Accompanying is essential: What musical instrument is used in Suzhou Pingtan?

Pingtan originated in Suzhou, a beautiful water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and is popular in the beautiful Fulao Yangtze River Delta region. In the Ming Dynasty more than 400 years ago, there were already book-telling activities in Suzhou. Do you know what his musical instrument is? Learn from me what instruments they can play.

The performance area of Suzhou Tanci is not from Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the south, but from Changzhou in the west, Changshu in the north and Songjiang in Shanghai in the east. Small area, many artists and different audience needs force artists to explore innovative books, new tunes and new performance styles. During the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods, Suzhou was one of the "last four outstanding figures" in the development history of Pingtan. Among these four artists, three are Tanci artists, who made Suzhou Tanci establish their own artistic system: the prose part of calligraphy is expressed by "saying".

Describing and describing the behavior, thoughts and activity environment of the characters in the story is called "table". The character language is called "white". Seven-character metrical poems in calligraphy are called "singing" and "playing", which are played and sung by Sanxian and Pipa, accompanied by each other. Inserting comedy factors into the story is called "Jue". Actors imitate the expressions, language, intonation and some actions of the characters in the story, which is called "acting" or "learning" and also called "doing".

The performance of Suzhou Tanci usually focuses on speaking with singing in the middle. When singing, it is often accompanied by sanxian or pipa, and when speaking, it can also be used as props to clap your hands and gather gas. The qupai used in singing is a banqiang storytelling song, the so-called "book tune". Because many musical genres have been formed in the circulation, "book tune" is also called "tone". Most of the early performances were three-string rap by a male artist, and later there were two-person "double-file" and three-person "third-file" performances.

Sanxian: Also known as Heizi, it is a traditional plucked instrument in China, and other ethnic minorities also have instruments similar to Sanxian. The handle is very long, the speaker is square, with covers on both sides and three strings, which are played in your arms. The timbre is rough and bold. Can be solo, ensemble or accompaniment, widely used in national instrumental music, opera music and rap music. Modern Sanxian is improved on the basis of traditional Sanxian. The Big Three Immortals are divided into 60 types and 80 types, which were successfully developed in 1960 and 1980 respectively, hence the name.

The structure of Sanxian is relatively simple, which is divided into three parts: head, handle and drum, and consists of head, chord shaft, mountain pass, handle, drum stand, leather membrane, piano bridge and strings. Most of them are shovel-shaped, which is the decorative part of Sanxian. Generally, it is embedded with bone flowers or carvings, with a chord groove in the middle, a chord hole at the edge of the groove, and three chord shafts on each side of the piano head. The piano rod is a semi-circular cylinder with a smooth surface and a three-string fingerboard. The upper end is embedded with a mountain pass, and the lower end is square and inserted into the piano drum.

Qin drum, also known as drum or drum head, is a three-string resonance box, which is made of python skin on both sides of a slightly oval drum frame. Qin Ma put it in the center of python skin. The strings are made of silk or steel wire, which are arranged in sequence from the treble string: outer string, middle string and inner string; The outer string is a sub-string, the middle string is two strings, and the inner string is an old string. One end of the three strings is tied to the diamond-shaped wooden shell under the piano drum, and the other end is wound around the three string shafts respectively.

Lute, known as "the king of plucked instruments" and "the first plucked instrument", is a plucked instrument. Wooden, the speaker is half pear-shaped with four strings on it. Originally made of silk thread, now it is made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. The neck and panel have "phase" and "product" for determining phonemes. It is an important national musical instrument for solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble. Pipa is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, with a history of more than two thousand years.

The earliest musical instrument "Pipa" in China appeared around the Qin Dynasty. The word "Jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two jade collide and make a pleasant knocking sound", which means that it is a musical instrument that makes a sound by plucking the strings. "Bi" refers to "a string with equal columns". "Ba" means that this instrument is always attached to the player, unlike the harp, which does not touch the human body. Before the Tang Dynasty, the pipa was also a general term for all plucked instruments of the Pipa family in Chinese. Chinese pipa spread to other parts of East Asia and developed into Japanese pipa, Korean pipa and Vietnamese pipa.

Conclusion The bibliography of Suzhou Tanci is very rich, with 65 well-documented traditional novels, 72 newly edited historical novels/kloc-0, and some new novels with modern themes. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), a large number of playing books were recorded, recorded and videotaped, and Zhou Yuquan's Jade Dragonfly and Selected Poems of the Medium-length Talks were edited and published.