it for a long time.