Appreciation of Pipa Music in Moonlit Night on the Spring River

Pipa Moonlit Night on a Spring River is an elegant and beautiful lyric music. It is like a landscape painting, showing the charming scenery of nature on a quiet night in spring. The moon rises in Dongshan, boats ripple on the river and flowers sway gently on the west bank. Originally called sunset flute and drum. The title of this song was first seen in Yao Xie's later work "Textual Research on Modern Music" in Qing Dynasty, and it was listed as the middle song of "Pipa Music of Jiangnan School". The music score was first seen in 1875 when Jushilin copied the pipa score and Wu Yiqing's manuscripts. In the 1920s, Shanghai New Music Society adapted it into a folk music ensemble, and the poetic content of this piece was rooted in it, which was named "Moonlit Night on a Spring River".

This piece of music has a beautiful artistic conception and a compact musical structure. Although its theme melody changes a lot and new factors emerge one after another, each paragraph ends with the same phrase, which sounds very harmonious. In folk music, this technique is called "changing the head and ending", which can reveal the artistic conception of music from different angles and deepen the content of music performance.

The whole song is generally divided into 10 segments. People followed the tradition of China's classical title music, adding a subtitle to each paragraph. These titles are: bells and drums in Jianglou, Dongshan on the moon, the wind returning to Qushui, flowers and shadows cascading, deep water and clouds, fishermen singing late, ringing back to shore, singing far away, alas, returning to the boat and ending up.

"Moonlit Night on a Spring River" has simple and elegant melody, relatively stable rhythm, far-reaching artistic conception, implicit expression and strong artistic appeal. The musical conception of "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" is very ingenious. With the constant change and development of music theme, the artistic conception depicted in music also changes gradually, sometimes quiet and sometimes warm, realizing the endless changes of natural scenery.

The ninth paragraph is the climax of the whole song, and the melody is from slow to fast, from weak to strong, which is exciting. This piece of music depicts the joy of rowing the boat home, resounding through the river and reaching the peak of emotion. Then the music stops in vain, returns to the calm and gentle mood, and then turns to the end.

The music at the end is so ethereal and long, like a canoe disappearing on the river in the distance, and the night sky by the river is quiet and serene, which makes people indulge in this poetic and charming artistic conception.