Songs gēqǔ (English: song)
Songs have lyrics, sung by a vocal kind of music, can be instrumental accompaniment, there will be no instrumental accompaniment, separate from the human voice singing. Solo by one person, can people singing in unison, or more and more voices, ensemble or chorus.
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Folk songs - is a popular song, of a general Anonymous, pop lyrics, singing around the people they care about or something. If the situation reflected the times, often fend for themselves, the ancient Chinese rulers often sent to collect folk songs, in order to understand the people, ancient literature, "The Book of Songs" contains a lot of time on the folk songs. If you reflect the common human themes such as love, often long-term civil sung, and the ever-changing sound, because of its beautiful melody, adapted by musicians gather, such as writing many of the Xinjiang Wang Luo folk songs.
Art songs - usually written by the musician, the lyrics are mostly well-known poets, poems _set_ to music by the musicians under, with accompaniment, since the 19th century, the West is so many songs and opera productions. There are also scores with a popular melody, lyrics sang the poet in accordance with the scores, such as the Song of the word. Generally more artistic art song, essentially unchanged due to record the actors in accordance with the word sung.
Modern songs - songs from the specialized division of modern writers and song writers of the word to complete, sometimes for a particular actor in accordance with their singing style and ability to be writing itself, and sometimes singing in unison for the popular song writing for the masses. More popular modern songs do not need professional actors generally can all sing, but the popular short-lived, even the best pop songs generally only one generation, the younger generation do not generally popular among the older generation like the songs. Changes as often as clothes.
Western songs are divided into: trip-hop, world music, new age, dream-pop, classical pop, acappella, bossa nova, post rock, britpop, dub, electro, jungle, drum'n'bass, big-beat, brit -hop, break beat, psychedelic trance, trance, ambient, techno, electrophonic music, folk, chamber pop, synth pop, orchestra, gangsta rap, house, r & b, disco, punk, soul, reggae, rap, pop, art rock 35 class.
Songs, but also a kind of emotional expression, for human emotions to a certain extent.
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Pop singing is expanding with sound effects, Changes to shining stage art lighting rendering the atmosphere, using different methods of singing, _set_ dancing, karaoke, dancers, electro-acoustic instrument accompaniment, _set_ in one of the singing art of rap. The main features of the sound is entirely true voice singing, close to the living language. Singing style is gentle nature; a resounding strong; a folk style; a rock style; a rap narrative style; a musical form of queue; the art song form. Of the world, are also being constantly interacting with each other the development of infection was the strongest, most popular method of a concert.
Young people as the center of pop singing, but also greatly loved by middle-aged. Professional popular singer, sang old actor and the nation than the bel canto singing actor, compared to much shorter. Up to only eight or ten years time, made famous a few years to be replaced. Training mainly by its self-learning, general training will be on stage singing a few months. To make friends, learn the characteristics of popular singing, it is necessary to brief development history of China's popular singing. China's popular songs, due to national conditions and culture, determined by the national quality, has gone through several different stages of development. The total feature popular, fashionable, ethnic succession, has not changed.
Music history from the view, since after the end of the Tang Dynasty, the palace's gradual decline. Folk music (including opera, rap, etc.) growing up. To the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the local characteristics of the Opera has grown to nearly 400 species, 300 types of rap music, the entertainment for the high-brow National Instruments has gradually spread to all sectors of music lovers in the city.
The early 20th century, especially through the "Revolution" political changes, the public sectors of popular music has a new development. Shanghai as the center, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces played there a lot of practice, "Jiangnansizhu" a small string and wind ensemble music community, the representative track of "uptrend Song", "Song of Joy", "36", "Bank Street" and so on. Guangzhou as the center of Guangdong and Hong Kong is playing there a lot to learn Cantonese ditty (commonly known as Guangdong music) is a small string and wind ensemble society and its representative track with "Thunder without Rain", "down curtain," "Song of Triumph "" Dragon Boat Race, "and so on," Jiangnansizhu "Music With a large influx of Western culture, popular singing activities rapidly. Sung by a variety of cities around the popular minor. At this time the songs, mostly popular among the so-called all a performance, minor fill to a new way to sing words, mainly "Jasmine", "Lady Meng Jiang", "Wuxi King," "Dawn," "The small release cattle, "" River Red "," Su Wu sheep "," Drum "and so on. Published in a variety of small parts of the mobilization are numerous. Well-known writer, poet ANKANG Jiarui Long et al Head of Chinese folk songs issued in 11 provinces were collected more than 6,000 such cities in the first minor of the lyrics. In addition to the main pro-reform intellectuals, in order to promote the "new learning", in order to reform young elementary education, new schools for the positions around, but also the preparation, publication and sung a variety of so-called "School Songs . " Most of these songs to Japan, Europe and the United States and popular songs filled with new words, a collective approach to concert performance. There are "wake up any day", "Chinese Hero", "18 provinces of Geography and History", "Yangtze River", "Farewell" and so on. There was a small amount of songs to the tune spread from country folk lyrics, such as "Ode to the motherland", "Azolla", "Mian feminist" and so on. A few songs are new songs and writing words such as gong of the "Yellow River", Li Shutong's "Spring Outing" and so on.
