Guqin Music "Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon"

Poetry, painting, writing and music are in the same strain, that is to say, when we see a beautiful scene or a picture that touches us instantly, we often have thoughts and feelings. What should I do if I want to freeze this moment? Someone wrote a poem, someone wrote a beautiful paragraph, someone painted it, and someone may compose a song for it. No matter what form they take, they all express the same content. This is the truth that "poetry and painting are of the same origin, and songs and texts are of the same clan". Their common source is that unforgettable moment or beautiful picture.

When we add words to a song, can we also start with the source of the song-the picture and the artistic conception it creates? The answer is yes.

First, look at the picture and speak beautifully.

Not long ago, I saw a photo of an embroidered pavilion with a silk window engraved on it. The night outside the window is dim, the green tiles reflect the green trees, the lights inside the window are amiable, the atmosphere is elegant, and there seems to be a figure vaguely, suggesting that its owner must be a boudoir beauty. What is she doing? Maybe he is reading quietly, or playing the piano and reciting poems; Maybe you are embroidering, maybe you are crying at the blue light, missing your lover and living alone. This is the imagination space given by photos, and the artistic conception is subtle and beautiful.

I sent this picture to a friend far away. Unexpectedly, I flew back to a poem:

Suddenly I saw the Iraqis, as if at the window.

Vague figure, always visible.

I miss you every day and bend my head to read.

Send a short message to your heart, in the middle of the paragraph.

Another friend immediately became interested: "Can you limit the topic to the silk window and put this picture with a poem to express your feelings?" Let's name the inscription Tianjingsha. Let's compare it. "So, a poem entitled" Tianjing Sha Ling Window "begins:

The moon is full and the stars are sparse, the blue tile carving, the green tree carving,

Lingchuang solitary shadow tea stove.

Moran Hsinchu, the heart is dancing.

Moved by this, I will imitate it according to the above poetic conditions and metrical conditions:

The sun sets outside the window of Wu Tongxuan, and Zhu Lang oriole returns home.

Red furnace yarn warms the door.

The drizzle is quiet and the song is homesick.

Then I sent these to other friends and classmates. This idea quickly got a response. Three days later, on a snowy night, two poems with the same theme and rhyme floated out:

The trees in the Zhu window court are warm and dusk, so the garden is a movie house.

The wind in Gu Xiang is light and foggy,

Alone at night, where is the end of the world?

Blue lantern with oblique curtain in rainy night, falling flower is a phoenix tree and jade household.

Tea poems are not fragrant,

The piano is empty, and the half-song acacia is difficult to cross.

After all the four poems came out and tied together, we suddenly discovered a secret: although these poems were completely written by ourselves according to everyone's understanding and imagination, the central idea was very unified, and everyone unconsciously told a story of boudoir lovesickness under the night. Look at the plot and atmosphere, step by step. At first, the tone was calm and warm, and then gradually changed from sadness to injury. When the end reached its peak, there was an atmosphere of "empty house on rainy night, faint sadness, endless lovesickness and heartbroken sound".

I didn't expect a picture, four poems, and talking at the picture would lead to so many stories. It's really intentional to plant flowers, but unintentional to plant willow trees. This may be the beauty of "the homology of poetry and painting", but in fact, more exciting is yet to come.

Second, listen and add words.

How nice it would be to sing such a beautiful set of couplets with such harmonious and unified rhymes!

/kloc-One weekend morning more than 0/0 days later, I overheard the piano piece Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon, and immediately thought of our poetry group. Isn't it the truth in "Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon" that "time flies, youth is easy to get old, and old dreams are hard to get back"?

So while listening to the music, I recited it to the poem, and found that the music was completely harmonious with other places, especially the artistic conception, except for a few places that didn't match the rhythm of our poetry group, which was very seamless. In this way, with a little modification, the lyrics and lyrics are pasted together in less than 10 minutes, which is natural. The lyrics of the song are as follows:

After we finished our poems and sang in tune, I breathed a long sigh of relief, as if I had accomplished a great event, and my mood was particularly carefree.

? So, I immediately sent the same message to several people who wrote poems: "Unexpectedly, we were busy with poetry for two weeks. After hearing this song this morning, I bumped into it immediately. How amazing! It seems that all the fruits in the world have a cause, and maybe all the preparations are for the arrival of a certain moment. What should we call it? There is only one word: fate! It's really a poem meets a song, but it wins countless people! Try singing and see how it works? "

A few friends also cried. It is often said that fate is determined by nature and partly depends on people. If there were no previous efforts, how could there be today's achievements? This may be the relationship between career and fate!

Next, I will briefly talk about the development history of poetry and the beauty of singing, so as to better understand the beauty of poetry, ci, music and rhyme.

Third, the beauty of poetry singing

People often ask: "Is there a word first, then a song, or a song first, then a word?" For this question, if we understand the emergence and development of poetry, we will know the answer.

As we know, The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. According to legend, it was compiled by Confucius, a great scholar, with a total of 365,438+065,438+0, so The Book of Songs is also called "Three Hundred Poems". These poems are from the folk songs of the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, there was a special poetry collector in the court, who was responsible for collecting folk songs from all over the country and then giving them to the emperor for appreciation. What is the purpose of doing this? Because folk songs reflect the people's aspirations and sufferings, the rulers can observe the folk customs and evaluate their ruling effect through the emotions in folk songs. From this point of view, ancient poetry is not only the free singing of ordinary people, but also a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty, which has important political significance. The Book of Songs is divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode, among which "wind (national wind)" refers to folk songs and the folk customs reflected behind them.

It can be seen that the earliest poems are the words of folk songs, which are used for singing, so there are poems to have songs. Songs with lyrics are called songs; Music without lyrics is called pure music. These are two main types of music.

