As early as the Qing Dynasty, The Cloud Chasing the Moon was a famous Cantonese song. Its style is light and unique, describing the ordinary life of ordinary citizens and showing the typical Guangdong folk music style. When Li Hongzhang was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he copied this song and performed it in ouchi.
1932, when Ren Guang was the director of the program department of EMI record company, together with Nie Er, he began to create a batch of national orchestral music for EMI band. Cloud Chasing the Moon is one of the excellent orchestral works, which was written on 1935. 1960 Peng Xiuwen rearranged the orchestration according to the band of the Central Broadcasting National Orchestra.
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Music appreciation
The melody of Cloud Chasing the Moon is written in China's pentatonic scale, which is unpretentious, smooth and lyrical. In the first paragraph, the flute, flute, pipa, erhu and Hu Zhong played together, and the strings were harmonious and leisurely. , dulcimer, Ruan set aside a light lining cavity, the rhythm is relaxed, so that the music reveals quiet vitality in peace.
The knocking of mixed wooden fish and hanging cymbals set off the openness and vastness of the night and added mystery. The second part, there is no obvious contrast color, and the melody is obviously an extension of the first part's lyricism, without conflict, only harmony and harmony.
Music thought, like the listener's thought at this time, develops freely and naturally. The most dynamic part should be the third part. The echoing dialogue between musical instruments is like the frolicking between clouds and the moon, with vivid modality and full of interest.