Endless acacia blood and tears cast red beans,
I can't finish the spring flowers,
I can't sleep well. After the storm and dusk,
I can't forget the new troubles and the old ones.
Jade grain can't swallow, it's all in my throat.
I can't see the thinness in the diamond mirror.
If you can't open your eyebrows, it's even more leaking.
Ah! Like a castle peak that can't be covered,
Running water and green water are long.
Appreciation of red bean ci:
Excerpted from the 28th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, it is the lyrics of a ditty sung by Jia Baoyu. "Red beans" are acacia beans. In the poem Red Bean written by Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty, there is a phrase "Take it home for my sake, as a symbol of our love", which is often used to refer to acacia, here refers to blood and tears. The first sentence "I can't stop loving you and throwing red beans" points out the love theme of the whole song.
Let's use a series of parallelism sentences to show the young people in love who are distressed by love. The sentence "I can't finish driving" and "I can't sleep well" is written in the name of Spring and Autumn Scenery, which is more and more painful every year; Five sentences, such as "I can't forget", describe in detail that love has caused new hatred and old hatred. I can't eat any more, and my mirror looks very thin. The conclusion also uses faint green hills and long green waters to describe the inseparable love.
This song has a multi-sentence structure. The whole song runs through and develops with the rhythm of the first phrase as the basic rhythm. This rhythm of the number plate goes on with the surrounding tones, expressing implicit feelings like chanting. The last two phrases of the song are the same as the first two phrases, and the echo before and after enhances the unity of the whole song, further embodying the love of acacia artistically.
The whole song can be said to be structured in a lyrical, euphemistic, regular, neat, peaceful and sad atmosphere. Therefore, what "Red Bean Ci" says and complains is by no means poetic, but contains the complaints of pain and sadness. Therefore, the performance of singing must be clear about the author, and then the idea can be understood, and then its artistic conception can be expressed.
The first eight sentences of this poem all contain a word "no", and I still can't sleep after dusk because of endless blood and tears and endless flowers and willows. There is no end to sorrow and lovesickness, and I can't swallow any expensive food. Beautiful faces have long since disappeared, brows are always locked, and time is hard to find. The last two sentences are progressive, telling the feelings of lovesickness, pain and trouble.
Extended data
"Red Bean Ci" is a pentatonic feather mode with minor color, and its musical structure is a one-part musical form with reproducibility. This song embodies the creative characteristics of Liu Xuean's artistic songs, that is, the combination of China's traditional mode and western composition techniques.
The melody of the whole song is simple, simple and moving, coupled with the mode of China's classical charm and the speed of Andante, it expresses China's implicit traditional love view with a chanting sentence. The last two phrases of the song echo the first two phrases, which enhances the unity of the whole song. The emotional context of the whole song is sad and implicit, but it is not only love and hate, but also contains the composer's pain and sadness in the face of national crisis.
"Red Bean Ci" is an artistic song about love. Generally speaking, it is mainly melancholy. Therefore, the intensity of the whole song should be well controlled, not too strong, in line with the aesthetic standards of art songs, and don't express emotional conflicts like singing arias, otherwise it will be difficult to express long-term "acacia". Like Professor Zhou Xiaoyan, the original singer, the volume is handled very well, which is the best model for us to learn to sing this song.
At the same time, we can also listen to Mr. Huang Zi's artistic songs, which is of great help to sing this work well. In addition, singers who learn Bel Canto can also try to figure out the sound of this song from Italian classical art songs. Such as: songs "My Dear", "Emily", "Moving Moon" and so on.
The speed of the song is marked andante. Don't change the speed of the song at will, and make corresponding adjustments if necessary, but the overall speed of the work should have a basic tone. Slowing down will make the whole song seem long and slow, and the original meaning of lovesickness will become a sad voice. If the speed is too fast, it will lose the characteristics of classical poetry singing.
Art songs pay attention to the consistency of sound and the uniformity of breath, so when singing Red Bean Poetry, we should pay attention to the continuous cutting off of sound, the light from the air outlet and the connection with nature. The first two sentences of the song, "I can't help throwing red beans in tears, and the flowers are full of paintings in spring", are implicit sadness and melancholy. Although there are words of blood and tears, we should pay attention to the characteristics of artistic songs and don't overemphasize the drama of blood and tears.
Express your inner feelings with flowing breath and sad emotions. The voice is mainly soft, but the initials should be clear, and the smooth breath can be ensured with slight friction, so that the flowing sound can be obtained.
There are many pauses in the song, so we should fully ensure its duration and not extend it at will. "If you don't sleep well, you won't forget to frown, and it is even more leaking." A pause after a few words. If you extend it at will, you can't accurately express the inner depression and boredom of children who are deeply tortured by love. "Show eyebrow doesn't open, make unknown more leakage. I can't open my eyebrows, and it's even more leaking. "
The repetition of these two sentences can be adjusted emotionally. The melody of these two sentences is three degrees plus four degrees, and the sound goes from low to high. Therefore, the second sentence should be more emotionally developed and strong than the previous sentence, which can lead to the sigh of "ah". A sigh of "Ah" is also like the feeling of Lei Yu. Although it was thunder, there was no thunder roaring, and no thunder resounded through the sky.
This is melancholy thunder, humiliating thunder. Just like the people of China at that time only complained in their hearts, and they didn't have the determination to resist completely. Just like Baoyu and Daiyu, born in a feudal family, they were doomed to be pushed around and unable to fight. I can only make a melancholy voice, and I have no idea of eloping. Therefore, the treble of the word "ah" should be sung weakly and not hysterical.
Under the control of "ah", the last sentence is "green hills are faint" and "green waters are long." In this way, the works echoed from beginning to end, from "endless acacia blood and tears, endless red beans, endless spring willow flowers, full of paintings, to endless green water can not cover the faint green hills." This echo from beginning to end coincides with Lei Yu's central idea.
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