is often used in memorial service because of its good effect. This piece of music was composed by the late composer teacher Liu Huozhi in the 195s.
It is interesting to study the origin of the funeral music currently popular in China. It was produced in Yan 'an period, and its blueprint is Embroidered Pocket, a popular minor in northern Shaanxi at that time, which is supposed to be adapted from a love song minor.
When Comrade Liu Zhidan died, considering that there was no formal funeral music of our own at that time, a talented composer (I don't know who it was) treated the music of Embroidered Pocket, which was familiar to the people in northern Shaanxi at that time, as a funeral music, and the effect was not bad. Later, it was officially designated as the funeral music of our country.
After liberation, the funeral music was recorded in an orchestral version, in which the handling of big gongs and wind music appropriately showed the atmosphere of the funeral music.
Anyone who is interested in speeding up China's "Sorrow" by four times and playing it with a brisk and jumping rhythm (for example, using
suona) can also appreciate the charm of the original love song minor. This is the magic of music.
There is no fixed formal funeral music in the west. Requiem, also known as Requiem Mass, is a musical form played at religious funerals, so Westerners usually play Requiem Mass if they hold religious funerals after their death. Is Mozart's Requiem you are talking about his masterpiece Requiem? That piece of music has a feeling of desolation, horror and complete repentance that is not found in his other works. As long as I hear it, I can't help but feel reverence, lament and strong shock in my heart.
China's funeral music (rather than funeral music) is less emotional. In many parts of China, funeral music and wedding music are exactly the same. It's very different in the west. Although funeral music is a kind of ritual music, it was first completed by temples, and folk music clubs replaced religious organizations. China's funeral music is more expressive; And the west is more secular. This may explain why it developed into a musical genre (Chopin, Beethoveen,etc.) in the West. In China, they are a living continuation of ancient temple music.
Perhaps this stems from their different religious connotations.