1, Overture and the March of the Lion King: From the overture of two pianos, a grand and solemn March appeared, indicating the appearance of the lion; The king of beasts, with majestic steps, leads the list of beasts.
2. Rooster and hen: The hen is represented by clarinet, and the rooster is expressed by the highest piano.
3. Wild Donkey: Playing like a flying piano, it describes Tibetan wild donkeys running and chasing on the vast grassland in Tibet.
4. Turtle: This song is a lively and fast can dance melody in the overture of composer offenbach's "Orflo in Hell"; In this song, it is played very slowly, which is in sharp contrast with the last paragraph.
5. Elephant: After the waltz rhythm of the piano, the double bass plays the melody of the fairy dance in Berlioz's The Evil of Faust and the scherzo in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. These brisk music are used by Saint Sang to describe the clumsy steps and funny dance steps of elephants.
6. Kangaroo: Kangaroo kicks the ground and jumps forward with long and healthy hind legs. Kangaroo's surprisingly long and big tail can also help it jump and balance. A decorative phrase played alternately by Saint Sang on two pianos, describing the brisk movements of kangaroos.
7. Aquarium: The piano plays a soft arpeggio, just like the fluctuation of clear water in a glass aquarium. Flutes and strings play a serene melody, describing the fish swimming in the water.
8. Long-eared animals: The first and second violins play the sounds of long-eared animals alternately.
9. Cuckoo in the forest: The piano's * * * represents a quiet forest, imitating Du Fu's clarinet and playing two single notes and one goo repeatedly! Goo!
10, big birdcage: the vibrato of stringed instruments represents the sound of birds flapping their wings and flying, and the flute plays the main role in showing the scene of birds jumping; The piano imitates the birdsong of birds in birdcages.
1 1. pianist: this is really an incredible "animal". It is pitiful that Hanon's etudes are repeatedly played in the music, satirizing piano students' constant practice of monotonous scales.
12, fossil: xylophone and orchestral music play the melody of skeleton dance in Sansheng's Dance of the Skull.
13, Swan: Accompanied by the arpeggio of the piano, it represents the clear lake, and then the cello plays a beautiful and charming melody, describing the swan floating gracefully and peacefully.
14, finale: This is a happy reunion scene where all animals finally get together. Finally, it was brought together into a joyful atmosphere and ended in a cheerful * * *.
The thirteenth "Swan". This song is the most popular in this suite. It is often played alone and even becomes the representative work of the author Saint-Sang. This song is the only elegant and gentle ditty in the whole suite, which is in sharp contrast with other songs. It is generally believed that Swan is the most exquisite and famous music in the whole suite. The arpeggio accompaniment of the harp in the song shows the ripples on the clear lake, and the beautiful and charming melody of the cello describes the noble and elegant posture of the swan and the scene when it floats peacefully and freely. The whole song begins with the prelude of the harp rippling, and then the cello sings an elegant melody with a smooth 6/4 beat, rising and falling from time to time, and the artistic conception is very beautiful. The rhythm and sound form of harp accompaniment are the same as the prelude, which is in harmony with the melody of cello. The phrase at the end is also beautiful, and the whole song gradually disappears in the weakest performance.
Each movement introduces the carnival of animals, that is, the fantasia in the zoo. Written in 1886, it is a very unique work! One of the unique features is the arrangement of musical instruments: it consists of two pianos and chamber music of nine musical instruments (violin 2, viola, cello, oboe, flute, clarinet and xylophone). The second uniqueness is that the suite consists of as many as fourteen movements, and the third uniqueness is that the author uses a lot of simple acoustic imitation techniques, which are usually considered to be the most inadequate, but full of beauty and loveliness. The fourth uniqueness is also the most unique point: the works not only follow his previous music themes, but also quote many melodies of other composers, and exaggerate, distort and caricature them. It's hard to say whether this is a "good joke", a childish "prank" or a sharp irony.
In fact, this work was written by the author for his own pleasure. Because some other composers' songs are quoted in it, most of them are not well-intentioned changes, and often contain sarcasm. Therefore, before the author's death, Saint-Sang was forbidden to play or publish this work, except for/kloc-0, who secretly performed for a friend in Paris in February, 887. After the death of Saint-Sang, people saw that his will lifted all kinds of restrictions on this work. Since then, Animal Carnival has often appeared as an orchestral suite on the concert stage in various countries. In Animal Carnival, the author vividly describes all kinds of funny and interesting situations of animals in the busy festival ranks.
The whole suite consists of thirteen title ditties and finales:
Introduction of the lion and the royal March.
Compile: two pianos and five strings
The trill of two pianos from weak to strong is a powerful forerunner of BM. We haven't seen the lion yet, but we can already hear its roar stronger and stronger in the string group, which is the introduction of the whole song. Then, the music turned faster, and two pianos imitated the ensemble of bugles. As a signal of the appearance of princes and nobles, we are all familiar with this kind of ensemble, and BM actually pays attention to such ostentation and extravagance! Then, the lion king appeared in the mighty March. The patrol of The Lion King is represented by the repetition of the theme, and its guard of honor (imitating the ensemble of bugles) often follows, while The Lion King also shows its prestige from time to time with a roar (piano and bass stringed instruments in a semitone).
Hen and rooster
Compilation: clarinet, piano, violin, viola.
I didn't expect the violin to imitate the sound of hens laying eggs so vividly. This motivation comes from a famous piano piece by Mora. Another sound form of piano and violin makes us hear the cock crow.
