Ancient western musical instruments interpret oriental graceful words, cross-cultural collision produces brilliant sparks

　　Chinanews.com, Shanghai, December 8th (Reporter Chen Jing) When Song Dynasty poetess Li Qingzhao (Yi'an Jushi) wrote "Like a Dream - Last Night's Rain and Wind Sudden" and "Crimson Lips - Skip the Swing" in large When the pipe is played, the calm and hazy music interprets the lyricist's sense of drunkenness under the flowers and the naive state of a flowery girl. The rhythm of the music collides with the sound quality of ancient Western orchestral instruments to create a wonderful effect.

　　Professor Liu Zhaolu, head of the Orchestral Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a national first-class performer, was the lead performer of the concert.

On the 8th, he said in an interview with reporters that at the concert, Western musical instruments and performance methods were integrated with Chinese classical culture and art, launching a collision across time and space, across nations, regions, and cultures.

Conductor Chen Xieyang believes that performances that combine Chinese and Western styles should be on the world stage, so that Western audiences can better understand Chinese history and Chinese culture.

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　　The original divertimento for bassoon and piano "Yi'an Jushi" is a suite composed of Song lyrics based on Li Qingzhao's life, including 12 pieces.

At the "2022 Bassoon Solo and Ensemble Shanghai Concert - Bassoon Joyful Ode to the New City", the musicians played the first three pieces.

The exotic Western Wind Music will "Last night, the rain was dredging and the wind was sudden, and the sleep was so deep that the residual wine will not disappear." "Do you know, do you know? It should be green, fat, red and thin." Cherishing flowers hurts spring; , but sniffing green plums." The young girl's charming and naive performance is unique.

Liu Zhaolu said: "Although the bassoon is an ancient Western musical instrument, its magnificent and desolate background is also very suitable for expressing Chinese poetry that pays attention to artistic conception."

　　The bassoon, also known as the bassoon, is a woodwind instrument with a history of hundreds of years in the West.

The low register of the woodwind is gloomy and solemn, the mid register is soft and sweet, melodious and full, and the treble is full of drama, which is suitable for expressing serious, dull and melancholy feelings, as well as humorous taste.

Although the proportion of bassoons in symphony orchestras is very small, this small group of instruments is very old, sitting in the entire bass part as early as the Baroque period.

　　Professor Liu Zhaolu told reporters that Daguan was not introduced into China until the 19th century, and it developed rapidly after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Because of its wide range, singing ability, steady bass, and slender treble, the bassoon is the favorite of many musicians such as Tchaikovsky and Beethoven.

They "leave" many of the creative highlights to the bassoon.

The introduction of the "Rite of Spring" created by the composer Stravinsky was completed with the bassoon.

The performer introduced: "Only the timbre of the bassoon can describe the foggy atmosphere in the forest in the early spring morning so realistically. Emotions gushing out." It is reported that the opening notes of "Four Little Swans" are paved with the bassoon, and Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony "Pathetique" also pushed the bassoon to the C position.

The Western music context and the Chinese melody fit together, colliding with a special auditory effect.

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　　In the "2022 Bassoon Solo and Ensemble Shanghai Concert - Bassoon Joyful Ode to the New City", there are not only the adaptation of the northern Shaanxi folk song "Shandandan Flowers Blooming Red and Brilliant", "Fighting the Tiger Up the Mountain" adapted from modern Peking opera, and folk tunes "Counting Flowers"; there is also a Western music adapted from a symphony.

Liu Zhaolu said that beautiful music crosses borders, and the context of Western music fits with Chinese melodies, creating a special auditory effect.

　　However, at present, in China, the bassoon is still a niche musical instrument, and not many people understand and learn it.

In this regard, as a teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Liu Zhaolu said frankly that, compared with the accumulation of foreign countries for hundreds of years, China's related musical instrument companies still have a technological gap in terms of the complexity of the bassoon.

He hopes that Chinese musical instrument companies can further improve production skills and reduce costs.

Liu Zhaolu believes that music is a humanistic thought that cannot be expressed in language.

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　　Conductor Chen Xieyang is the honorary consultant of the "2022 Bassoon Solo and Ensemble Shanghai Concert - Bassoon Joyful Ode to the New City". He believed in an interview on the 8th that such a performance combining Chinese and Western elements should not only tour to more places in China, but also show Its unique charm should be on the world stage, so that Western audiences can better understand Chinese history and Chinese culture.

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