Dance of Youth is a short and pithy Xinjiang song. 1939, King Xige of China collected this Xinjiang folk song while sorting out western music, and later adapted it into a Chinese song, which was included in Lift Your Cover-King Xige and His Songs and Baizan China 2.
1939, Wang made great changes to the lyrics when collecting this Xinjiang folk song. It turns out that the word "other yo yo, other yo yo" has ten syllables, and "other yo yo" means "bird" in Uighur, which translates as "bird yo, bird yo", but it has only six syllables. If you directly fill in the music score according to the translated Chinese, it will not meet the requirements of style and lose the flavor of folk songs.
Song appreciation:
The adapted songs have the characteristics of "the fish bites the tail", and the first eight words of three of the six lyrics all have the same melody: "The sun will set tomorrow morning", "The flowers will wither next year" and "So will my chicks"; The melody of the first sentence is exactly the same as that of the fourth sentence, and the second sentence is the same except for the front part, only the end part is different. Because the first sentence, the second sentence and the fourth sentence are repetitive, the importance of the third sentence is highlighted: "Beautiful birds fly without a trace", and the audience can immediately feel that this sentence is the key point from the melody.
The arrangement of this piece of music is similar to that of China's classical poems. In metrical poems, the rhyme of quatrains has two fixed formats, one is that both sentences in the poem must rhyme, and the other is that the last word of the first, second and fourth sentences must rhyme.
In other words, the first sentence can rhyme or not, but the third sentence can't rhyme anyway. This is the experience of the ancients after studying Chinese subtlety. Only the language written according to this rule can be fluent and catchy. Otherwise, it always feels wrong.