China's poems reached their peak in the Tang Dynasty, especially the metrical poems, which require neat words, even rhyming tones, beautiful rhythm, catchy and lasting aftertaste. Jia Dao was poor all his life, demanding poetry. Before he wrote the famous sentence "Birds stand in the trees by the pool, monks knock at the door under the moon", he repeatedly polished the words and meter, often chanting between lying up and walking, and changed the word "knock" for one year just to satisfy his own wishes. This ascetic pursuit earned him the title of "poet and poet slave".

In the Song Dynasty, Ci became the mainstream, completely separated from poetry and formed its own school. There are words specially used for singing, and the name of the epigraph is its metrical standard. Liu Yong was the first person to make an all-round innovation in Song Ci. When he was young, he took the imperial examination and failed many times, so he devoted himself to writing ci. His slow ci is both elegant and popular, and he is good at drawing lines. He was the most popular poet at that time. It is said that his song "Yang Liuan Xiao Feng Can Moon" spread all over Goulan Washe, streets and alleys. This is the great influence of Liu Yong's ci. To put it bluntly, he was a very popular songwriter in the Song Dynasty.

Sometimes, I often wonder, what kind of poem is the best and most beautiful?

? Observing and recalling the ancient poems we learned from primary school, we can find that good poems are not amazing works with strange language, gorgeous rhetoric, abstruse words and ungrounded atmosphere, but some ordinary sentences that can't be ordinary. For example, "it was noon when weeding, and sweat dripped down the soil." Who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard? "and" how much trouble can you have, just like a river flowing east ". They are straightforward and simple, and can be understood and recited by adults and children, so they are widely spread. Wang Zhihuan's "Mountains cover the day, the sea drains the golden river, and it opens three hundred miles to the next level", Du Fu's "Remember the wind and rain tonight, I don't know how many flowers to fold" and Su Dongpo's "When will the moon be bright?" Ask heaven for wine. I don't know what year it is tonight. "They are also unpretentious, without any whitewashing and boasting, but they have become classics that have been passed down through the ages. Does a good poem really need to be sublime, obscure, gorgeous and surprisingly attractive to survive to this day?

From this, we can draw a conclusion that poetry should be popular, popular and suitable for singing. Compared with those poems that can't be sung or are awkward and dull, who has longer vitality? If this standard is used to measure what is a good poem and what is a good word, the answer is obvious.

Having said so many digressions, let's go back to the lyrics of the piano music "Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon Dreams". I think it needs to be further revised and improved, slowly polished, and strive to be more popular and easy to understand, and sing comfortably and smoothly, with feelings and directly reaching people's hearts. I believe it is of great significance to use the standard of "singing" to write poems.

The good news is that a good friend of mine can listen to songs and write songs. After listening to the piano piece Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon, he quickly wrote down its music score:

Do you feel horrible, fascinated and envious when you see these figures like tadpoles?

This is the first happy event, and one more thing, one of my university teachers is learning guqin, and is going to translate the notation mentioned above into a standard guqin notation, and then play and sing.

In the eighty-sixth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Jia Baoyu saw Lin Daiyu practicing piano in Xiaoxiang Pavilion one day. He didn't know the ancient piano score and made a joke. He said that these symbols, like Shao, Xun, Dian and Yi, have a "nine" next to a "big" with a tick. What are these? Daiyu smiled and said the principle. In fact, it is the notation of China's guqin that has not been replaced for thousands of years-subtraction notation.

? Is this what Lin Daiyu said? Cao Xueqin said that this great writer, who finished the first draft of A Dream of Red Mansions in his twenties, is not only familiar with poetry, literature, calligraphy, painting, architecture, sculpture, jade, diet, classics, opera, Confucianism, Taoism, tea, embroidery and aesthetics, but also familiar with the art of piano. There is also a piece of Miao Yu's On the Qin in the book, which is very professional and profound.

So, what is subtractive spectrum? By using Chinese characters to reduce strokes, the fingering and phonemes of the left and right hands are marked with frugal strokes, which is the fingering mark of playing the piano. Even if we don't learn the piano, don't repeat Baoyu's mistake and lead a joke!

At this moment, I have one biggest wish, that is, I hope that the two happy events mentioned above can come true. The piano piece Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon is the work of young musician Su Yi. He is middle-aged, and he is my favorite composer. I believe he will become a famous pianist in a few years. I want to try a word for all his songs, which is a dream of mine.

What is the highest state of piano? The unity of heart and piano, and then up, is the unity of heaven and man. How do we do this? If you can play the piano, sing and write lyrics, then I think, when you play your own lyrics, sing your own thoughts and think of those beautiful or sad rhymes, you will naturally understand what the ancients said: "Harmony between heart and piano, harmony between man and nature".

Guqin has so much charm, let's talk about the last question. Perhaps, some people will say, "What's the use of making these things after all your efforts? Can you eat, drink and make money? "

Confucius made it very clear. He said that he didn't know the taste of March meat until he heard Shao's music. Because "anger forgets food, joy forgets worry, and I don't know that old age is coming." In other words, when people are working hard, they forget to eat, so happy that they forget all their troubles and don't even know that they are getting old! "

In fact, a person's life is a process. Whether you are busy singing and dancing, adding water to an ordinary earthen pot, complaining about others' grievances or suffering depends on what kind of living method you choose. Why do people "forget to eat when they get angry, enjoy themselves and forget their worries, and don't know that old age is coming?" Spiritual food is at work, much more delicious than simple material enjoyment. It can be seen that Confucius revealed another dimension and significance of life. Where is the meaning? Perhaps, in A Dream of Spring Flowers and Autumn Moon.