How many types of Tibetan folk music are there? What are the contents of "Lu" and "He"? What are their musical characteristics?

Tibetan folk songs are divided into Lu folk songs and harmony folk songs, and "Lu" and "Harmony" are Lu folk songs and harmony folk songs respectively.

I. Contents:

1. Lu folk songs:

"Luti" folk songs are divided into "Lalu"-folk songs and "Zhuolu"-pastoral songs. Literati's poems are the same as "Lu-style" folk songs, and the Tibetan scripture "Cuolu" is similar to "Lu-style" folk songs.

2. Harmonious folk songs:

Harmonious Youth (carols are specially sung at ceremonies and ceremonies); Music Harmony (Song of Labor); Fruit Harmony (Circle Dance); Harmony (Arrow Song); Hot Harmony (a song sung in a bell and drum); Harmony of Youcang (wine song) and so on.

Second, the characteristics:

1. Lu folk songs:

Generally speaking, every Lu folk song has several paragraphs, and the typical structure is three paragraphs. Each paragraph ranges from two or three sentences to a dozen, with two to five sentences being the most common. Each syllable is generally equal, and sentences with seven or eight syllables are the most common. There are opposites in meaning, words and rhythm pause between paragraphs of each song and between relative sentences in paragraphs.

2. Harmonious folk songs:

Generally, there are four sentences and one song, six syllables in each sentence, a pause in every two syllables, and three meals in one sentence. No rhyme, each with six or eight sentences, six syllables and three meals per sentence. Some are metaphors, and some are straightforward. There are also the first two metaphors, the latter two refer to reality, or the former is the latter.

Extended data

Tibetan folk songs are rich in emotion, wide in subject matter, rich in content and diverse in forms. There are folk songs, playing and singing, and rai (folk songs) with flowers and regional characteristics. Lu folk songs are mainly popular in the former Xikang and northern Tibet Plateau. Four or eight sentences are the most common, and each song can reach more than 20 sentences. Among them, generally speaking, every syllable is equal and the tune is slow.

This kind of metrical poem is recorded in the ancient Tibetan historical materials discovered in Dunhuang, and it became very popular in the 9th century. In Tibetan literature, this kind of meter is widely valued and used.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tibetan Folk Songs