Characteristics and Singing of Shaoxing Opera Schools

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Formation and development

Yue Opera is popular in Zhejiang and Shanghai. Its predecessor was a songbook on the floor. Since 1906 was put on the stage, Loutai songbook has gone through several stages, such as Little Brother Class, Shaoxing Wenxi Male Class, Shaoxing Wenxi Female Class and Women's Yueju Opera. 1938 was officially called "Yue Opera".

At first, there was a popular folk art in Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, called "Singing the Earth Book", and these artists who sang the Earth Book formed a small troupe. This kind of performance is called "Tudu Class" or "Xiaoqu Class" because the clap of hands will make the sound of "Tudu". 19 10, the original form of Shaoxing opera "Xiaogeban" entered Hangzhou, and it was active in all parts of Hangzhou, and then it was continuously enriched and developed in performances.

Music and singing

The voice of Yue Opera is beautiful. Different schools have different singing methods, among which the singing method is the most original, the most prominent and the most influential.

Its musical singing method consists of two parts: harmonic singing.

In the organization of melody, each school has its own unique techniques and skills, and forms its own basic style through the changes of melody, rhythm and rigid eyes.

In singing methods, most of them focus on lyrics, aria, singing feelings and other aspects to show their unique personality, and form different charm beauty through the changes of voice, timbre and embellishment.

Genre characteristics

The singing feature of "Yuanpai" is soft and delicate.

The vocal characteristics of Yin School are lingering sound.

The singing style of "Fan Pai" is characterized by mellow and simple.

The singing feature of "Fu School" is beautiful and mellow.

The singing feature of "Xu School" is high and free.

The singing feature of "Qi Pai" is simple and smooth.

The singing feature of "Lu School" is graceful and gentle.

At first, Yue Opera only used drums and sandalwood to play festivals, and later it was accompanied by a band. After absorbing the musical elements of Shao Opera, it enriched and created its own section. Tones include four tones, ruler tones, flat chords and so on.

Stage and performance

The performance of Yue Opera is good at lyricism, mainly singing, and the performance is real and moving, which is very local in the south of the Yangtze River. Now there are two kinds of girls' classes and male-female co-productions.

Different schools have different performance characteristics, and different majors have different characteristics.

During Xiao Dan's trip, Bei Dan's performance was mainly "singing", supplemented by "doing".

Hua Dan's performance won with "workmanship" and his movements were agile and brisk.

Gui Mendan's performance "singing" and "doing" are very good, dignified, quiet and generous; The performance of the flower shirt is between the boudoir Dan and Hua Dan, which has both the status and dignity of boudoir Dan and the beauty and liveliness of Hua Dan.

Zheng Dan's movements are very stable.

Wu Dan's performance is good at martial arts and martial arts.

In the minority, the performance characteristics of scholars are free and easy, solemn and gentle.

Poor students are characterized by being shabby and pedantic.

The performance of officials and students has a certain frame and tolerance.

Wu Sheng's performance is both civil and military.

Old students pay equal attention to "singing" and "doing", while foreigners focus on "doing" and have strong performances.

Lao Dan's performance is characterized by being calm and sophisticated, and paying equal attention to singing and doing.

The clown's performance is characterized by humor, cunning and insidious, flexible and exaggerated movements and rich expressions.

Roles and costumes

The role of Yue Opera is from less to more, from simple to complete. At present, Yue Opera is divided into six major lines, including: Xiao Dan, Xiao Sheng, Lao Sheng, Clown (also known as Little Face), Da Mian.

Xiao Dan is divided into Sad Dan, Flower Dan, Boudoir Dan, Flower Shirt, Zheng Dan and wudan. Xiao Dan plays the role of young and adolescent women.

Sad Dan specializes in treating young and middle-aged women with tragic fate;

Hua Dan specializes in playing innocent, lively and intelligent girls;

Gui Dan plays the role of a noble family and a good girl;

Flower shirt plays an ancient young woman;

Zheng Dan mainly plays middle-aged women, dressed in plain clothes, and plays more supporting roles;

Wu Dan plays a female character who knows martial arts.

Xiao Sheng is divided into scholars, poor students, martial arts students, old students and foreigners. In the women's Yue Opera, Xiao Sheng is played by an actress. Xiao Sheng plays the role of a young man.

Confucian scholars, also known as "Confucian towel students" and "refined young students", mainly play refined Confucian scholars;

Poor students, also known as "shoes students" and "rags students", mainly play poor sons and poor children of poor families;

Officials and students mainly play the roles of ancient officials and dignitaries;

Wusheng mainly plays the role of young and middle-aged men who know martial arts. He is heroic, tall and straight.

Old students are divided into formal students and foreigners, playing the role of old men.

Clowns, also known as "little faces", are divided into long-sleeved ugliness, official ugliness, short-sleeved ugliness and female ugliness.

Ugly robe, also known as "Wen Chou", often plays a playboy or a scholar with bad conduct, and sometimes plays a positive role in comedy;

Official ugliness plays a villain or a ridiculous official;

Ugly blouses often play the roles of tea doctor, bartender, servant, servant, official and official.

Ugly women, also known as "Cai Dan", often play funny middle-aged and old women such as matchmakers, witches and pimps.

Lao Dan plays an older female role, also known as "big face", mainly playing treacherous court official, treacherous court official and bully.