A classic TV drama work is usually accompanied by the birth of one or more classic music works, such as the "Good Han Song" of "Water Margin", the "Frown of the Red Chamber", the "Rolling Water of the East Yangtze River" of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Journey to the West" can be described as the four famous works in TV drama music, its music is numerous, the number of interludes, the wide range of circulation, and the high degree of singing are all phenomenal in China's TV drama industry.
There are authoritative statistics on the Internet, not counting the opening songs that were first abandoned, not counting those accompaniment music, just the opening credits and interludes of "Journey to the West" there are as many as sixteen songs, of which the higher degree of singing is "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is", "Daughter Love", "Why the West Is Far Away" and "Daughter Love", and in addition to these songs, the classic opening song has become a classic in the classic.
Now everyone generally names the opening song of "Journey to the West" "Yungong Xunyin", the author has checked a lot of information and cannot find the authoritative source, and the authoritative media uses the "Journey to the West Overture".
The birth and adoption of this opening song can be described as a thousand times, and its birth is legendary. Originally, the "Journey to the West" crew adopted Wang Liping's "Hundred Twists and Turns to Show Sincerity" composed of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the singing was Wu Yanze, which was reflected in the trial broadcast. With the evaluation of the current netizens is the feeling of water margin liaozhai into one, this is really a bit interesting, Wang Liping is indeed "Shaolin Temple" and "Liaozhai" composer, this song does have the shadow of "Shaolin Temple".
Yang Jie gave the task of the new opening song to Xu Jingqing, who was inspired by the sound of migrant workers tapping their lunch boxes with spoons when he thought about it for three days, and the soul-stirring soprano in the opening song was the voice he felt in his sleep.
Once the "Journey to the West Overture" came out, director Yang Jie first approved it, but it was rejected by a leader at the internal meeting of CCTV, believing that the four famous works were inappropriate to use electric sounds. To this end, Yang Jie resolutely wrote a letter to the relevant leaders to show his determination to die to the end, and finally the "Journey to the West Overture" was successfully passed.
"Journey to the West Overture" first opened the TV series with electroacoustic music, specifically how many instruments it used, the author is not particularly professional, simply identifying electric guitar, bass bass, jazz drums, orchestral music, guzheng, pipa, harp, triangle iron, chimes, bango drums, konka drums and other instruments, plus the soprano that is lingering around the beam. In just two minutes and forty seconds, the Heavenly Palace, the Underground Palace, the Buddha Hall, tenacity, romance and funny in "Journey to the West" are all included, which can be described as the classics of the ancients in China's musical works.
The ending song "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is", the composition of this song also has allusions, Xu Jingqing saw the vendors outside the window selling clothes in the snow when he drove past the Beijing Zoo, and saw their busy figures running for their lives, and the two classic melodies popped up in his mind: a series of spring, autumn, winter, and summer, a bittersweet and bitter. In order to remember this melody, he got out of the car and quickly bought a box of cigarettes, spilled the cigarette on the ground, opened the cigarette box as paper, stopped a passing schoolboy who borrowed a pen and wrote it down on the telephone pole.
The song "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is" was sung by Jiang Dawei, but in fact, the first song was Zhang Momo. They have all been recorded and tested, and then replaced by Jiang Dawei. For this reason, Zhang Tyamo called Xu Jingqing on the second night of the Chinese New Year after watching "Qi Tianle Evening", and Xu Jingqing understood this.
In the "Journey to the West" episode, the author first recommended "Tianzhu Girl", not that the author liked it much, but this song was too popular at the school party, and girls danced With this song in the 1980s and 1990s. A significant difference between Indian songs and my national songs is that our national songs generally avoid the two tones of "hair" and "west" as much as possible, while Indian songs just like to emphasize these two tones, so there are more these two tones in "Tianzhu Maiden". At the same time, the frequency of Indian colloquialisms such as "Shariwa" in the lyrics is also very high, coupled with the perfect singing of Li Lingyu, the queen of sweet songs, this song has become the most popular Indian song in China.
The most frequently covered song in the "Journey to the West" episode is "Daughter Love", especially Li Jianyue Yunpeng's ghostly adaptation. This song Xu Jingqing took a day and a half to write, at first Yang Jie let Xu Jingqing sing two sentences on the phone, after listening to It, Yang Jie threw out a bad sentence. But when she went to the studio to listen to the full version, she was very happy and broke, and took the initiative to ask for more cassettes, and she sent the cassettes of this song as gifts to the leaders one by one.
The popularity of "Daughter Love" is inseparable from the original singer Wu Jing, who was originally a printing factory word checker, and the discovery of her Bole is the famous singer Wang Kun. Wu Jing's voice is round and soft, sweet and beautiful. At that time, she was the lead singer of the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe, in addition to this song, she also sang the same song with different words of "It is difficult to see each other and it is difficult to say goodbye" and another classic song "Why the West Is Far Away".
Xingxian's "Why The West Heavens Are Far Away" is one of the few lighthearted and cheerful songs in "Journey to the West", and the scene at that time Tang Monk did not have to worry about being eaten meat, everyone sat together and sang tea, why not be happy. This song has also become a classic song that netizens praise more.
Finally, two more tear-inducing songs, one is "Three Dozen White Bone Essences" Monkey Brother was driven away "Blowing away this little sadness", the author admitted that when I saw this scene when I was a child, I really shed tears when I heard this song.
The other is "Five Hundred Years of Mulberry Field Canghai", this song is very full of emotional expression, from the initial depression, sadness and despair, and then to the excitement of emotions. In the film, the expression of Brother Monkey recalls the pride of the Heavenly Palace in that year, making this song quite educational, and the things that are not cherished usually are really precious until they are lost. I strongly recommend that the song and the picture can be looped in a detention center or prison single.
There are too many classics, and I will not list them all. Finally, the author of these classic works, Yan Su alone occupies twelve songs in the lyrics, and "Daughter Love" is changed by Yang Jie on the basis of Yan Su. All the compositions were completed by Xu Jingqing alone. All the compositions of the Qi Tianle Gala in 1987 were also him.
Xu Jingqing has been obscure for decades, and we have listened to the classic music of "Journey to the West" so many times that we rarely notice the master behind it. In 2016, Xu Jingqing's "Journey to the West Theme Concert" was performed at the Great Hall of the People, and in September 2018, the "Journey to the West Music Scene Concert" was staged in Tianjin. The author did not know these two times, I sincerely hope that Teacher Xu can hold another one, then the author will definitely participate.