Music connotation
The music connotation of songs should first establish the relationship between melody and rhythm. There is a saying in traditional composition textbooks: "Melody is the life of a song". But in a sense, this sentence denies the extremely important position of rhythm in songs.
Therefore, compared with melody, rhythm is more concrete, intuitive and primitive. It goes without saying that in ancient times, today's young people are keen on "disco dancing" or "dancing machine", and I'm afraid the rhythm is far more than the melody. Rhythm is especially important for beginners to write songs. Only by mastering the framework concept of rhythm can we master the small and complete music genre of songs.
In contrast, melody creation is more abstract and more difficult to teach and express. Beautiful melody can only be understood, but not expressed, just as many composers sometimes talk about melody and move out of "inspiration". Mccartney only used the words "a year written in a dream" when discussing the song "Yesterday".
Therefore, songs are different from music. A composer who lacks a sense of melody can write excellent instrumental music, but not songs. Instrumental music pays attention to form and structure, and it develops exquisitely and orderly in time span by using some "motivation" music themes.
The song pays attention to the beauty of melody and the instantaneous effect of sound, which attracts the audience's full attention in just a few minutes. Therefore, grasping the beauty and ability of melody is the most important quality of a song composer.
Besides the relationship between melody and rhythm, the music connotation of songs also includes other aspects of music writing, such as the principles of presentation, development and reproduction in music writing, the influence of the golden section law in climax layout, the classic form of ABA in structural paragraphs, the principle of regression of musical forms and so on. The musical connotation of songs also reflects the composer's aesthetic tendency towards art.
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