Cheng Xiaoyu also felt that he should do something for Chinese music at this time, and sat on the bed and began to write the first article, he planned to write a series to lead Chinese music that was still in a state of chaos at this time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although the status of folk music is not low, in practice, the employment of learning national musical instruments is far less popular than learning Western musical instruments.

Ethnic music is also a niche music, and although it can be seen at major galas, sales in audio stores are very embarrassing.

Cheng Xiaoyu wrote a paper of several thousand words freely, and posted the first long essay "Where is the future of national music and the popularity of national music in China?" (1)

"As you know, I'm a student of the opera and a part-time composer, and it doesn't seem appropriate for me as a person who learns Western musical instruments to talk about this issue, but since everyone has high hopes for me, I can barely talk about the future of national music and the popularity of national music in my country.

In fact, the "popularization of folk music" is largely a false proposition. At this stage, the counterpart to folk music should be Western serious music, including classical music.

Serious music has never been "popularized" and has become pop music, but has always nourished pop music, and at the same time has been countered by pop music.

For example, jazz originated in Africa, but the formation of jazz is inseparable from classical music, which in turn influenced serious music in the West.

Another example is the pop electronic music that is emerging in the United States, which originated from a series of pioneering explorations of figurative music and electronic music in the serious music industry in the 50s and 60s of the last century.

In fact, folk music is the same, there is no need for national music to turn itself into pop music, as long as it can provide nutrients belonging to the local nation for the development of Chinese pop music, this is a good thing.

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For the "poison" of the Chinese style, to be precise, the Chinese style cannot be counted as a musical style, but you can see it as a cultural phenomenon or cultural concept.

Common characteristics of Poison's Chinese-style pop songs are:

1. Use Chinese folk musical instruments in the arrangement and orchestration, such as guzheng, erhu, etc

Second, the palace tone five tones

3. Add rich Chinese cultural elements to the songs, such as opera and ancient poems

The above three points are the three most obvious characteristics of the current Chinese style pop songs, the reason why it cannot be seriously called "style", is because the Chinese style pop songs we usually hear are actually integrated with a lot of Western music elements, if you are interested you can study its characteristic structure, as for the style, you can see it as a pop music Tai Chi phenomenon with Chinese elements.

But it doesn't qualify as a musical style. (To be honest here, it does not mean to belittle the Chinese style.) ）

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There is a kind of religious worship running through the inheritance of Chinese folk music, and it is simply inconceivable to belittle it in the slightest, and this attitude has continued from ancient times to the present.

And we Chinese people, I feel as if there is always a kind of "consciousness of tone", what is the consciousness of tone, as if I have to use the original tune to change and adapt any new work.

In the folk, there is a very typical example, that is, the "old eight plates" (notation), and those who want to learn folk instrumental music will definitely come into contact with this. This old eight-board is a basic tune, conjuring up a lot of tunes, a large number of eight-plate bodies in Shandong music, those guzheng tunes are all changed from this tune, the same length, the same key, and some tones are similar.

Yue Opera, Yue Opera is 1233122-i, the 2 tones of the previous sentence are unstable, and there is no feeling of ending: 23312321-i, 1-The next sentence, it is over, there is a sense of ending (self-deprecation and manual funny). (Re-notation, this is a sentence from the violin concerto "Liang Zhu" I wrote).

In fact, a Yue opera actor, she sings a hundred sentences on stage, which is fifty back and forth (manual funny). But don't look at it, she is also very capable. Using various methods, changes in rhythm, tone, style, etc., this is of course the composition method of our Chinese music.

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Oops, I seem to have talked too far. Okay, back to the question of creativity. Therefore, in qin music, our great motherland has this music culture, and guqin music has a history of 3,000 years. With a history of more than 3,000 years, there are only about 600 tunes, and 3,000 tunes include different versions. There are fifty or sixty different versions of "Flat Sand and Falling Geese".

So we have a rich heritage, but we don't have much left behind. The guqin is the most, removing different versions, more than 600 tunes, known as 3,000 pieces. Claims, I think it's claims, just claims, it's normal for a piece to have different versions, different rheology.

You can't count this tune into five tunes, what 600 into 3,000, it's our encouragement of our national pride, our morale, uh, don't forget at this time, don't forget the real situation, don't be too proud (manual funny).

When I was in school, the guqin was the oldest and the oldest or something, and some people criticized Western music as if it was worthless. Actually, you haven't heard Western music, you don't understand Western music, you don't know how brilliant and great other people's music has developed, and you don't understand. You just talk about yourself, as if you are growing your own ambition, but in fact you are showing that kind of weakness, that kind of ignorance.

If you have this kind of thinking, you come to develop national music, and you are a dead end.

Of course, I'm not saying that folk music can't be popularized, but if you want it to become popular, you must put aside your reserve and accommodate it in the system of modern music. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu's "whisper" immediately attracted countless eyes, of course, only professionals are qualified to compare with him, and most of the ordinary people who eat melons only understand that Cheng Xiaoyu is saying in the middle: "Huaxia style is not qualified to be called a music style", I can't understand anything else, but this sentence is understood.

Isn't this just a grape that can't be eaten and said that grapes are sour?

So the fans of poison "medicine powder" stopped doing it and began to swipe the screen frantically under Cheng Xiaoyu's "whispers".

"Do you think you're hanging a lot, you have the ability to talk about your works?

"I only know how to praise foreigners' stinky feet and write a few pop songs, but I don't know how big the world is. ”

"The Chinese culture is broad and profound, Qi is something that two devils like you can understand?

"As a student of the Department of Folk Music, although I think what Mr. Cheng said is very reasonable, but he only said the problem, but did not say how to solve the problem, but seeing that Director Cheng's target of this article is 'one', then there will be a follow-up, sit back and wait for Director Cheng's opinion. ”

"As a fan of 'Guilty Crown', I feel that Mr. Cheng's writing is ungraceful, so it is better to write a better work to respond. ”

"I am also a student of folk music, I can understand what Mr. Cheng said, but I am also very confused, where is the future of folk music? Among them, the Chinese orchestra is a kind of music organization that appeared in the 50s, and the spirit is copied from the Soviet national orchestra (in the earlier days, in order to resist the erosion of the decadent culture of the Western bourgeoisie, the Soviet big brother launched the Soviet national band, the main composition is balalaika, bass balaika, dombra, accordion, etc....... It seems that I can't remember exactly), and the formation was almost a copy of a Western orchestra. However, it is not possible to forcibly make a correspondence between national and Western musical instruments, which is the first lesson of any folk music orchestration textbook....... Although the performance of the Chinese orchestra has improved a lot, to be honest, there is not much audience. I'm looking forward to Mr. Cheng's later articles. ”

"No matter how slippery you say, you also need works to speak, "Poison" of "East Wind Break" and "Huo Yuanjia" have undoubtedly created a genre, on the other hand, you have been stirring up foreigners' leftovers, even if "One Night in Beijing" is somewhat innovative, it is really not enough. ”

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But Cheng Xiaoyu's article was not originally written for ordinary audiences, his series of articles were written for people who studied music, because he was going to open a new door to Chinese music, and tomorrow he would show everyone the charm of folk music.

. (Huhu!At least three shifts tomorrow, try to make four shifts, and I feel like I'm going to be scolded again....... But teaching and educating people is really enjoyable, let Mr. Cheng satisfy his desire to be a teacher!) )