Chinese entertainment for engineering students

Izumi Sakai lived in the Imperial Capital for a month before returning to his childhood. When he returned, "The Matrix" had already been finished. When the girl left, she looked at Wang Xu with a strange look, which made Wang Fei, who was also saying goodbye, keep pinching Wang Xu.

Wang Xu was not surprised. It would be better after a while after separation. Who is still young and doesn't have a crush on him?

Sakai Quanshui is two years older than Wang Fei, but she is only 27 years old. According to the standards of later generations, she is still a girl. According to the standards of the current imperial capital, she is a standard older unmarried young woman.

I don’t know if she was born in the 1985s or 1990s. From the beginning, the age of this girl seemed to move back a little bit with time. Before Wang Xu came back in his previous life, he had already heard the expression of the thirty-five-year-old girl. They were I haven't grown up yet.

A thirty-five-year-old man is called a greasy uncle by many little girls, but women of the same age are still girls. Who can you ask to reason with?

I have to send off Sakai Quan Shui, and then I have to send Wang Fei away. She has been very busy recently. From time to time, there will be parties and activities that need to be attended. The academic studies with Professor Jin are really about to become nominal. Professor Jin Complained about this a lot.

Wang Xu had to help apologize. Of course, Professor Jin came to complain about this, which was to show his closeness. Since building a high-end recording studio for the Conservatory of Music, Professor Jin rarely comes here. Most of the recordings are done in-house. That's it.

I heard that it is a re-recording of a classic series, and it has already reached the fourth album. Wang Xu has a collection here. He is currently recording a series of military songs. This alone is worth several CDs, and he is very busy.

Wang Xu has always been very supportive of this matter. He used to provide recordings at cost price, and later built a large recording studio for the Conservatory of Music at cost price. His support for them can be said to be in place.

So, where is Wang Fei's singing level? Whether she goes or not, it's really not that important. But Professor Jin didn't want to break off the relationship with Wang Xu, so he would come to the small building from time to time. The reason was naturally to find Wang Fei and keep in touch with her.

Now Wang Xu is getting busier and busier, and his status is rising day by day. There is really no one who can come here from time to time like him.

Although there may not necessarily be something going on, he has found a lot of resources for his students, but I haven't seen him planning anything for himself. No, Wang Xu was recently asked if he could do something to help people in folk music. They were a little bit Can't open the pot.

Wang Xu was puzzled as soon as he heard this. Aren't you the director of the vocal music department? Why are you still in charge of folk music?

Professor Jin chuckled and nodded mysteriously at Wang Xu. Wang Xu understood, okay, good news came from the delivery room, this is a promotion.

But if you say that the downturn in folk music is really self-inflicted, folk music and folk music can still be called folk music if you are not down-to-earth.

It's not flattering to leave the vast private market open, but we have to go to the concert hall. How many ordinary people will go there, who do you think is the blame?

I have to say that in folk music, there has never been a downturn in folk music. Weddings and funerals are not allowed in rural areas to have a music troupe to play, play and sing, but who really engages in folk music thinks highly of them.

The accompaniment of troupes from all over the country is folk music, which has never been passed down. Life has been getting better recently, with more weddings and richer funerals, and their business has also improved a lot.

Such as Errenzhuan in the northeast and folk songs in Lingxi, they have always been very lively, especially in recent years.

Among Chinese people, who would go to a concert hall to listen to folk music?

Like various folk music reforms, the folk music was modified along the lines of symphony, without the bass, and the bass flute or something like that, Wang Xu felt that it was really a bit nondescript.

Look at the folk music solo at the end, but the accompaniment behind it is a symphony orchestra, which has nothing to do with folk music.

The timbre is the timbre. Why do you have to understand it so clearly? This is folk music. This is a Western division. It is a bit strange. Symphony orchestras are not instruments from one place. Most of them are improved and manufactured after the industrial society. s things.

When they were manufactured, they were designed to serve the entire orchestra, and after many years of screening, what was left was the style of the current symphony orchestra.

