A Bing (1893- 1950) is a folk musician. His real name is Hua, and he is from Wuxi, Jiangsu. When he was young, he suffered from eye disease and blindness, and his life was bumpy. After he became blind, he often played the pipa on his back and the hand-held huqin in the streets of Wuxi and Huishan, so he was called "blind A Bing". The representative works include Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pine, Big Waves and Sand Washing, Cold Spring Breeze, Dragon Boat and so on.
biography
1893 Aug 17 A Bing was born in Yihe Mountain House next to Leizun Temple in Wuxi. His father Hua Qinghe (no. He is a Taoist in the Leizun Hall of Wuxi Palace. His mother Qin was born in a peasant family. She became a widow soon after her marriage, and her marriage with Huaqing River was reviled by her people. She died of depression a year after she was born in A Bing. When A Bing was born, he was sent by his father to his hometown in Xiaosifang Lane, Dongting Town, Wuxi County, and was raised by his family. After he was eight years old, he was taken back to Taoist Temple, where he was given the scientific name of Hua and posthumous title, and sent to a private school to study.
Hua is proficient in all kinds of musical instruments and Taoist music. A Bing showed a rare talent for music when he was young. At the age of 65,438+00, his father taught him to beat stones to resist the cold and practice various rhythms (and later became a famous local drummer). /kloc-at the age of 0/2, A Bing began to learn to play the flute. His father often asked him to blow at the tuyere and hang an iron ring at the end of the flute to strengthen his wrist. Later, he simply replaced the iron ring with a weight. When A Bing studied erhu, he worked harder. His strings were dyed red with blood and his fingers were pulled out of thick cocoons. The outer strings of A Bing's erhu are much thicker than ordinary ones, which is inseparable from his perennial practice. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, A Bing officially participated in Taoist music performance. He is handsome and has a good voice. He is called "Little Shi Tian".
19 14, Hua died and became the Taoist priest in charge of Leizun Temple, taking turns to take charge of the incense income of Leizun Temple with his cousin Hua Boyang. Later, due to poor management, A Bing became addicted to opium and gradually fell into poverty. At the age of 34, he went blind one after another, and was forced by life to wander the streets and make a living by performing arts. 1939, A Bing married Dong Caidi, a rural widow in Jiangyin.
1950 In the summer, Professor Yang and Professor Cao Anhe from the Central Conservatory of Music made a special trip to Wuxi to play a recording. By this time, A Bing had completely given up music for three years. After three days' practice, he recorded it twice, leaving three erhu works, namely, Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pine, Cold Spring Breeze, Big Waves Wasting the Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun. However, A Bing's favorite "plum blossom three lanes" was not recorded because there were not enough recording wires. Later, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Big Waves Wasting Sand" won the 20th Century Chinese Classical Music Award.
1950 In September, the Chinese Department of the Central Conservatory of Music planned to hire A Bing as a teacher, but at that time he was seriously ill and could not apply. He died on February 4, 2008 19565438 and was buried in the "Yihe Mountain House" cemetery at the foot of the western suburbs of Wuxi. His wife Dong Caidi died on March 27th, 195 1.
A Bing's achievements in music have gone far beyond the barriers of family inheritance. He has learned from others and absorbed many skills, and reflected all his feelings about the painful life through music. His music works are permeated with the essence of traditional music, revealing a healthy and deep breath from the bottom of the people, sincere, gripping and full of strong artistic appeal.
Anecdotal anecdote
People call A Bing "three are not poor": the people are not poor (not afraid of power); Poor people are not poor (not free to eat); Poor people are not poor (honest).
In Wuxi, a landlord raped a girl of 13 years old at home. When A Bing knew about it, he immediately made up lyrics to praise it, exposing the evil deeds of the landlord, arousing public anger and scaring the landlord to flee for months without going home.
On one occasion, the Kuomintang warlord Tang please hold a birthday party for his thirteen aunts. A Bing flatly refused and was beaten, but A Bing didn't give in, made up the lyrics and played the erhu to curse.
During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese occupied Wuxi, and a man named Zhang Shijun became a traitor. When A Bing found out, he made up words to scold him and was beaten again. Later, the traitor was killed by the Japanese. A Bing applauded and sang a song "The Traitor's End" along the street, which was applauded by Wuxi people.
musical creation
Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province is known as "the second spring in the world". Author Hua named this piece of music "Two Springs Reflect on the Moon", which not only brought people into the artistic conception of quiet night, clear spring and Leng Yue, but also made people seem to meet that person-an upright and tenacious blind artist-when listening to the complete music, telling people about his bumpy life.
Followed by a brief introduction, the melody goes from the top sound to the horn sound, then ends with the horn sound, and finally ends with the gong sound. This is a microwave-shaped melody line, just like the author sitting by the spring meditating on the past (fragment 1). The second phrase is only two bars and appears six times in the whole song. It starts with the high octave at the end of the first phrase. Swinging up and down around the Gong Yin broke the silence in front and began to be high, revealing the author's infinite feelings (fragment 2). When entering the third sentence, the melody flows in the high-pitched area, and new rhythm factors appear. The melody is soft and firm, and the mood is more exciting. The theme gradually changed from calm and deep at the beginning to high spirits, which profoundly revealed the author's inner life feelings and tenacious and proud will to survive. The frequent use of his notes in performance makes the music feel a little sad, which is the emotional expression of a blind artist who has suffered from human bitterness and pain.
The theme of the whole song has been changed five times. With the presentation, extension and development of the music, the feelings expressed are more fully expressed. Its variation technique mainly expresses the development and circuitous progress of music through the expansion and contraction of sentence width and the rise and fall of melody activity range. Many of its variations are not to express different musical feelings, but to deepen the theme, so the musical image created by music is relatively simple and concentrated. The speed of the whole song has not changed much, but the strength has changed greatly, from pp to ff. Whenever music longer than quarter notes is played, the intensity of the bow changes and the music fluctuates, which is exciting.
Yue Ying, Er Quan:/GB/yspd/jzxsh/music/yinyue.wma.
Song Ting:/musichall/071018-04.mp3
Cold spring breeze: /syr/syr 10.mp3