54 after exercise, with the mass revolutionary struggle against imperialism and feudalism in depth, a massive mass singing events rapidly unfolded. These songs have continued past the "school music" kind of lyrics of songs written by way of their tunes both past popular urban minor and school songs, but also their regional and foreign revolutionary songs such as "La Marseillaise", "The Internationale" "Red Flag Song" and so on. At that time the most widely influential song is "Down with foreign powers," "the workers, unite," and so on. The singing revolutionary songs, no longer confined to the school context, but extends to all places of mass collections and collective activities. Performing object class from the knowledge extended to the workers, peasants and the general public. Thus, these songs form of relatively brief, usually without the accompaniment of popular songs. This kind of workers, peasants were the main activities and mass singing songs with lyrics written tradition, the Red Army at the time the revolutionary base areas and the Northeast Anti-Japanese joint Volunteers has been maintained. To 30 years, with Shanghai as the center of the coastal cities, then there were two new popular music. One is with the film industry's development and foreign music and dance entertainment and the introduction, beginning initiation of China's popular songs and dance entertainment music. Li Jinhui and outstanding leadership of the "moon musical community," the songs have great impact, "Peach Blossom River", "drizzle", "Special Express", "sister from loving you", "peanuts" and so on. Most of these songs is the melody of urban minor nature, with foreign dance (such as arc-trot, rumba, tango, etc.) mixed with the accompaniment of a product. Others of copying foreign music, but added a new word (such as "Special Express", "peanuts", "rose everywhere open", etc..) Music by these "bright moon Musical Society" performance, especially record companies irrigation singing, rapidly expanding its influence. Such combination of music and dance of pop music, known for its vulgar content, crude art, subjected to cultural and educational, music criticism and resistance induced. Later in the mass anti-Japanese national salvation movement in the form of increasingly move toward the climax, they gradually become depressed. The other is with the international and domestic, "the left" to carry out cultural activities in order to Nie Er, any light, An E, Zhang Shu, Lu Ji, who dominated the masses of workers, peasants actively reflect the reality of life, and all sectors of the general democratic aspirations of the masses of patriotic, revolutionary masses can understand and accept the "new" revolutionary songs. Progressive music that was mentioned in the "new music." Beginning, these "new revolutionary song", mainly in the form of film or drama episode. Among them, the impact of a prominent composer Nie Er's "road song", "pioneer", "Graduation Song", "Anthem," "female singer under the iron heel" of any light composed "Fishing" and "fighting back home to "Lu Ji composed the" New "918" minor "," to defend Madrid "and so on. At the same time, like yellow since the composition of the "War Song", "918", "blood songs" composed Chen Hong, "Chong Fenghao" He Andong composer of the "National Mobilization" and other patriotic songs, but also to mass forms of popular song writing. In the majority of young people have a profound impact. At that time there was even a group of art songs, for example: Huang Zi's "Three Wishes of the Rose," Chao's "How Can I call her" young Lord's "The River" and so on.
It can be seen from the latter half of the 30s, China's popular songs is different from the Western countries towards a path of development of popular music, and gradually formed its own characteristics and style. Popular music from Europe and the United States has basically taken this century serious music parted ways with them the way, mainly in order to meet the needs of urban entertainment, meet the entertainment business with the development of capital development. These rely mainly on music singers in popular music, the way that compiled and performed by musicians, rely on the public places of entertainment (such as bars, dance halls, nightclubs, etc.) performances and radio broadcasts to spread release. The artistic style of music and dance performances or most of the public on the social dance in close combination of self-entertainment. China 30 years since the latter half of the popular songs, mainly by the serious music of the musicians was the political struggle in order to meet the needs of the general public in order to carry out propaganda and public life in order to meet city needs the development of the film, mainly by Writing professional composer or songwriter singing activities carried out relying on the masses to spread. Most of its artistic style and the mass dance or dance performance is no direct link, but closer to the march and the simple folk songs or art songs. Such as Xian Xinghai's "Song of Salvation", "South March", He Luting's "Qiushuiyiren", "guerrilla song," Liu Xue An "wandering of the Fallen," "The Great Wall Ballad", any light "to come back," "bachelor" and so on.
