What are the musical characteristics of national instrumental music?
Introduction: my country’s traditional national music is divided into three categories, and its titles include “nominal titles” and “symbolic titles”. The musical structure is divided into Sanqu and Suite. The following are the musical characteristics of ethnic instrumental music that I have carefully compiled for you. You are welcome to refer to them!
Section 1 Types of Traditional National Instrumental Music
According to the performance functions of my country’s traditional national instrumental music, it can be divided into three types of music:
1. A highly practical piece of music. Most of them are related to folk activities, such as celebrating new years, weddings and funerals, temple welcoming ceremonies, religious activities, etc.; some come from opera scenes or folk songs and dances. This type of music often sets off and exaggerates a certain atmosphere with its single and general mood. Such as "Zhonghua Liuban", "Deep Night", "Celebrating Harvest", etc.
2. Music that is mainly realistic. Express people's feelings by describing certain scenes and events in real life. Such as "A Hundred Birds Pay Attention to the Phoenix", "Dragon Race to Win the Gold", "Flowing Water", etc.
3. Music that is mainly freehand and expressive. Some directly express the characters' emotions, such as "Two Springs Reflect the Moon", "River Water", etc. Some borrow objects to express aspirations, borrow scenery to create emotions, embody emotions in scenery, and blend scenes. Just like ancient Chinese poetry and painting, they pay attention to artistic conception and charm, and the way of expressing emotions is inherently implicit. Such as "Fishing Boat Sings Evening", "Three Plum Blossom Lanes", etc. Section 2: Titles of Traditional National Instrumental Music
my country’s traditional national instrumental music all have titles. There are two types of titles: "nominal titles" and "indicative titles".
1. Nominative title
It only has the function of the title of the song and has no direct relationship with the meaning of the song. To understand music, one needs to understand the musical image formed by its melody, rhythm, mode, speed, intensity and other musical elements. Some titles are derived from ancient vocal music, Ci Pai music, folk songs, and original opera titles, such as "Lang Tao Sha", "Wannian Joy", "Man Ting Fang", "A Flower", "Jasmine", "Guan Gong" Passing Five Passes" and so on. Some titles come from structural features of the music. For example, "Sentences Double" means that each phrase in the music is repeated once and appears in pairs; the "Three Sessions of Plum Blossoms" means that the same theme appears three times. Some titles are named after the first line of the music, such as "Gongchishang", "Sihesi", etc. Some are named after the mode of the music, such as "Fan Tiao" and "Xiao Gong Tiao"; some are named after the purpose or performance form of the music, such as "Carrying a Sedan Chair", "Walking in the Streets", "Roading with Gongs and Drums", etc. Some pieces of music are composed of materials from several qupai, and their titles are often a combination of words originally drawn from several qupai. For example, "Liu Niang San Zui" in Guangdong music is composed of "Liu Qing Niang" and "Three Zui". When faced with this kind of title, be careful not to read it literally.
2. Significant titles
This type of title is drawn up by folk artists, literati or musicians based on the content of the music. Therefore, the title reflects the author's understanding of the content of the music. understanding. Significant titles generally have strong generality. They use summarized and concise words to remind the content of the music, a certain artistic conception, a certain emotional atmosphere or a certain event. The listener can understand the music based on the hints of the title and the association with the musical image of the music. Section 3: The musical form structure of traditional ethnic instrumental music
my country’s traditional division method divides ethnic instrumental music into Sanqu and Suite. Sanqu refers to a piece of music composed of one tune or melody; suite music refers to a piece of music composed of several tunes or paragraphs. Common structural types are roughly as follows:
1. Single song style
Qupai is the smallest structural unit in the form of national instrumental music. A song can be composed by repeating it many times. A piece of music can also become an integral part of a suite. A single song style is a musical structure composed of a piece of music.
2. Variations
When a piece of music consists of the repetition of a tune (or melody), if there are changes every time it is repeated, a variation is formed.
3. Loop type
Two tunes (or tunes) in a piece of music appear repeatedly in a cycle, or a tune (or tune) appears repeatedly more than twice, in between Insert new parts, which are loop bodies.
4. Couplet style (set of songs) The structural form of music composed of many tunes (or tunes, patterns) connected together is the couplet style. Couplet music often adopts the principle of "slow-medium-fast" or "loose-slow-medium-fast-loose" in terms of tempo.
5. Synthesis
In a piece of music, two or more structures are combined, or a certain structural principle is the main one, and there are elements of another structure. called a complex. Common ones in traditional music include "cycle and variation" and "couple and variation". ;