There were also our gongs and cymbals in there. It was possible that they were thrown away, but those gongs and cymbals were actually remodeled, just for the symphony orchestra itself.

But now you have to imitate other people's style of putting together a folk band. If there is no bass, just make a bass flute, bass ruan, bass sheng and the like. If there is no rhythm, just make the timpani look like a big drum. Anyway, There are all kinds of weird things, and when you really need some specific bass, you still have to put out the cello, so why bother.

The final piece of music that was compiled is not that great if you want to say it is unpleasant, but it is really not that outstanding, and most of the songs that were adapted were adapted from folk songs and folk tunes. In the end, many of the songs were not as good as solos. Tasteful.

Anyway, Wang Xu has really listened to a lot of folk band performances. The techniques and emotions are all good, but the overall feeling is wrong, giving people a feeling that the more they listen to it, the more awkward it becomes.

It is not as effective as those flute solos, guzheng solos, and erhu solos that are purely used with a Western band, because in such a solo environment, the unique timbre and flavor of the national instruments are highlighted.

So, Wang Xu really feels that there is nothing to save from the folk orchestra. That thing is neither history, nor inheritance, nor the future. It is just a reform product that is not very successful.

As for the folk music itself, Wang Xu doesn't think there is anything to help. In today's era, whether it is Western or ethnic, there are not many people studying music, but is that a problem with music? It is poor and troublesome.

When people have money, art courses such as music and art will naturally flourish in the future. How much does a brass flute cost? How much does a bamboo flute cost? Anyway, they are all to cultivate some musical cells and learn the flute. , there are many young and old students learning suona.

As for relying on this to support the family, I bet that there are more people who use the suona for food than those who use the trumpet or oboe. Music is not only performed in bars and restaurants, but also at weddings and funerals.

Even the second-hand roses have performed in vain, so who can be more noble than the other.

Most of the existing folk music comes from the folk, and most of the past elegant music and court music have been lost. Even if some of it can be restored now, the most it can do is listen to it as a cultural relic, write down the score, and keep it.

Music is really about letting nature take its course. You have to be in line with the times, and there is no use in promoting it forcefully.

Unless a genius comes out one day and writes some shocking music that can be passed down from generation to generation, then folk music can really flourish. It cannot just be one person, but a group of such figures must appear like Europe back then.

But the problem is that even in the West, there is no such fertile soil now, and no real masters have been produced for a long time.

But with the rise of movie soundtracks and game soundtracks, symphonies have once again found new applications, and many new symphonies have been born, which have been widely praised on the Internet.

In fact, continuing to follow a small but beautiful path may be more suitable for the development of folk music. Later, the Twelve Women's Orchestra established by Wang Xiaojing was suspected of being marginal, but its simplified folk music configuration may really be more suitable for the promotion of folk music in the new era.

The earliest folk orchestras began in the 1920s. Some folk music masters in the Republic of China imitated the establishment of Western symphony orchestras. At first, they only had about ten or twenty people, and at most they had twenty or thirty people. Now they have hundreds of people. A big team.

This kind of thing, the country is the main body, there is no problem in doing a few, just like doing scientific research and exploration, there is always someone to play with something different, maybe one day a genius will emerge, but there is really no need to make a big fanfare To promote.

As for the rest, just leave it to the market. If people recognize it, people will naturally buy tickets to listen to it, and people will naturally learn to do it. There is no need to work hard to promote it.

Therefore, Wang Xu does not think that there is any need to do this thing, but it is better not to rush into it. It is enough for the state to pay for the maintenance of some ethnic orchestras, and there is no need to vigorously promote them.

This time, Wang Xu didn't hide anything. He drank tea and smoked cigarettes with Professor Jin while chatting about his own opinions. These were his own opinions, and there had never been any official opinions.

In later generations, folk orchestras from all over the country are actually still alive, but most of them are just alive, supported by the state and not so glorious. Most of them take jobs for various cultural and tourism projects, and are not as popular as the girl who plays the guzheng on Douyin.

