Due to the diversity and complexity of the constituent factors, vocal music art has formed a process from complex to simple on the whole, and each constituent factor is essential to the whole. Therefore, vocal music art is neither music plus literature nor literature plus music, but a small comprehensive art with independent meaning and expression, overall structure and framework, its own laws and principles, and independent character. Although it has the same means of expression as pure music (that is, acoustics), there are significant differences in the form of expression and the composition of beauty, which embodies the inherent law and personality characteristics of vocal music art.
From the creative process, any artistic creation has a subjective process, and the creative process of vocal music is particularly special. It is a multi-cognitive activity of emotional expression from objective to subjective (composer). This is a remarkable feature in the process of vocal music art creation. The former subjective factor (lyrics) is a subjective objective reality formed on the basis of the feeling of objective reality, while the latter is actually a subjective objective reality. Therefore, the subjective consciousness of the latter is limited to some extent, and it must be reflected in accordance with the law of music creation while respecting the subjective choice of the former, thus forming a multi-link comprehensive emotional flow and re-creation process.
Fundamentally speaking, vocal music works are a performance process that combines dual subjective factors, while instrumental music creation is the embodiment of a single subjective factor. Their * * * is an artistic reflection stimulated by objective reality information, but the results are different. Although there is consistency in emotional expression, the emotional mechanism of vocal music art is based on a clear object and is a concrete emotional reflection. Although this kind of emotion is confined to a certain image, the emotional effect is far from unique to this image. From the cultural background of a certain region, it represents the overall spirit and aesthetic pursuit of a certain region or nation, and has the directness of emotional expression. However, the emotional expression of instrumental music works is vague and uncertain. It needs to arouse the appearance of memory in the appreciator's mind through the subjective feeling or experience of the appreciator and the vague emotional stimulation formed by the actual movement process of music notation (materialization means) transformed by music media (composer's subjective feeling). In the music industry, it is necessary to give necessary care to Meng Jiangnv. Only by understanding the musical text can we lose our roots.
Meng Jiangnv, a folk song in vocal music, has a kind of emotional nudity that coincides with this. In the emotional inheritance and continuation of two thousand years, the endless "dissatisfied wife complex" is mixed with the author's or singer's personal care and feelings for the story itself, and it is subjectivized without hesitation. The folk song "Meng Jiangnv" uses four beats: 1=G4/4, 3/4 and 2/4, which makes the melody varied and just right. He beats 56 times a minute, and the melody changes from stretching, slow, euphemistic, sad to flowing, slow, desolate to allegro, intense and slow again, and the melody is soft.
The folk song Meng Jiangnv is divided into four paragraphs. The first paragraph is basically an original ecological folk song tune, describing the scene of Meng Jiangnv's husband and wife separation. "Husband and wife get together, Meng Jiangnv's husband builds the Great Wall." His tune is a little slow, but his feelings are euphemistic and sad. He envies the reunion of husband and wife, but he is lonely in the boudoir. I can't help but feel bitter in my heart, which is euphemistically and faintly revealed in the narrative and melody of Meng Jiangnv's Building the Great Wall. The Foreign Music Reference translated by Mr. Li Yaolun once included a passage by the famous Japanese conductor Mr. Seiji Ozawa: "The music score is marked by sadness, but how sad is it?" What kind of sadness is it? Inner, gloomy, or just sad composers don't explain, so they have to judge for themselves. "For the cognition of things in works, an accomplished artist always starts from carefully studying the works, carefully pondering the works, and repeatedly scrutinizing the author's original feelings, so as to achieve the cognition, perfection and reappearance of the works and show the characters, inner world and plot. In this case, to feel Meng Jiangnv's resentment complex, we can only say that we should seek a contact point that will eventually form a heterogeneous isomorphism with Meng Jiangnv's feelings.
Singing, that is, vocal music, is the process of turning notes and characters into sounds, and it is also the process of artistic re-creation, which is often called "second creation". The second paragraph of the folk song Meng Jiangnu is the processing and development of the original folk song, which strongly expresses Meng Jiangnu's desire for her husband. "Meng Jiangnv looks at the Great Wall with misty eyes. When can she see Qi Geliang again?" Its melody flows slowly, and the lyrics are extremely complaining and sad, and a bleak feeling of missing arises spontaneously. Of course, this deeper sadness complex is more important because of the singer's profound skill as a "second-time creator", who sings with people with her voice, which is what the famous German soprano Hames said, "If someone asks me what the meaning of singing art is? I won't explain it from the sound skill. The power I want to say is the ability to touch the audience. " If this is the case, it is self-evident that Meng Jiangnu's dissatisfaction with his wife is floating in the world of sound, which is touching.
Plekhanov said, "Art not only shows people's feelings, but also shows people's thoughts, but it is not abstract, but vivid. This is the most important feature of art. Of course, modern vocal music is much better. It combines the expression law of language with the expression law of sound, and combines the fluency of melody and the regularity of rhythm to carry out its technical creation (vocal method) and artistic creation (singing method). In this way, words and sounds are unified, emotions are naturally integrated into them, and the means of expression are more diverse, not only rich in changes, but also the most important thing is nature. Because it has not changed or been destroyed, the basic ways and forms of language pronunciation (speaking) have not changed. Blurred the boundary between speaking and singing, just like the art of film performance, blurred the boundary between life and performance, everything is so real and natural. In this way, the contradiction between speaking and singing, sound and emotion is solved, so that words, sound and emotion are perfectly unified, and the expression of emotion (content) does not pay attention to the reproduction of sound beauty, thus achieving the purpose of fully expressing emotion.
