Starting with this chapter, we will officially start the journey of appreciating popular music, with the preparation of the first few chapters, we have a general understanding of some basic knowledge of popular music, and in the future content, we will take out some classic songs for analysis. At the same time of analysis, some background content related to the song will be listed for your reference. The songs chosen are works that the editor considers to be excellent according to his own preferences and understanding of music, and will involve some foreign songs. Because we live in different times, geographies, education, and understanding of music, I think it's good that some people may disagree. But the benevolent see the wise and the wise see the wise, and each retains his own opinion. In addition, for some songs that everyone is familiar with, if there is no special situation (the need to introduce music knowledge), it will not be recommended again. At the same time, I also hope that readers who see this article can also recommend music works that you think are good.
The first song "The Last Night"
The lyricist of this song is Shen Zhi, the composer is Chen Zhiyuan, and it is sung by Cai Qin. Released in 1984, it was the theme song of the movie "The Last Night of Jin Daban" (a film adapted from Mr. Bai Xianyong's novel) and won the best original song at the 21st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. The film tells the story of the vicissitudes of the heroine Jin Daban from the "Paramount Gate" in Shanghai to the "Night Paris" in Taipei from the 1930s to the 1950s. Therefore, this song is based on the desired background and feeling of the era song.
1. The Song of the Times
In the 1930s and 1940s, Shanghai Beach was a world of flowers and flowers with red wine and drunken fans, and it was also a free world with cultural diversity, and various fashion arts and entertainment categories competed for development. After only a few years of opening up and exchanges in China, the urban culture sprouted and grew in Shanghai, and Shanghai integrated the Western colonial culture and the traditional Chinese national culture with the mind of The Sea, forming a Shanghai urban culture characterized by popularization, diversification and commercialization, that is, at that time, Shanghainese created a "Shanghai culture" with Shanghai characteristics.
As a branch of the "Shanghai School culture", The Times Qu has gained the opportunity for rapid development. At this time, sound films in the history of Chinese cinema continued to emerge, and the most powerful British businessmen in the recording industry, "Baidai", American businessmen "Victory", and Chinese businessmen "Greater China" record companies formed a three-legged trend in Shanghai, in addition, there were a large number of small and medium-sized record companies and commercial private radio stations mushrooming in Shanghai. The successful commercial operations of Lai Kam Fai's love songs such as recording and publishing book scores made Times Song one of the most popular song genres in the 30s and 40s.
Shanghai Paramount
2. Representative works of the era song
The songs of this period are divided into two categories: one is the popular songs with folk song flavor composed by Li Jinhui's era song using folk minor keys, represented by He Luting's "Tianya Song Girl" and "Song of the Four Seasons"; The other is a fashionable pop beat style composed of Fully Absorbing Western Music Elements represented by Lai Kam-kwong's "Night Fragrance", "Shangri-La" and Chen Gexin's "Rose Rose I Love You" and "Night Shanghai". And Liu Xue'an's "He Rijun Again" composed in 1936 is a landmark pop song that transitions from the first creative style to the second creative style in the history of Chinese music, which not only inherits the five-voice national style, but also uses strong rhythmic European and American pop music elements, so that the creation of early Chinese pop songs transitions to another creative path, opening the door to lead the creation of China's prosperous urban pop songs in the 40s. Chinese pop songs have since truly entered a climax of development.
On April 6, 1951, american singer Frankie Lane covered "Rose Rose I Love You", which quickly became popular in the United States, and once ranked third on the charts. There is also a movie of the same name.
Third, how to appreciate
The rhythm of "The Last Night" is a round dance (also known as a waltz), originated in the Austrian and German Linderler dance, used for social dances in the second half of the 18th century, and became popular in Western European countries in the 19th century, it uses 3/4 beats, emphasizes the accent on the first beat, the melody is smooth, the rhythm is obvious, and only one chord is used in each bar in the accompaniment, which is called the round dance because the dance needs to be rotated in pairs by two people. This is what we usually call slow three. The slow waltz's speed is 28-30 bars/min, which translates to three 4-cent notes per bar is 84 – 90/min.
waltz
The song's accompaniment does not have a strong rhythm, and the very light drum brush plays a "pop-and-click" rhythm, followed by piano and strings. Coupled with Cai Qin's alto singing, it can be well reflected in the lovers dancing in the dim light at night, one two three, one two three. In terms of tonality, it is based on 5 as the starting tone and 1 as the ending tone, so this is a major song. Judging from the feeling of the whole song, this song is indeed not a sad song, more like an experienced woman's review of the past, even if there are many unbearable, it has passed, and the song finally scatters back and skims.
A brief score of "The Last Night"
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