Wild donkey (agile animal)
Compile: double piano
When the author changed the original title of "Agile Animals" into a subtitle, he specially mentioned the wild donkeys on the grasslands of Central Asia, and played them as fast as two pianos, depicting the wildness of wild donkeys when they galloped. Interestingly, the rhythm and intensity of these phrases have hardly changed from beginning to end. The satirical Saint-Sang here is clearly mocking those piano players with dazzling skills-if their musical quality can be as clever as the skill of playing fingers, they will become musicians. Shengsang is a real pianist and organist. Therefore, he is particularly disgusted with the rigid and mechanical training in piano performance. It is no accident that he regarded it as a satire twice in the fourteen works in this group.
Turtle (tortoise)
Compilation: the first piano and five strings
It is the tune of this popular "Cancan Dance" in offenbach's famous comedy opera "Orflo in Hell". The difference is that he slowed down the original fanatical Allegro countless times. Bass stringed instruments show that turtles crawl humorously and slowly from far and near, look around from time to time, and occasionally eat one or two pieces of grass on the roadside, which is unhurried and naive. This melody was also spoofed in the movie "The Lion Roar". At that time, Louis Koo sang "Come on, I'm an apple, a fruit, a fruit ..." and used this melody, while Cecilia Cheung was "high-fiving". It seems that our new and new humanity's spoof hobby is still learned from Grandpa Sansan.
Elephant (elephant)
Compilation: second piano, double bass
As the main musical instrument, the double bass plays a brisk waltz with a deep voice, which matches the rhythm of dance music. People can imagine the elephant twisting its huge body at will, which is both funny and vivid. The fairy's light and elegant dance is taken from Berlioz's drama legend "The Fall of Faust". If Berlioz sees Saint Sang ruining his works in this way, he will feel deeply.
Kangaroo (kangaroo)
Compile: double piano
The two pianos alternately play jumping patterns, depicting the light and agile figure of kangaroos, chasing each other, playing and carefree, in sharp contrast with the image of elephants. The light jumping voiceprint composed of alternating pauses and pauses vividly imitates the amazing jumping ability of kangaroos, and the pause voiceprint interspersed among them seems to describe the moment when kangaroos pause from time to time.
Aquarium (aquarium)
Compilation: flute, double piano and strings (minus double bass)
The two pianos are playing reverse arpeggios with staggered beats, showing the rippling water, the sun shining directly on the clear bottom, and all kinds of fish are swimming. Under this constant rhythm, the flute and the violin played the same pure melody. The piano repeated the theme melody in the form of a half-beat, and played it many times at the end, just like fish scales flashing in the sun. The whole song is as beautiful as if it were there.
"People with long ears"
Compilation: the first violin and the second violin
The violin is played in a special way, and the grotesque sound shows a monster with a donkey's head screaming at the top of his lungs in Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (which people see every day). This is Sansheng's satire on the artistic authority who is afraid of rap.
Cuckoo in the center of the forest
Compilation: clarinet, double piano
The piano gently shows the quiet forest with * *, and the cuckoo's cry is lifelike under the imitation of clarinet. A harmonious and quiet nature forms a strong contrast and psychological feeling with the screaming in the previous paragraph.
birdhouse
Arranging: flute, two pianos and strings.
The vibrato played by stringed instruments presents a picture of birds flapping their wings and flying high, during which the birds keep jumping and singing.
pianist
Compile: two pianos and five strings
Cherny's piano simple scale practice is played here repeatedly. As we know, pianists and animals put in zoos for people to watch are completely irrelevant; We also know that those students who can only play Cherny endlessly may not have a future. In order to illustrate this point, Saint-Sang simply asked the piano to play this simple etude of Cherny repeatedly, and limited the band to carefully provide the modulated * * *. It seems that Saint Sang hates the poor performance of novices, and he even put them in the zoo here.
Fossil (fossil)
Compilation: clarinet, xylophone, double piano, strings.
This time, Shengsang not only laughed at other people's rigid and outdated works, but also laughed at himself. The well-known bone sound in Sang Sang's own Dance of the Skull is now reproduced in the dry but bright timbre of the xylophone. Intertwined with these ghost themes are two ancient French folk songs and a phrase (clarinet) from Lin Xiawei's aria in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Are these tunes petrified so quickly?
swan
Compilation: two pianos, cello
This is the most popular and popular piece of music in the whole suite (Jay Chou played a variation on this theme in the graduation concert of Unspeakable Secrets); Some people may not know that San Sang wrote Animal Carnival or The Origin of Swan, but they have long been intoxicated by the charming melody of swan-of course, this situation is very common in classical music. When all animals with different personalities and shapes are released, noble and sacred swans swim slowly, and the clear lake sets off a white and beautiful "queen". Who doesn't respect beauty and sacredness? Extremely beautiful melody flows gently on the cello, and its main theme has little modification, but such understatement is more suitable for the swan itself and more devoted than gorgeous rhetoric. The ups and downs of the two pianos can of course be understood as ripples imitating water waves, just as the background. It gently sets off the narrative of the theme, making the whole tune clear and integrated.
final
Arranging: five pieces for piccolo, clarinet, xylophone, double piano and strings.
After beauty and holiness arrived, the real carnival began. Under the guidance of the overture, a neat and rhythmic celebration theme appeared immediately. In the process of repeating this dance melody, almost all the characters in the zoo can be clearly heard coming out to make the final curtain call: the wild donkey with fast legs came out first, followed by the hen, and then the kangaroo. As for turtles and elephants, they may not be able to do so quickly, so they can only stay aside and make the last call. Full of vitality, full of * * *, full of equality and fraternity, no species boundaries, no distinction between strength and weakness, no distinction between nobility and inferiority, no time and space interval ... only joy!