In the third paragraph of Meng Jiangnv's "I make clothes for my loved ones", the thread is acacia, the needle is affection, and the needle and thread are dense and dense ... "The tune changes, and the feelings are sincere and ready to go. The singer's emotion is based on skill, and it is a painful memory to reach an agreement with Meng Jiangnv's heart. Through tonality conversion, the tone changes greatly. It describes Meng Jiangnv dressing her husband in cotton-padded clothes and expecting to meet her husband. Meng Jiangnv's feelings and her resentment complex have been strongly promoted, so she staged a touching and sad journey to find a husband.
In the fourth paragraph of the tune, where the folk song "Meng Jiangnv" was sung, the tune was tight and intense, like the sound of Melissa Zhou. Its sadness and resentment do its best. Of course, this kind of performance should be truly expressed. As far as music is concerned, vocal music is an art that is good at expressing and inspiring. Without the accurate, basic and vivid expression of emotion, it is impossible to complete the task of vocal art creation with beautiful voice and clear articulation, and it is also impossible to complete the artistic processing skills of pronunciation and intonation modeling. The famous Russian male singer Xia Yaping (1875- 1938) said: "For a real singer, it is not enough to master singing skills, but also to use music to express various musical plots, express various moods of characters, and send out the tones needed to express certain emotions." In the final analysis, the resentment complex in Meng Jiangnv's vocal works is the relationship between "sound" and "emotion". China's traditional singing theory was summarized from the Analects of Confucius. "Emotion moves in the middle, but the shape is scattered in the sound", even the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi said, "Musicians come from sound, and singers come from emotion." Meng Jiangnv searched for her husband thousands of miles away, complaining with blood and tears. "I cried eight hundred miles down the Great Wall and saw my bones full." The mood is extremely sad, and the melody changes slightly. Meng Jiangnv's expectation was extremely frustrated by the dramatic technique of pulling tightly and singing slowly, and her husband was extremely sad and lost. Her emotions were pushed to the highest level, and her resentment complex was lifted, which made people deeply feel her sadness and tears. All her feelings are justified.
The ultimate inquiry of the dissatisfied wife complex
The ultimate exploration of Meng Jiangnu's resentment complex is a process from the surface of the song to the original natural state and then to the inner feelings. In vocal music, the situation of different songs contains visual phenomena such as people, places and scenery at different times. When analyzing music works, we should try our best to restore the original natural state of the song (i.e. scene, time, place, characters, etc.). ) and try to find the inner feelings of the hero in the song. Because only when cognition creates all his imagination on the screen of his inner vision, at the same time arouses the corresponding emotions and arouses the emotions in line with the song, can we create a distinctive character image with thoughts, feelings and personality.
Vocal music is an art of scene reappearance to a great extent, which naturally lays the foundation for the lyric function of tunes. The emotion of ci is the forerunner of grievances, and grievances are the deepening and development of ci. The joys and sorrows of words guide the direction of music, and make the uncertainty of music get a clear emotional tone, thus mobilizing and exerting the unique lyric function of music and showing the artistic charm of tunes. There are many ways to express melody in singing, such as suppression, promotion, pause, frustration, height, strength, connection, interruption, collection and release. In fact, the ultimate question of Meng Jiangnu's dissatisfied wife complex:
The first thing to understand is that when a composer conceives a work, he carefully thinks about every phrase and every note, and they become an organism and play a role. Music is a performing art and the extreme of Meng Jiangnu's resentment complex. As an important participant, a singer must have the ability to analyze and understand the content of the work and experience the feelings of the work, and express the content, thoughts and feelings of the work by singing. A singer's expressive force is a combination of many kinds of wisdom and abilities. Therefore, the singer should be good at feeling and experiencing the emotion of the song, understand its connotation, and show it with singing skills and techniques in order to understand Meng Jiangnv at that time.
Secondly, in order to pursue this emotion, the singer needs to practice solfeggio with melody before singing, and understand the ups and downs of melody, the change of rhythm, the configuration of harmony and accompaniment (including the atmosphere and image created by song accompaniment). In the process of solfeggio, we should have a comprehensive understanding of every structure (including prelude, interlude and epilogue) and every hint (including expression, speed and strength) of the score, and have an objective and complete image of the song, just like having an outline at the beginning of painting. Then infect the audience through their own body, gestures, eyes, expressions and emotional songs, clearly explain the complex and changeable emotions to the audience, let the audience listen to the charm, even study music, improve their appreciation ability, enrich their literary accomplishment, and then integrate the song spectrum, so that the lyrics and melodies can be sublimated into the singer's musical thoughts and language, and be truly and vividly expressed in the songs.
Finally, voice and language are important, but people can't be moved without true feelings. It is not art if you can't impress people. Artists must go deep into life, carefully observe its complex social phenomena (including complex interpersonal relationships and contradictory people's inner world), establish correct ideas and construct vivid realistic phenomena, and interact and promote each other in their minds, so that gradually clear characters can gain soul and passion while gaining flesh and blood, pursue real and sensible characters, and stimulate the emotions of viewers with their actions.
The ultimate exploration of Meng Jiangnv's resentment complex can be understood as conveying the rich connotation of music and human empathy, analyzing and mastering Meng Jiangnv's artistic image, and finally exerting the infection of artistic image to gain a beautiful emotional experience, so as to subtly understand the three flavors and achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment and beautifying the soul.
Of course, an insensitive person, a person who is indifferent to "beauty", a person who is not easily excited and moved, will never understand the mystery and realize the root of Meng Jiangnv's dissatisfaction with his wife complex. As the saying goes, "Without emotion, there is no poetry, without emotion, there is no music, without emotion, there is no art."