Those little knowledge about the guzheng examination song "Guan Shan Yue"
Starting from this issue, we will update a series of themes related to the guzheng examination song - "Zither Song Miscellaneous". Most kite practitioners, in the process of learning, will be exposed to examination songs, behind these songs, or inextricably linked to local music culture, or closely related to a big name in the guzheng industry... It is also necessary to understand the relevant knowledge outside of the zither playing technique. The track we bring to this issue is "Guan Shan Yue".
Was the original "Guan Shan Yue" a guzheng song? Of course not! In fact, "Guan Shanyue" was originally a song of the Han Music House, which belonged to the "Drum Horn Horizontal Blowing Song", which was often sung on horseback by the border guards at that time, and the music expressed the feeling of homesickness and homesickness. Later, it was adapted into a guqin song. The earliest surviving score of "Guan Shanyue" is the "Wei Family Music Score" published in Japan in 1768, which is said to have been transmitted by Wei Hou (Zhi Yan), who took refuge in Japan in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The lyrics are the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's poem "The Bright Moon Rises from the Heavenly Mountains, Between the Vast Clouds and the Sea". Published in 1931, the Mei'an Qin notation was compiled by Xu Lisun based on the fragments of Wang Yanqing's "Long Yinguan Musical Score" and the biography of Mei'an, which contains a song called "Guan Shanyue", which is different in tone from that contained in the Wei's Musical Score, and the tone and rhyme are similar, but there are no lyrics. In the early 1950s, Xia Yifeng, Yang Yinliu and others re-matched Li Bai's "Guan Shan Yue" and the score into singing, becoming a widely popular string song in modern times. This piece is also a representative of the short and concise, and is an introductory piano piece.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Shandong folk song "Scolding Lover" that also borrowed this tune. Therefore, there is also a theory that this song is adapted from the Shandong folk song "Scolding Lover", and composed by Wang Yanqing and Jialun fingers.
In 1990, the pianist Xie Xiaoping published "Overseas Discovery of the LoneLyral Book of the Dragon Yinguan Musical Score", which detailed the process of discovering the orphan copy of the "Dragon Yinguan Musical Score" in the library of Leiden University in the Netherlands, and found "Guan Shanyue" in the piano score, which is basically the same as the "Guan Shanyue" transmitted by Wang Yanqing in the "Mei'an Piano Score". That is to say, more than a hundred years earlier than "scolding the lover", the piano song "Guan Shanyue" with the same name and the same tune already exists. "Guan Shanyue" is originally a piano song transmitted by the "Dragon Yinguan Musical Score".
The Guzheng examination song "Guan Shanyue" of the China Conservatory of Music, which is now played, is a transplant of guqin music, and the compiler is Mr. Cao Zheng, the founder of the Chinese guzheng academy and the grandmaster of the Chinese guzheng generation. Regarding Mr. Cao Zheng, we will also introduce it to you in future programs. Welcome to follow us!