Lyrics analysis:
The lyrics of the song adopt Ai Qing's lyric poem: "If I were a bird, I would also sing with a hoarse throat: this land hit by the storm ..." The poem begins with "If I were a bird", which is not a simple image, but an emotional virtual. The poet's sincere love for the motherland is expressed through the wishes of birds, and the euphemistic lyric technique combines the poet's deep feelings and sincere feelings. Then the poet arranged a set of images to express the content of his singing. Strong passion permeates the poet's mind, which makes these images full of vivid and rich connotations: "the land" has been attacked by a storm, "the river" is sad and angry, "the wind" is irritating, and "dawn" is gentle. Connecting with the era of poet's writing, we can realize that the poet's writing shows a tragic era of broken mountains and rivers and the destruction of the country. It is commendable that the poet did not despair because of this. He is still full of hope in the dark, so the dawn is "gentle". "-then I died and even my feathers rotted in the ground." The poem skillfully uses the natural passive ending of birds to express the poet's active pursuit, which more truly shows the poet's dedication. Finally, he directly expressed his feelings of worrying about his country and patriotism, which not only clarified the theme, but also echoed the logic of the first half sentence.
2. Analysis of innovative technologies
The musical structure of this song is a musical form in F major with 4/4 beats. The music structure is as follows:
Single-part music form
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Prelude A B tail
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Material: a+b a 1+c+a2
Part: 4 4 5 5 9 3 3
Tonality: F F F F F F f
Prelude (1? -4), the tonality is in F major, and it consists of three dissonant chords and a first-class 46 chord in F major (see example of music score 1), and the prelude appears in dissonance. The harmony texture of progressive column chords paves the way for the introduction of singing parts.
Section A (5- 14) consists of two phrases, which are non-square (4+5). The melody of the first phrase rises circuitously, showing the excitement of rising. In contrast, the second sentence is circuitous and has deep feelings. The accompaniment adopts the texture of the introduction, which not only enhances the appeal, but also creates better coherence for the music. In order to express the profound and exciting complex emotions embodied in the lyrics and read the lyrics sentence by sentence, this passage has very distinctive characteristics in music writing. Very obvious in tonality. The tonality of the first phrase is in F major, but the second phrase is transferred to the minor of the same name through homophonic tone, which highlights the color contrast with the tonic. At the same time, the change of accompaniment texture makes this contrast more obvious. The accompaniment texture of the first sentence is the octave harmony in the bass. The second sentence is a completely decomposed chord progression (see spectral example 2). In addition, the composer enhances the coherence between the two phrases by repeating the core tone and the main rhythm pattern in the second phrase. In terms of termination type, this passage adopts a special form of transposition termination, that is, the first phrase ends on the main chord and the second phrase ends on the subordinate chord, which well cooperates with the sentence reading of the lyrics and creates conditions for frequent tonal opposition.
Section B also starts from F major, and the non-square structure (5+9+3) borrows the core tone and rhythm of the first section, which is the development of Section A.. The first sentence basically adopts octave, and the tone is relatively stable. The description of the lyrics "this restless and irritating wind ┅┅" is octave decomposition; The second sentence turns to the minor of the same name, the timbre becomes dim, and the accompaniment sound is mainly broken chords, which reflects lyricism, corresponding to the lyrics "Then I die and even my feathers rot in the ground"; The third sentence is the ending sentence of the whole song. The tonality was changed from F minor to F major, which once again sublimated the land I love. In tone modulation, homophonic two tones are used as homophonic modulation.
In the finale, the four bars at the end are basically the same as the beginning of the whole song (see music score 1 and 3). The significance of this is that at the end of the music, it is switched from F minor to F major, and the time is slightly shorter, so that the prelude material appears repeatedly as the finale of the whole song, which makes the music have the meaning of reproduction. These fully show the composer's skillful composition techniques.
Creative characteristics: first, in the choice of lyrics, it is based on China's modern lyric poetry, which has a high artistic level and aesthetic value; Secondly, in melody writing, Su Xia can only grasp the profound connotation of poetry and achieve the perfect combination of poetic style characteristics and melody style characteristics; Thirdly, in terms of formal structure, Su Xia arranged formal structure according to the content of poetry, adopting single form and two-part form; Finally, skilled harmony skills. Composers often add dissonance to harmony chords and semitones and inflections to melodies. This method of enhancing dissonance is also common in the creation of China composers in the late 20th century, such as Luo Zhongrong and Ding Shande. However, they often use twelve-tone techniques or modern techniques to achieve disharmony. Su Xia didn't use this method, but on the basis of traditional harmony, he added dissonance to enhance dissonance.