The first movement: Yellow River boatman song (mixed chorus).
The second movement: Ode to the Yellow River (tenor or baritone solo).
The third movement: "How the Yellow River Water Moves Out of the Sky" (poetry reading with music and three-string accompaniment).
The fourth movement: Huangshui Ballad (two female chorus, originally chorus).
The fifth movement: Riverside duet (male duet and mixed chorus, originally male duet).
The sixth movement: Yellow River Complaints (soprano solo, three female backup singers are often added at the concert according to the revised draft).
The seventh movement: Defending the Yellow River (singing in turn).
The eighth movement: Roar, Yellow River (mixed chorus).
Ode to the Yellow River has a passionate melody, great momentum, strong impact and shocking power, which shows the unruly blood of the Yellow River and the heroic spirit of the Chinese nation.
Li Chaoquan, a contemporary writer, wrote a century-old classic1917-2015: "The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation and a symbol of China spirit. The momentum and strength of the Yellow River is precisely the momentum and strength of this nation. This is a great river, which has a long history, is strong and tenacious, and is vast, just like this country and nation.
The poet's praise of the Yellow River is to praise this nation with infinite strength and passion. This is a hymn to the motherland. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Yellow River symbolized the determination and strength of the whole nation to fight the war to the end, and it was heroic and unstoppable, flowing through vilen in Asia; The final victory must belong to this river and its descendants. "
Zhu Wenhua, a professor at Fudan University, newly edited Selected Works of Modern Literature in China: The Yellow River Cantata used the Yellow River to symbolize the character and destiny of the Chinese nation, and expressed the heroic spirit of the China people who struggled hard to win the national liberation struggle. In fact, this song Ode to the Yellow River conveys this theme most strongly.
This poem is concise in language and strong in emotion. The absorption and digestion of the language art of China's classical poems (especially the "heroic school" of Song Ci), and at the same time drawing lessons from the expression techniques of political lyric poems and radical poems at that time, are the remarkable artistic features of this work. "