1. Miss you
Leslie Cheung's first novel is not immature. In fact, the quality of Leslie Cheung's published works is relatively uniform as a whole, including this song "I miss you", with clear musical ideas, distinct rhythm and good popularity.
2。 From the beginning, when the wind rises again
These two songs are written for Leslie Cheung to bid farewell to the music world, but comparatively speaking, the former expresses feelings, the latter expresses farewell, the former confides, and the latter is more intense. Because it is emotional and the songs are fluent, the tonality of "Starting from scratch" is a little more complicated. There is a temporary tone change in the sentence "Farewell to the distant place, go far and find freedom and then sprint", and then return to the original tune, adding a lot of color to this song.
In my opinion, the most special thing about When the Wind Comes Back is that it was actually covered by Tong Ange at 1993. As a singer who has written so many beautiful melodies, and a person who almost never sings other people's songs, it is very rare to cover other people's songs, and it is also a song written by a singer who is not a professional creator, Leslie Cheung. Still incredible. But this may prove one thing, "When the Wind Comes Back" is a good song.
Silence is golden, and it is a moth.
Silence is the product of gold and cooperation. The lyricist is Samuel Hui, and the lyrics seem to be based on Leslie Cheung. The composer is Leslie Cheung. The only time he composed music in a traditional style (pentatonic scale) seemed to be a tribute to Samuel Hui who was good at it. Two great men collaborated on a classic song and left a musical story. Silence is what almost everyone likes. Perhaps people in China are more intimate with pentatonic songs.
"Fire Moth" is also a song with Samuel Hui, but its style is Leslie Cheung style, and its melody lines are very detailed, perhaps because of its poor popularity, so it is not as famous as "Silence is Golden".
4. As long as there is will
The theme song "Chasing" of the movie "Golden Branch yeyu 2", Golden Branch yeyu 1, is a well-known award-winning song, which has been covered by many singers. While filming "Golden Branch yeyu 2", Leslie Cheung personally wrote an episode of "Who Are You" for this sequel, which may be the most beautiful melody written by Leslie Cheung. Lin's words added icing on the cake to this song, and he was nominated for best movie song twice.
This song is divided into two parts, the colors are in sharp contrast. The first part lingers in the bass area, like a faint fragrance floating in the summer breeze, and the second part rises suddenly, as bright as fresh and brilliant sunshine after rain. This is a song with two octaves, and the front and back parts run in the low octave and the high octave respectively, giving you a stirring feeling. It is really beautiful, beautiful and natural, beautiful and unforgettable, like a stroke of genius, as if it can make people feel a ray of fragrance from the depths of the soul.
5. Beauty with white hair, forgetting you is like forgetting me.
The first 1 and the second episode of bride with white hair, Beauty and White Hair, were the first time that Leslie Cheung wrote an episode for a movie, but it was a blockbuster and won the Golden Horse Award for best movie song. These two songs are actually sisters. Beauty and White Hair belongs to Zhuo Yihang's song. Forgetting you is like forgetting me. Leslie Cheung designed the same phrase for the endings of these two songs. These two songs are equally slow, coherent and ups and downs. This melody is very suitable for the tragic meaning of strong and persistent love in the play.
6. Three episodes about the movie "Song of Midnight" (slightly modified according to the old text)
Singing in the middle of the night-the form of this song can be called two-stage style. The sentence "close to your heart" is not only the dividing line between the first paragraph and the second paragraph, but also a transitional sentence with a five-degree tone sandhi. Except for the ending sentence, the phrases in the first paragraph and the second paragraph are basically the same, and the latter paragraph runs five degrees higher than the original paragraph. The five-degree difference not only causes the contrast between light and dark in hearing, but also injects power into music, which leads to the mood changing from low to exciting.
The first sentence "only in the middle of the night" is a key sentence, and the sound form of the whole song is basically consistent with it. The melody of the whole song is basically formed by the downward molding of the first sentence. If "only in the middle of the night" is a motive, the whole song is unfolded in the concentration of this motive. It is worth mentioning that at the end, the song was sung twice, emphasized for the second time, and then ended. Not only did it not return to the original tune, but unexpectedly, it did not end steadily on the tonic, but fell on the third note, so there was a feeling that it was still unfinished and lingering. This technique is not uncommon, but it is very appropriate and interesting to use in this song.
From the use of musical language, midnight singing is neat and concise, with coherent breath, smooth mode and one go. In the design of melody, there are both downward tone sandhi and upward tone sandhi, resulting in an image of ups and downs and uneasy mood. When modeling the melody, pay attention to the subtle changes of each sentence, which is not rigid, so the details are beautiful.
