——CCTV Evening News
In the just-concluded "CCTV 2010 National Children's Song Grand Prix", the song "Dad's Snowflake" won the first place in the gold medal of this competition. , the song "Daddy's Snowflake" expresses the child's support and understanding for his father who is guarding the border. The song perfectly integrates the style of pop music, the new concept of the red patriotic theme, and the music style that is fully in line with the aesthetics of today's children. It won unanimous recognition from both adult and child judges in the competition, and became a popular nursery rhyme across the country. ——"Dazhong Daily"
In the "2012 National Migrant Song Composition Competition", the song "Abba's Back Fence" composed by Wang Long, a young musician from Shandong, won the gold medal in one fell swoop. On January 10, 2013, Wang Long went to Guangdong to attend the awards ceremony.
The award-winning song "Abba's Back" is a children's song. From the perspective of a little girl, it describes the life of left-behind children after their father goes out to work. From the child's perspective, it expresses the child's concern and longing for his father who is working outside. It is full of pure, simple and touching emotional power. Wang Long said that engaging in children’s music creation is actually not easy. “You need to be familiar with children’s psychology and hobbies, it must have the characteristics of the times, combine it with the current popular fashion styles, and it must be sublimated to express the hidden humanities at a high level. The real Children’s works contain some spiritual power that cannot be replaced by adult works.”
The National Migrant Song Composition Competition is led by the China Musicians Association and plans to hold three National Migrant Song Composition Competitions every two years. It is held annually (alternating with the Chinese Music "Golden Bell Award"), with a total span of six years. In 2012, 3 gold medals, 6 silver medals, 9 bronze medals, and 12 outstanding work awards were selected. Long is the only award-winning author in Shandong Province. As a national composition award, the competition strives to gradually increase people's awareness of migrant workers through periodic competitions and publicity, thereby better mobilizing the whole society to provide effective assistance to them. We continue to publish excellent works that reflect the real life, emotions, working status, and entrepreneurial journey of modern migrant workers, and provide spiritual food for migrant workers. ——Exclusive interview with Shandong Satellite TV's "Xinwen Lianbo" column
Shandong Satellite TV's "Xinwen Lianbo" column reported that not long ago, at the 2012 National Migrant Song Creation and Singing Competition led by the Chinese Musicians Association and held in Guangdong, a song The song "Abba's Back" stood out from more than 4,000 entries and won the gold medal. The composer of this song, Wang Long, is a 24-year-old young musician from Shandong.
Wang Long, the composer of "Abba's Back" said that the most gratifying thing is not actually winning the award. The spiritual and material encouragement is a great support for the music producer, but the children can really Having your work recognized and sung is the greatest reward for a composer.
The careful Wang Long discovered that children are not interested in traditional children's songs, but are keen on pop songs. An important reason is that the music style and production of traditional children's songs are out of date. In his own creation, Wang Long began to continuously apply various pop music elements and advanced electronic music production technology to the creation of children's songs, allowing the pop music style to perfectly integrate with children's music genres.
Wang Long said that in the entire process of music creation, sensibility and rationality are like two legs. Sometimes the left leg is in front and sometimes the right leg is in front. Sometimes your reason is in front, and sometimes your sensibility is in front. forward. From 2009 to the present, Wang Long has composed a number of popular and excellent songs for famous Chinese children's art groups such as famous child stars Lin Yiting, Ixan and China Radio Children's Choir, which have been widely praised by the music industry. ——Exclusive interview with Bewa.com
Wang Long said in the interview that although children's songs are the smallest type of vocal music genre, the technical content of an excellent children's song is not low, and Wang Long said Long said that writing for children requires a lot of consideration, and the best essence must be left to the children. Therefore, the simplicity of the music table in the creation of children's music is actually the result of the creators consciously making a lot of necessary simplifications.
Wang Long also said: "People who write songs for children must be professionals. People who are engaged in children's music creation must not just write children's songs. They must be a professional and excellent musician who can examine what is from a macro perspective." After systematic study of music, I came up with the idea of ??writing a batch of music for contemporary children that has the characteristics of the times and is in line with the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, combining fashionable and popular music. Musical elements to create children's songs that keep pace with the times.
When it comes to the future of children's music, Wang Long hopes that more young songwriters can devote themselves to the creation of children's music. The essential elements of music that are good and excellent in children's music are definitely Very professional, children's music seems simple but is actually very difficult. You need to constantly make subtractions during the creation process. This is the sublimation of your own creation. This is a process that you must go through when you go through a circle and then come back to break through the bottleneck. It is good for musicians to consolidate their musical skills. ——Shandong Normal University News Network
The song "I am China's Little Dream Baby" composed by Wang Long, a young teacher at the Conservatory of Music, was broadcast live to the world on China Online TV Station "2015" on February 11, 2015 (Little New Year's Eve). It was broadcast for the first time in the "2020 CCTV Online Spring Festival Gala" and caused a heated discussion. It will be on CCTV-1 on New Year's Eve on February 18 to meet with viewers across the country. In 2015, the online Spring Festival Gala set up a mascot virtual host for the first time - Mengwa. This "Mengwa" is the character in a public service advertisement that everyone is already very familiar with. The little girl in the painting is simple and sweet, with a cute expression in her expression. The flavor of Chinese New Year pictures. It is reported that the shape of "Dream Baby" comes from the image of clay figures in Tianjin Clay Figure Zhang's "Chinese Dream" series of public service advertisements. Not long ago, Comrade Liu Qibao, Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, affectionately called the little girl portrayed in "My Dream: Chinese Dream" "Dream Baby" when he inspected the Tianjin literary and art circles. Subsequently, the image of the cute "Little Dream Baby" gradually became popular. He is a household name as a propaganda painter with the theme of Chinese Dream. This time, the online Spring Festival Gala director team decided to bring the image of the "Mengba", who is wearing a red coat and beaming with joy, to the big stage, so that this cute little Mengba, full of New Year's flavor, can meet the global audience.
In order to successfully create the musical image of "Dream Baby", Zhu Hai, a senior writer and planner of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala crew, wrote the lyrics "I am China's Little Dream Baby" and searched for a girl with the qualifications across the country. A composer with long-term experience in writing children's songs and excellent music production capabilities, Wang Long, a young teacher majoring in composition at the Conservatory of Music of Shandong Normal University, was finally selected to be the music writing task of this "Mengwa". After receiving the creative task, Wang Long devoted himself wholeheartedly. According to the requirements given by the director team, he successfully created a fresh, bright and joyful musical image for Xiao Mengwa. It complements the image of Mengwa created on the stage and has been unanimously recognized. Wang Long, this famous lyricist who collaborated with Che Xing, Li Zhong, Yu Zhuo'er, Pan Yuejian and other famous lyricists, wrote "Daddy's Snowflakes", "Kuafu Chasing the Sun", "Abba's Back Sword", "Lovely Tao", etc. The well-known producer of campus songs and children's music with popular song works perfectly integrates positive elements such as patriotism and inspiration with avant-garde and fashionable pop styles, and has once again successfully won the favor of both the music education community and children.
It is reported that the CCTV 2015 Online Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast on the first, second, third and fourth sets of CCTV respectively on the first, second and third day of the Lunar New Year.