The most murderous ancient song: Guangling San
"Guangling San", also known as "Guangling Zhixi". It is a large-scale piano piece in ancient times and is one of the top ten famous ancient pieces in my country. It has appeared since at least the Han Dynasty. There have always been different opinions on its content, but the general view is that it is connected with the piano music "Nie Zheng Assassins the King of Han". The current common view is this. "Guangling San" has a total of 45 sections, describing the story of the warrior Nie Zheng's assassination of the King of Han. At that time, Nie Zheng's father made a sword for the King of Han, but he violated the deadline and was killed by the King of Han. Nie Zheng heard that King Han liked to listen to the piano, so he wanted to pretend to be a piano player and get close to the King of Han. In the mountains, he hired a teacher to teach him how to play the piano. In order to pass the checkpoint without being recognized, he painted his cheeks with paint and knocked out his teeth with rocks; in order to change his voice, he swallowed coals of fire to make his throat hoarse. After many years, he finally became good at playing the piano. One day, he was playing the piano under the gate of the capital. "The spectators were like a crowd, and the horses and cattle stopped listening." Koreans were all conquered by his piano skills. When the King of Han learned that there was such a master at playing the piano, he sent someone to bring him into the palace to perform. When entering the palace, Nie Zheng hid the dagger in the belly of the piano. The music he played won praise from the king of Han and his ministers. At this moment, Nie Zheng suddenly pulled out his dagger and stabbed King Han to death. Then he cut off his eyelids, lips, nose, and ears, completely disfigured his face, and committed suicide. The Koreans exposed his body on the street and offered a large sum of money to find out the assassin's surname and place of origin.
No.1 description of the killing atmosphere of war scenes: House of Flying Daggers, a classic among classics
"House of Flying Daggers" is widely circulated and is one of the traditional pipa songs, also known as "Ambush from Flying Daggers" Huaiyang Pingchu". The existing score of this piece was first seen in "Pipa Xing" compiled by Hua Qiuping in 1818. The music describes the final battle of the Chu-Han War in 202 BC. The Han army used an ambush formation from all sides to defeat the Chu army. Xiang Yu committed suicide in Wujiang River and Liu Bang won. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, in the "Biography of Tang Pipa" in "Si Zhao Tang Ji", it was recorded that the pipa player Tang Ying once played a piece of "Chu and Han": "When the two armies fought in a decisive battle, the sound shook the heaven and earth. , The roof tiles are flying down. As you look closer, you can hear the sound of golden drums, swords and crossbows, and the sound of people and horses...it makes those who hear it feel excited at first, and then become frightened and unable to cry. "The scene painted is so touching. The sound and look are very similar to today's "Ambush from Flying Daggers".
The above are the classics of ancient music with murderous aura
Among the modern ancient musical instruments, the murderous aura is relatively strong
Chang Jing's "Li Xian" , adding the flavor of modern music
The "Li Xian" album was launched by Beijing Openmusic Music Production Company. It was jointly created by China's most cutting-edge producer Ouyang Yongliang and guzheng player Chang Jing, and successfully achieved the oldest music in the East. The best fusion of musical instruments and modern music. The cover of the album says: The guzheng is the soul, the rhythm is the soul, the time-space blurred cut-and-paste mixing formation is superb, there are no hidden lines, you can hear thousands of horses and thousands of troops, like the shadow of swords of light. Ouyang Yongliang & Chang Jing, auditory hallucinations on the future guzheng. Indeed, the zheng is one of the oldest plucked instruments in my country, with a history of more than 2,000 years. It is good at expressing beautiful and lyrical tunes, and can also express majestic movements. The ancients once used vivid verses such as "Playing the zheng with great joy, and the new sounds are so wonderful," and "The guests sat at the banquet without saying a word, and a line of mourning geese made thirteen sounds" to describe the state of the zheng's playing art that has reached a state of relaxation.
"Li Xian", Li Xian's arrow, here refers to the penetrating power of music, and also refers to music that departs from the conventional performance method. Music that is no longer bound by the strings and is above the instrument itself. Everything is in every note. When you listen carefully, you will feel the magic and shock of music like never before. "Li Xian" strives to embody an extreme musical concept, that is, interspersing traditional guzheng performance with the most popular music elements such as Hip-Hop and Rap, cleverly combining China's oldest musical instruments with modern music. As for the processing of various sound effects (such as water sounds, chirping sounds, etc.), the classical guzheng is not capable of it at all. The whole album is full of "murderous spirit". When first conceiving this song, the creator broke the rules and adopted a "no score" method of composition. The name "Li Xian" reflects the strong pursuit of "music beyond the instrument itself".