Anyway, if you put on a Hanfu and perform like that on the stage, you can't hear clearly even from a distance. No one cares whether it's good or not, it just means that.

Is there any new folk music in China? Of course, there are a lot of shengs, pipes, flutes, xiaos, harps, zithers, suonas, erhus and even matouqin, which appear in many movie soundtracks and game soundtracks.

An instrument can give full play to its timbre and make the most beautiful music. As for the accompaniment, coordination, and sound, just use it. There is absolutely no need to build the nation for the sake of the nation, and what is the use of the soundtrack? Use whatever is familiar.

Therefore, even if it is a new folk music soundtrack, the folk orchestra itself is at best used as background music to enhance the atmosphere, and most of them are actually accompanied by symphony orchestras.

Even in later generations, most of the folk band performances were free tickets, and few people watched them. People are willing to spend money to go to Suzhou to listen to Pingtan, to the imperial capital to listen to Peking Opera, and to Chang'an to listen to Qin Opera, but few people are willing to spend money to listen to folk orchestras.

The people at the bottom can't understand it, the lower class people can't listen to it, the middle class can't listen to it, the wealthy class can't understand it. Except for the folk band itself, really no one listens to it.

However, there is quite a market for some solo masters. This phenomenon itself shows that the creation of folk orchestras has not been successful. Maybe some geniuses will emerge one day and can promote this thing. Wang Xu is not optimistic about it anyway.

And those folk music that have been widely praised in later generations are almost all solos. This is because people have chosen this kind of music independently. If you say that people have chosen it themselves, they may not have a good life.

Later generations of flute enthusiasts, guzheng enthusiasts, and suona enthusiasts can say that there are more people who like trumpets, violins, and saxophones than those who like trumpets, violins, and saxophones. How do you need Wang Xu to help? People are having a good time themselves.

Professor Jin listened very carefully, and interrupted Wang Xu from time to time, and even argued with Wang Xu, but Wang Xu originally had his own opinion, and there was no right way to say this, so he could speak freely.

As for finding some way to survive now, in fact, this is not just a problem of folk orchestras, nor is it a problem of so-called folk music education. In the final analysis, it is a problem of national strength. If you are poor, it is good if you can maintain it. Seeking development is a false proposition.

Folk orchestras have a hard time, but symphony orchestras have it better? It's not the same. In the past two years, many people from the symphony orchestra have gone abroad, and many have changed their minds. They go to bars and other places to play accompaniment and make ends meet.

In the 1990s, everything was looking to the West. Of course, they didn't engage in folk music, and they didn't go out to make extra money by bragging, so they naturally seemed a little poor.

But even if Wang Xu established Twelve Women's Band, most of the folk music should be done as it should be, and I'm afraid they are the ones with the most fierce opposition.

In fact, he often used national musical instruments in his orchestration. Professor Jin took it for granted that Wang Xu had great ideas for the reform of folk music. Unexpectedly, he got such an opinion, which was very different from his original idea.

However, he is not so anxious anymore. He himself feels that folk music is a bit too much for him. Perhaps he should start with the reform of education itself and not just think about organizing folk orchestras.

Those who play the flute should play the flute well, and those who play the suona should play the suona well. As Wang Xu said, the unique timbre of these instruments always has a place in music.

Wang Xu recently composed a series of songs called "Greater Dunhuang". Several songs used a large number of northwest ethnic musical instruments, which perfectly presented the desolate atmosphere of the northwest wasteland. However, he also did not refuse to use drums, guitars, etc. Modern musical instruments seem to serve the tone.

It didn't deliberately use folk music, and it even followed the path of pop and rock, but once you hear it, you will know that it is the northwest of China, and the smell of sand can be felt as soon as you open your mouth.

According to the timbre, compose some solo pieces and compose some music that can promote this timbre. This is the way that folk music should go, rather than imitating others and having to learn Western music and start a folk orchestra.

Even if there are a few more red and white songs, they are all contributions to the people.

Perhaps this is the direction that music conservatories should focus on cultivating and developing in the future.

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(See you tomorrow)