Senior one (3) Ban Su
After a semester of school-based course "National Defense and Military Science and Technology", from a person who knows nothing about military affairs, I gradually began to understand that an important part of the world is also an inseparable part of our country: national defense and war.
What I used to get only in news broadcasts and documentaries was presented to my eyes systematically for the first time. Some things that I didn't understand before suddenly became clear. The army gave me a pair of new eyes and let me see the world from a new angle. I hope to look at what I am familiar with and love from a military perspective. How interesting their combination is.
Music has always been an indispensable part of war and an indelible part of soldiers' service life. Even the instruments used to play music in the war have gained great symbolic significance-an army drum symbolizes glory and tradition, and its importance is second only to the color of military uniforms.
/kloc-in the 0/8th century, joining the army was described as "following the drum". Even today, those ancient symbols are still talked about by people. For example, Dave R. Palmer's strategic research paper on the Vietnam War is entitled The Call of the Horn.
The armies of ancient Greece and Rome used brass instruments and percussion instruments-including the precursors of modern cornet and tuba-to transmit information during marching, whether on the battlefield or in the camp. The Greek army will also hire some musicians to accompany the poetry reading in the army. The main purpose of reading these poems and songs about ancient heroes is to remind soldiers to be as brave as the ancients. After the fall of western Rome, the tradition of war music was inherited and carried forward by Byzantine Empire.
/kloc-at the end of 0/7, when the war gave way to a large-scale fire attack, the troops were deployed from the early barbaric and fierce charge. At this point, war has become a stylized and highly formalized thing.
/kloc-at the beginning of the 0/8th century, soldiers were asked to obey any orders given by their superiors unconditionally like robots. Needless to say, the noise in the war, coupled with the sound of guns and smoke, is no longer a reliable way to command the army verbally on the battlefield. If an order is not heard by soldiers-or worse, if it is heard but not understood, it is quite dangerous. The signal conveyed by music is easier to be heard through the gunfire, and the sound and drums of trumpets are very clear and clear, which is the key reason why they are used as instructions.
The west combines music and war perfectly. In China, there are too many such examples, such as China's famous pipa "House of Flying Daggers".
As early as the end of16th century, Wang Youding of Ming Dynasty recorded the vivid scene of Tang Ying, a famous pipa player, playing Chu and Han in Four Zhao Tang Ji. The article writes: Chu Han is a song. The two armies dueled, moving heaven and earth, and the tile house flew down. Xu and examine it, there are golden sounds, drums, swords, crossbows, chariots and horses. Over time, those who have grievances are difficult to understand, and they are Chu Ci; Those who are sad and strong are Wang Xiang's elegy and generous voice, don't say goodbye; Trapped in daze, there is the sound of chasing horses; To Wujiang, there is the throat of the king; "I rode my horse to fight for Wang Sheng, which made the listener excited at first, sad at first, and finally unable to cry. It's so touching.
In the 1950s, the equipment was backward during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and the bugle was chosen. American soldiers were exhausted by China's elusive horn and the echoes in the dark mountains. Such psychological influence contributed to the final victory.
In the battlefield in the mid-20th century, the music used for commanding and directing operations became insignificant because of the appearance and development of modern communication technology. However, military music is still the most effective tool to boost morale, cheer up the spirit, and adjust the atmosphere of the army and even the whole people. Until now, singing red songs and playing red yeast is still an important way to inherit our national spirit.
Music and War Composition (2)
My military and music teachers appeared in front of me one day, so my current high school teachers have a so-called N-side relationship with me.
Based on these findings, I feel that my music and military teachers have given me a long-lost excitement. While listening to Schindler's List, we read the history of the war. Thinking while reading is terrible. Just like Yu Hua's Going Out at Eighteen, it is all imaginable. There is music behind the war, and the music tells the war behind it. This strange power has a long history, but it has not been combined in the form of movies. This is why war and music exist independently. Great musicians can infiltrate pictures into music, just like Richard Clayderman's Starlight. Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, clayderman, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Beethoven made me fall in love with classical music. At the same time, the war is approaching my heart, and I need a sense of intense generate in the war to arouse my excitement and fluctuating emotions.
At the same time, I kept looking at Yu Hua's works. I have been listening to music and watching Yu Hua's works. I compared Su Tong and Wang Meng with him, but these short stories didn't feel like "going out at eighteen", and I found that they didn't value those strange colors. Just like piano music and violin are always two different roads. I think, what is the status of music and war in reality? Wars have broken out in non-Asian regions, and singers in China have also sung so-called love. War and music, like China's literature, have no classics. So I don't advocate war, but what war brings has disappeared in this era. Are the so-called brothers really like brothers? Truth is like a gap. Whoever crosses it is a swan.
I never dared to look at things purely, so my third year was very impure. At this time, Yu Hua and Kafka told me the infinite possibilities. There is hope behind suffering, and the opposite of death is a happy life. "The asphalt road is undulating, and the road seems to follow the waves. I am walking on this mountain road. I am like a boat. "
Borges reminded me: "Time always branches and leads to different futures."