When I was older, I listened to many such songs adapted from China's ancient poems. Among them, the full text has been carefully selected, and Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Tou" sung by Teresa Teng is the most famous. Dongpo layman, whose writing style is bold and clear, certainly didn't expect that his yearning for the wonders of the sky, his sigh for the ups and downs of the moon, and his sigh for the joys and sorrows of life when he was in Mizhou, after more than 900 years, he would re-compose music, sing across the country and move more new marriage seekers. Personally, I think that the new compilation and singing of ancient poetry is a classic.
Then, in the TV series "Legend of the Condor Heroes" filmed in Hong Kong, a Cantonese version of Manjianghong appeared. Tan used China's classical singing method to express Yue Fei's patriotic feelings and heroic spirit of resisting enemy revenge and recovering lost territory. At a height, you can't help moving with it.
A similar feeling can be obtained from the opening song of the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is also the opening song of the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. "A pot of muddy wine, happy, ancient and modern many things, heroic, I really regret not being born in the world.
It is becoming more and more common to integrate China's ancient poems into modern pop songs. The whole adaptation will inevitably have its limitations, so it is necessary to make it mathematical and apply it to the key points of the new song in order to "make the finishing point".
So, we met in a duet. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? When we arrived at Jiang Zhiguang and Wei Qishan, there was a saying, "We are all unhappy-at the end of the day, we met. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? " In Sapaxing. The difference is that what Bai Letian wants to express is the bitterness of being demoted, and the hero and heroine in the new song seem to want to use this famous sentence to call for the long-awaited love. Yes, the same sentence, flowing into different ears of different situations and desires, will naturally touch different hearts, since ancient times.
When I saw the name "Taking wine as a song" appearing in Danny Chan's songs, I couldn't help wondering: Does this gentleman share the anguish of Tsao Gong's "fleeting time and short career"? Listen carefully: that clean voice, affectionate and sad tone, is actually telling a lost love story. Although this heart is really painful, I still keep looking for my dream, my eyes are red, and I vaguely feel that such stupidity is just for family. Although the content of the song is far from what the "short song" expresses, the richness of feelings and the sadness of emotional appeal are not necessarily inferior.
This makes me compare the creation of ancient poetry with the lyrics of modern pop songs:
First, the lyrics of modern pop songs and the emotions of ancient poems: "Expressing feelings through songs" is the core of pop songs, and each lyric has a certain emotional tone. On this basis, it is carefully carved to find the catalyst between the lines and stimulate the mood of the listeners. Expressing emotion with words and bringing sound with emotion are the important pursuits of creators in vocal music creation.
China's ancient poems are also the carriers of our ancestors' emotions. The Book of Songs shows people's life in labor, love and other aspects in the form of overlapping chapters and repeated singing, and also reveals the emotional trend of different classes in different living environments. Li Bai, a master of Tang poetry, expressed his uninhibited feelings with fresh and lively language, created a magnificent artistic conception, and also picked up the nickname of "Romantic poet". Du Fu, a great realistic poet, with the emotion of patriotism and love for the people, reminds the sharp social situation truly and profoundly with the history of poetry, reflects the sufferings of the people, and expresses his feelings as much as possible. In addition, Li Qingzhao's graceful and restrained, Liu Yong's charming and Xin Qiji's unrestrained personality have not fully penetrated into his poems? Ah, the creative thinking of ancient poetry "taking sadness as joy and originating from things" is similar to the lyrics creation of popular songs.
Second, the lyrics of modern pop songs and the phonology of ancient poetry:
The creative process of popular songs is usually to have a tune first, and then write lyrics according to the characteristics and ideological content of the tune. The beauty of music comes from its slow, gradual, ascending and descending movements, and the beauty of this movement comes from the harmonious collocation of rhythm and the rhyming and top-grade lyrics that can match the ups and downs of music. Therefore, this requires the lyricist to have a high musical understanding ability and a good literary accomplishment, in order to accurately integrate songs with words and create a good song with both sound and emotion.
And ancient poetry and music are twin sisters. The style, elegance, vulgarity and eulogy of The Book of Songs are eulogies of different classes on different occasions, so ancient poetry can be dominated by them until the Han Dynasty. The title of Yuefu is irrefutable evidence. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shen Yue pioneered metrical poetry with "new style poetry", and since then his poetry creation has paid more attention to metrical poetry. The emergence and development of five-character poems, seven-character quatrains and five-character poems have greatly enriched the connotation of "poetic rhyme". Imagine Li Bai's wonderful sentence, "Clouds are like clothes and flowers." Is it not a masterpiece sung by the emperor with wind music? It can be seen that the pursuit of rhythm in modern pop songs is not passive, and there are traces to follow.
However, it must not be said that the elements of ancient poetry in modern pop songs are the inheritance and development of ancient poetry, which is appropriate and worth promoting. The reason why ancient poetry can be circulated for dozens of generations without losing its charm is inseparable from the background of the times in which the creators lived. The oppression of the slavery dynasty created a large number of obscure and simple poets of the working people at the bottom. In troubled times, there appeared a lean poet who was as ambitious and enterprising as Cao Cao. The prosperous Tang Dynasty witnessed unprecedented prosperity, with the emergence of pastoral poets represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran, frontier poets represented by Cen Can and Wang Zhihuan, romantic poet Li Bai and realistic poet Du Fu, which pushed poetry creation to a peak. The pursuit of the ultimate enjoyment of material and spiritual life in Song society began with the appearance of beautiful women Liu Yong, Qin Guan and graceful Li Qingzhao. With the deterioration of social environment, Su Shi and Xin Qiji, who are patriotic and love the people, appeared again. So many. Throughout the history of poetry creation, there must be heroes in troubled times, but it is difficult to hide the rich ci works in times of peace and prosperity. With the changing social background, natural poetry has become more and more exciting.
After all, pop songs are just "popular", and there is no heavy history in them, let alone all kinds of feelings given by troubled times. They are entertaining at present, but they will eventually be forgotten.
"When are the spring flowers and the autumn moon?" sounds to me today, and it is really suspected of illness.
However, since its musical performance makes people happy physically and mentally, why care about what it quotes and whether it is appropriate?