Embrace each other affectionately-if I remember correctly, this may be the only time that Leslie Cheung wrote a triple-beat song, describing the sweet moments together with a waltz-like rhythm. He writes well, beautifully and changefully, and the use of rising tone gives this song a western color.
I have lost you all my life-compared with the first two songs, this song is more complex and lyrical. In music structure, the first sentence "I have lost you all my life" is the introduction of the statement, like a sigh. The function of introduction is generally to get to the point or cause the following. In this song, the introduction of the first sentence is the hand that opens the curtain of the drama, and then a sad song begins, starting with "You make me haggard" and turning into the middle part of ups and downs. From this sentence, there was a sudden five-degree tone sandhi, like a cold wind raid, which was worrying, and then changed back to the original tone, but it was still unbearable, so finally there was a four-degree tone sandhi, which ended in excitement.
The styles of these three songs are relatively unified. From the content point of view, not only the song "Singing at Midnight" is an expression of Song Danping's pent-up feelings, but the other two songs are performed, but they also take care of the joys and sorrows of Song Dan's love. From a technical point of view, although the three songs have different styles, they all have some * * * characteristics. For example, they all use tuning, many intervals spanning 5 or 6 degrees, and many semitones. Therefore, they not only have the tonality of western music, but also have the lyrical chant of opera or musical, as well as the rhythm of modern pop music. So these songs are very suitable for the light and shadow feeling of the whole movie.
When talking about the creation of the episode, Leslie Cheung once said: "The whole song uses strings, which is very close to the music played on the stage. There are no Chinese instruments such as guzheng to match the plot and color of the whole play." "Song Danping in the play is a very avant-garde musician. It would be very uncoordinated to create some songs with very China tunes. " "Learning the singing method of foreign operas has no percussion part at all." I think his last work realized this idea very well.
7.little star
Although this episode didn't win an award, and it wasn't as famous as the previous episodes, Leslie Cheung undoubtedly liked this song. In his album Countdown with You, he interprets this song in Cantonese and Mandarin. Xiaoxing expressed a pure and simple feeling with a relatively short melody, slow speech speed and friendly tone, as if it were a low lullaby, and as if it were a revelation of peace of mind under the lonely starry sky. In Leslie Cheung's works, this song is very distinctive.
8. Red
This is a work with a strong personal style. The originality and composition of this song came from Leslie Cheung. Lin wrote lyrics according to the concept of "red". As the title song of the new album 1996, it has also become the climax of the concert spanning 97. In the enthusiastic concert in 2000, Leslie Cheung gave this song a new color to match the overall style of the enthusiastic concert. The meaning of this song is full of metaphors, rich and arbitrary images, meaning between similarity and difference, full of uncertainty, so it also has strong artistic plasticity. Leslie Cheung creatively expressed it on the stage in a musical way, and still kept the hazy feeling beauty of this song.
"Red" can be divided into two paragraphs and eight phrases from the musical structure. Structurally, the first paragraph includes four phrases, the first sentence is the opening sentence, the second sentence is the repetition and strengthening of the first sentence, the third sentence is the variation sentence, and the fourth sentence is the closing sentence. The second paragraph includes the last four phrases. The relationship between the four phrases is consistent with the last paragraph, and the sound structure is basically the same as the first paragraph, but the melody of this paragraph runs in different positions as a whole, and the melody line and details have changed. From the overall structure, it is very similar to the rhythm of Tang poetry. Poetry and music are originally two-in-one art forms, which have the same artistic rules. The use of this structure in Red is neat and concise.
Red begins with a strong beat of bars, but at a moderate pace. The arrangement gives this song a modern color with a strong, stable but undercurrent rhythm and a psychedelic taste of electronic sound, without losing its poetic and hazy artistic conception.
9. loneliness is harmful and hot
These are two "fast songs". Except these two songs, most of the songs written by Leslie Cheung are lyrical. He once said in an interview, "Many people say that Leslie Cheung can't write fast songs. No, how can he be looked down upon like this? So why did he write some fast songs? . . "Aggressive, he wrote this lonely and harmful song to fill the gap, and later wrote a big hit. In fact, the so-called fast songs are not much different in writing. The main difference is probably that some paragraphs are densely arranged, short in breath, lonely and harmful in writing, and not monotonous in structure. Songs are advanced in a progressive way, with a degree of relaxation. In the second half of the song with a high fever, I inserted a sentence "Try to make peace". Although this technique is not unheard of, it is surprising that he did it. Leslie Cheung is really not simple. As for the heat, the routine is similar to loneliness, but there is no back section.
