Eight-board music is widely used in China traditional music, and the genres involved are also very diverse. Its application in China traditional music is mainly manifested in the following three aspects:
1. The application of eight boards in instrumental music.
That is, all kinds of music that are still called eight boards in various places, such as eight boards, eight boards, old eight boards, big eight boards, eight scores and old six boards in rap, opera and folk instrumental music. In Quyi music, "Eight Banners" are often used at the beginning of the music as a prelude, which is called "Eight Bantou" or "Bantouqu". For example, Bantou in Henan Daqu, Xiaoqu in Hubei and Yin Qing in Sichuan are all used to attract business or calm down noisy scenes before the opening of music, so as to facilitate the start of music later. Instrumental qupai is the accompaniment of songs, dances and operas. In China, it is more widely used in instrumental music. In addition to a large number of traditional pipa and guzheng, it also exists in many kinds of music all over the country, such as Shandong Qinqu, Hubei Laohekou Sixian, Eight Banel in Shaanxi Eight Sets, Inner Mongolia Ma Touqin Music, Hu Si's solo Eight Tones (also known as Eight Tones) and Chaozhou Opera Shi Xian Music.
Second, use eight boards as the original music.
At present, it is found that the acoustic music of the earlier "Ba Ban" music is a "Listen carefully" compiled by Yan Zide, a musician of Tianjin Sanhetang in the 60 years of Qing Qianlong, and the lyrics "Bald Monk" embedded between "Shu Cha" and "Cha Wei" are sung by Ba Ban. But only the lyrics have no soundtrack. Later, Mr. Qian Renkang tried to fill the lyrics of "Bald Monk" with "eight-board" music. In addition, fisherman's music, which sings the eight-tone tune, is still popular in Hebei. Eight-board music was also used in school songs in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. For example, Song of the Motherland, also known as the Great National Anthem, appeared before 1905. Because it was a patriotic song, it was widely sung in emerging schools at that time.
The polyphonic application of three or eight boards and I-scale.
The tune of "Eight Plates" is used in the music of Sixteen Plates compiled by Rong Zhai, and the application of "Eight Plates" in this music has special significance. Among the fifteen variations, the repetition of fifteen eight-plates combined with a lot of changes in the working scale constitutes a larger ensemble with polyphonic significance. The application of polyphony can be seen from the following examples.