During this period, thousands of Chinese pop songs and a few film songs showed obvious by the foreign music of popular entertainment, such as "you come again", "Night in Shanghai", "Forget not tonight," "Shangri-La "and so on, reflecting the social upper class in Shanghai, represented by a small number of the spiritual life of the exploiting class and taste requirements, of course, its impact extends to the general public classes.
The People's Republic of China since the founding, as was the history of political reasons, political activities of public songs and people dance in the musical life of the people are still dominant, and become the only popular song by the attention given to promoting the music genre. The entertainment of popular music is a long time suppressed condition. Even in the movie songs, some emphasis on lyrics, songs euphemism often considered unhealthy feelings of "soft song" and was criticized.
"Cultural Revolution" ended, the "order out of chaos" eliminate the last "Left" pernicious influence and implement the "reform and opening up, invigorating" approach, the Western popular music and Hong Kong, Taiwan, a variety of popular songs (including the last 40 puppet's popular in Shanghai and other cities during the part of movie songs) are with the records, cas_set_te tapes and film, television, radio and other media means for the influx. To some extent, these songs, popular songs for the masses to meet the diverse needs. However, with the deepening of reform and opening up the masses and aesthetic ability, raising the level of art appreciation, people want to provide both composers were able to reflect hot new period of life and social practice, but also to meet their demands for self-entertainment, beautiful sounding melodies rich and easy-sung lyrics of popular new songs. In this way the objective conditions, the late 70's and 80's has emerged a group of people like the popular, popular songs, such as, Shi Guang-nan's "Zhujiu Ge", "in the field of hope," Wang Ming's "girl looking for her brother with tears flow," "tasselflower" Kai Chuan's "corner of the song," Pi-based "Xiang Lian", Wang Liping, the "Sun Island", "the waves of joy fly out of Song," Liu Jin's " the sea as affectionate, "Gu Jianfen of" young friends to meet, "" me, "Fu inspection of the" Little Luo Hao "," Mother's Kiss, "" Hometown, "Guo Feng's" Let the world filled with love "and so on. The military life of pop music genre also appeared in "Good-bye Mom" (Nai City), "Jungangzhiye" (Shi-Zhao Song), "15 of the Moon" (Shi Xiang words, iron source song), "Wang Xingkong" (Stone Cheung words, iron source song), "Little Poplar" (Shi Heart Song), "A Dry White style" (Chen Zhe words), "Jungangzhiye", "man camp" (Yan Su words) so popular among the welcome Lyrical works. In addition, with the primary and secondary music education to young singing students singing songs based activities as well as access to new development, and the emergence of a number of the young people love the new songs.
The early 80s, the music scene, singing the Chinese pop music performers, mainly from the professional art organizations, such as Zhu Fengbo, Li Gu Yi, Cheng Fangyuan, ZHU Ming-ying, Su Xiaoming, Dong Wenhua, Mao Amin and so on. Singing popular songs was in fact has become a professional group performances, the performance of occasions and almost the same professional theatrical performances, especially in the media and publishing sector, driven by the emergence of popular song "hot", these popular songs singing and spread once formed a serious music and opera a strong impact.
The mid-regions of 80 various audio and video publishing company to establish and Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities have _set_ up in a hotel "bar" "Ballroom" and "music cafe" before beginning to have a special singing groups of Popular Music singer, and gradually specialized in these areas entertaining pop music concerts. There are a number of artistic groups of actors, such as: learning opera actor, learning vocal performer singing actor theory, learning dance, actors, instrumentalists, actors learn all have changed to popular songs. The same time, CCTV's "Popular Singing," Grand Prix, etc., introduced and endorsed a number of popular songs sung by famous singers. Such as Mao Amin, Wei Wei, Chen Rujia, Zhang Mi, Hang-day chess, Cheng Fangyuan, ZHU Ming-ying, Yu Jun Jian, Na Ying, Cai Guoqing, Xie Xiaodong, Tu Honggang, Hu Yue, Tian Zhen, Su Yue, Su Hong, Li Lingyu so. In short, the past few years singing popular songs in China surge in the number of singers, some of whom also star as the West as budding and rapid subduction, frequently alternating. Stage singing popular songs of the singer often welcomed by fanatical groupies. Popular songs gradually entertainment television programs, radio broadcasting, sound recording, accounting for the main position. In the song creation, there has been a lot of folk body works, such as "Beijing Accent from sentimental" party series song, "Loess Plateau", "Xin Tian You", "I love the home," "fence, a woman and a dog" movie soundtrack and so on. Very popular.
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