10. Keep company.
Neither of these songs is very conspicuous. They lie quietly in the photo album and don't appear on other occasions. Although their companions were reinterpreted after being filled with Cantonese lyrics in the album Those Years, they still seem to be weak. "I'm not finished" is a very good sketch. In fact, I just wrote some subtle changes in the two main phrases, and the ending deliberately did not fall on the main melody. It's really unfinished. This song is short, but exquisite and not wordy. In fact, many feelings are just moments. The short music that captures the instant feeling is the unfinished feeling. Syncopation is used in music, which makes the rhythm very rhythmic. The arrangement takes the acoustic guitar as the leading role, with a brisk chorus, and the whole song has a fresh and moving folk style.
How can I put it? This song is not bad, but I can't say it's very good. It's like a sentence made completely according to grammar, but it's not an interesting sentence. This is my opinion of this song. Its melody is a bit far-fetched and not beautiful. Of course, this may just be my feeling. If there is any song in Leslie Cheung that is written below the standard, I will choose this one.
1 1. So far and so close (cash best alternative music award)
This is a song inspired by Jimmy's cartoon "From Left to Right", and it is also the most interesting song in "Crossing the Border" co-produced by Leslie Cheung and Huang Yaoming. The whole song has a strong sense of drama and picture. Two people are talking, and I am singing. The relationship seems to be from near to far, from far to near, and the unpredictable fate is so erratic. Leslie Cheung once again showed his genius. How does he play, that is, narrate? It is not easy to do this in such a short song. The first part of the melody is very expressive, just like laying out and creating an atmosphere. In the second part, there is a sudden change in rhythm. There are many fine chromatic scales in the melody, and the mood is gradually tense, such as unfolding and explaining the plot. The third part is a high-pitched hymn. The melody of this song, as Huang Yaoming said, is exotic. This exoticism is due to the adoption of the harmony minor style that China people are not used to. The second part is a semitone progressive, and the third part is a high-pitched part. The melody is long and rising, which is a bit like the Mediterranean sunshine style of Italian opera. The most exciting thing is that these elements are so perfectly unified in one song, which is refreshing.
Leslie Cheung also contributed a series of monologues in this song. In Huang Yaoming's words, "Of course, many dramatic effects are provided by my brother, and those monologues are like the finishing touch to make the songs come alive." But who would have thought it was improvisation? Huang Yaoming said: "This song is actually an interesting thing in the process of recording monologues. When recording, my brother just recorded a lot of words casually, but I just intuitively selected some feelings that I thought were right and tried to put them into the song. I didn't expect them to be tailor-made. "
12. Songs for music friends and the younger generation
Leslie Cheung once wrote six songs for his friends and the younger generation. When writing songs for others, we often have to take care of each other's characteristics, such as range and suitable style. This may be different from writing songs for yourself, and Leslie Cheung himself is a singer who can widely interpret various styles. It's a pity that I haven't heard the song "I will miss you forever" written for Xu Zhian. Let's talk about the other five songs.
"If You Know My Difficulties" is a song written for Vivian Chow, with a delicate melody and a little sadness. Out of love, Huang Yaoming reported this in 2002. He said: "It was really smooth when recording this song. Seriously, when you feel particularly good about a song, it will be particularly smooth. And I have a special feeling for the song "If You Know My Difficulties". Basically, I can record and sing as soon as I enter the recording studio. "
"Under the Sun Umbrella" was written by 1989 to Huang Yi, a young singer of Xinyibao Record Company at that time. It is a song with jumping rhythm and happy mood. We can see the author's intention. Leslie Cheung used short tone sandhi in the song, which added variety to the song, while the ending sound fell on the leading tone, leaving a aftertaste.
The surrender book is written in blues rhythm and has a pure bitterness. Leslie Cheung's only blues work, praise it, he is ignorant!
One Night was written for Mak Kitman. Leslie Cheung wrote a slightly sad lyric for this sweet and elegant female singer in a minor style, but it was not too bad.
How about "love yourself"? It is a representative play of Edison Chen, with two versions in Cantonese and Chinese. In 2000, Leslie Cheung was infatuated with hip-hop and R&; B's new human writes songs, which emphasize the vividness of rhythm in addition to the pleasant melody, and especially writes an English rap in the song, hehe, my brother is crazy!
