The top ten famous songs of Guangdong music include "Backgammon", "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon", "Rain Beats the Plantains", "Double Voices of Hate", "Yang Cuixi", "Jackdaws Playing in the Water", "Linked Button", "Walking Horse" and "Autumn Moon over the Flat Lake" "The Orioles in the Willows".

1. "Backgammon"

Lv Wencheng's song. The music score was first published in 1938 in Shen Yunsheng's "Qinxing Music Score". The author is a musician who has made significant contributions to the formation and development of Guangdong music. He is good at playing Gaohu and composing music. "Bubugao" is his representative work and is widely circulated.

2. "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon"

In 1935, when Ren Guang was the director of the program department of Shanghai EMI Records, he and Nie Er wrote a number of songs for the EMI Chinese Band Recording of music. "Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is one of them, composed in 1935. The music vividly depicts the vast night sky with a pentatonic melody rich in national colors, the free progression of fifths, the alternating playing of flute and erhu, the light rhythm of plucked instruments, and the spacious tone of plucked strings and plucked bass instruments. of charming scenery.

3. "Rain Beats the Plantains"

The music score first appeared in "Music Reading of String Songs" compiled by Qiu Hechou around 1917. It is one of the outstanding early pieces of Guangdong music. The music begins with a bright and smooth melody to express people's joy. Then a series of split short sentences, the rhythm suddenly fluctuates, and you can still hear the sound of rain hitting the plantains, and then you can see the whirling and dancing plantains, which is full of southern charm.

4. "Double Voices of Hate"

An earlier traditional piece of Guangdong music. Guangdong music has strong linguistic characteristics. The music takes the folklore story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as its theme, expressing people's resentment towards feudal marriage and their yearning for a happy life. The music is like a complaint, full of sorrow and lingering sadness. Through the dim colors of the feather mode, coupled with the extremely slow speed of the performance and the use of various slippery fingers, the music is deep and pathos.

5. "Yang Cuixi"

The music is smooth and melodious, showing the freshness, beauty and bright melody of Guangdong music.

6. "Jackdaws Playing in the Water"

"The Hungry Horse Rocks the Ling" was originally a piece of music with the pipa as the main instrument. It was passed down by Guangdong pipa player and composer He Liutang and became popular around 1920. The melody of the music is lively and lively, with unstable rhythm and pauses and other sound patterns, depicting the image of a hungry horse rattling a bell. The melody adopts the seven-tone palace mode, and the two tones Si and fa are prominently used in the progression of the melody, which is quite distinctive.

7. "Serial Button"

The famous Guangdong music master Yan Laolie adapted it from the traditional ditty "The Widow's Complaint". The original song is a piece of music played with a suona, which can also be sung with lyrics. It is a song for a widow to express her sadness. It expresses the sadness and sadness of widows in the feudal era who lived a hard life and were discriminated against. The tune is low and sad.

8. "Walking Horse"

This is an excellent early piece of Guangdong music. "Walking Horse", also known as "Walking Horse Hero", has a bright rhythm and lively melody, expressing people's excitement and high spirits.

9. "Autumn Moon over Pinghu"

"Autumn Moon over Pinghu", also known as Drunken Taiping, is the masterpiece of Guangdong famous music master Lu Wencheng. Already popular in 1930. The music score was published in the fourth volume of "Chinese and Western Music Scores for String Songs" published in 1934. According to Lu, he visited Hangzhou and was moved by the scenery. He absorbed the materials of Zhejiang folk music and composed it. Therefore, this song has both the style of Cantonese music and the charm of Jiangnan music.

10. "Singing the Orioles in the Willow Waves"

Guangdong music, the music was composed in the early 1930s. The music simulates the lyrical melody and the light and dancing warblers' calls, depicting the natural scenery of willows swaying in the wind and birds singing on the branches. After listening to it, it makes people think deeply about the beautiful scenery, the pleasant scenery of birds singing and the fragrance of flowers.