Lyrics and Singing of Drum in Northern Hunan

The drum in northern Hunan is a kind of rap art, and the props are drums, and special songs (such as sending a song lang) are added with gongs and cymbals. The basic structure of lyrics is seven sentences, which later developed into cross-sentences. Except Song Gelang's lyrics are in groups of three sentences, other words are in groups of two sentences, four sentences, six sentences and eight sentences, and many groups form a paragraph. Every paragraph requires rhyme at the end. The common rhymes are 1 1: heaven, earth, man, harmony, dragon, tiger, leopard, jackal, yellow, flower and black. It turned out that one person sat in the mourning hall and sang with a drum. After the reform and opening up, he walked into the teahouse and changed to two people standing or singing with musical instruments.

The singing of drum music in northern Hunan is very rich, which is divided into two parts: special reconciliation and storytelling. There are many special minor tunes in Tang Xiao, with strong local characteristics, such as Fengyang Song, Jiangnver Tune and Please God Tune. , especially the Da Song Lang tune, is the most distinctive. The lyrics structure is that two people sing seven sentences and five sentences alternately, and the music sounds like a person's own voice, with a small voice and a long melody, which is unforgettable after listening. There are five boards in the story-telling part, which are the first board, the second board, the third board, the adagio and the number board. Each board has many cavities, such as first-rate flat cavity and hard cavity, second-rate soft cavity and rice cavity, third-rate flowing cavity, haha cavity, adagio's great compassion cavity and big ode cavity, as well as several board buttress cavities, chant cavities and chant cavities.