13.* * * Create truth, goodness and beauty, Noah's Ark.
* * * Creating Truth, Goodness and Beauty is written in 1988, which is the theme song of RTHK's "Embarking on the Road of Citizenship". "Noah's Ark" is the song of the cash award ceremony, and both of them can be classified as functional songs. Generally speaking, such songs are of poor artistry. Songs like * * * creating truth, goodness and beauty are didactic and can be considered as "main melody" works far-fetched. In fact, they are not very good, easy to be false and easy to be false. Young Leslie Cheung did his best at that time. Comparatively speaking, I prefer Noah's Ark, the melody is tough and exciting.
14. Love in the glass, red butterfly, dare to love, I know hello.
It was not until his death that people heard these songs. How could he write these songs when he was tortured by depression in the last few years, when he recovered his health and hope during his illness? I can't imagine. If the creator must take back his excellent creation in this way, at least we still have his last music as a souvenir, which carries his last life.
"Love in a Glass" is a heartbreaking song, with many downward phrases such as sighs, but its musical ideas are clear, its three-stage structure is smooth and rigorous, and "there is no sin in saying goodbye in time". On the tone of "Shi", he prominently used this semitone in the middle of the homonym on both sides as a transitional tone. This idiom means that he is the beauty of 1993. So later, many works were used, or they were habitually treated when singing. This is a usage of Leslie Cheung, which sounds helpless in this song. The melody of The Red Butterfly has a delicate, soft and light feeling, but it is also sad. This song is written in a minor style and has a gloomy and sad mood.
In fact, these four songs, especially the last two, are ugly and not bad enough, because you can feel the singer's obvious weakness, and you already know his ending. ...
15. "I"
Regarding this song, lyricist Lin said, "All the lyrics (and Leslie) are actually written by myself, because there is no limit, so I can play well." The only exception is one of the songs (a draft written by Lin Xian according to his own meaning). He said that this is my song, not a song to express my feelings. Let me polish it with the dialogue in the movie. " The exception mentioned by Lin is "I". What inspired Leslie Cheung to write this song? Which movie did he ask Lin to refer to? I think it's the following song called "I am me" and the movie called "La Cage aux Folles".
I am who I am.
I am who I am.
I was specially created by myself.
So take a look.
Give me the hook.
Or cheer
This is my world, and I want to be a little proud
My world, it is not a place where I have to hide.
Life is not worth a penny.
Until I can say that I am who I am
......
This song is an excerpt from La Cage aux Folles, the first gay musical on Broadway, which premiered on 1983. This musical was born out of a French gay film of the same name, and was shot in 1978. When translated into Chinese, it means fake phoenix, fake phoenix. When writing this song, Lin referred to the lyrics of "I am who I am", such as "Everyone is the glory of the creator" and so on. There are two versions of the lyrics, which Lin himself likes, but he prefers the Mandarin version.
Not everyone bases his belief on his persistent self, but it is the source of Leslie Cheung's will and courage in life and the structural logic of his special life. In this song, he adopted a two-stage musical form. Before the first half, he wrote an introduction and sang the theme "I am who I am, and I will always love this kind of me". After the intermission, he explained the first half of the song with a relatively calm and gentle melody and recitative, and then raised the whole melody with transitional sentences, entering the second half of the song, which is the climax. He integrated his passion into the broad and long melody design.
"I" is a nearly perfect work, with clear, fluent and concise music language, poetic and philosophical lyrics, and the arrangement conforms to the artistic conception of the song. The combination of piano and orchestra is both solemn and sacred, which sets off the grand feeling that songs express the overall concept of life. The singer expressed it with a voice condensed with profound life experience, which made this song reach the realm of unity of man and song. The song "I" is also a work with a distinctive composition label of Leslie Cheung. It has always been clear and fluent in musical ideas, elegant and concise in melody design, consistent in dead-end techniques and semitone transition.
"I" has a unique and special value in all Leslie Cheung's music works. This is his life declaration and heartfelt words after decades of ups and downs. In his enthusiastic concert, Leslie Cheung interpreted this song with firm and serious eyes, like a saint who preached with art. Although Leslie Cheung studied in a Buddhist middle school and was exposed to western religions, he claimed that he had no religious beliefs and his beliefs existed. With this song, the weather in Leslie Cheung has definitely sublimated.
Listening to Leslie Cheung sing "I" seems to relive his loyal life. He is a great and perfect individualist with self-esteem, self-improvement, self-love and self-realization. He left the world the song "I" and the eternal evidence of his participation and change.