Singing is the clarion call of the times, and in the hundred-year journey of the Communist Party of China, there are many classic songs that have left an indelible mark on people's hearts. A large number of outstanding anti-war songs were born in the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, such as "Songhua On the River", "Guerrilla Song", "On the Taihang Mountain", "Yellow River Chorus", and so on, which became the spiritual torch that unites the national strength. Among them, one of the most famous anti-war songs is the "March of the Volunteer Army" to be introduced today.
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In the exhibition area showing the heroic deeds of Northeast Anti-Japanese heroes Zhao Yiman, Ji Hongchang and others, at the same time, the poster of the progressive film "Children of the Wind and Clouds" filmed in Shanghai in 1935 and the theme song of the movie "March of the Volunteer Army" are also exhibited.
Xiang Yansheng, researcher at the Institute of Music of the China Academy of Arts: Dentsu Film Company is a company founded under the direct leadership of our party's film group, and Tian Han, as the main force of the left-wing movement, wrote a film script called "Children of the Wind and Clouds." Dentsu's own pictorial newspaper is called "Dentsu Pictorial Semi-Monthly", in the second issue of the cover of the second issue of the "Volunteer March" song score, the film has not been screened before, the record has been released first, and then the film came out again, the song spread very quickly.
The violin in this display case was used by the people's musician Nie Er, who in the short 23 years of nie er's life, he personally experienced the war and used music as a weapon, leaving 42 musical works such as "March of the Volunteer Army", "Graduation Song" and "Pioneer of the Way", inspiring the sons and daughters of China. The short-paced, powerful and emotional March of the Volunteers is extremely artistically appealing.
Xiang Yansheng, researcher at the Institute of Music of the China Academy of Arts: This song is very popular and very popular. Although it is a march, according to general speaking, it is very easy to Westernize, but Nie Er did a very good job, using only two tones, a second-level sound, a sixth-level tone, and dragged it back, very Sinicized and nationalized. In terms of tone and rhythm, they are very combative and revolutionary. Starting from Nie Er, many of these anti-war songs were written and were very popular, so the real anti-Japanese salvation song movement set off a climax from Nie Er.
Music and literature theorist Chen Feng: "Get up, people who do not want to be slaves", just sing people to the point of boiling blood, the melody is so radical, it is impossible for you to stop for half a step, in the face of strong enemies we only charge forward, we must not retreat half a step.
Displayed in the display case, along with the first edition of the "Volunteer March" record published in Shanghai in 1935, is a record of the 1941 Black American singer Paul Robertson singing "Get Up", clicking on the live multimedia touch screen, playing paul Robertson's Chinese version of that year. Under his dissemination, the "March of the Volunteer Army" became an international war song on the anti-fascist battlefield of the world. The origin of all this is related to the person who signed the album cover as Liu Liangmo.
Xiang Yansheng, researcher at the Music Research Institute of the China Academy of Arts: Liu Liangmo is actually an underground party member of our CCP, and when he was forced to leave China to study in the United States, he taught Robertson to use Chinese to sing this "March of the Volunteer Army". Paul Robertson is a very famous black singer in the United States, he has a great appeal in the masses, and has played a great international role in the dissemination of our "March of the Volunteers" in China. He sang it not only in the United States, but also in England, in the Czech Republic, in the Soviet Union.
Music and Literature Theorist Chen Feng: As the most famous poem of our 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, "March of the Volunteer Army" records that we have a period of indomitable true national spirit and Chinese spirit of the Chinese nation, which is a fine product and crystallization, and we are not afraid of hardships and dangers to strive for national independence and freedom and liberation.
It is precisely with this national will that the majestic singing voice of "The March of the Volunteer Army" has been sung from the War of Resistance Against Japan to the War of Liberation, and in the 84-word lyrics, 37 bars of beat, and 46 seconds of singing time, each of its notes reflects the national spirit of bravely moving forward.
Pei Fei, A CCTV reporter of the General Radio Corporation: From the birth of the "March of the Volunteer Army" in the exhibition hall on the first floor to the musical score exhibits of the "National Anthem of the People's Republic of China" in the exhibition hall on the second floor, this section of the exhibition line only takes ten minutes, but such victories have been bought by countless Communist Party members and the masses of the people in bloody struggle, and this lofty melody on this bright red background board will always inspire every Chinese.
(CCTV reporter Pei Fei, Shao Shukuan, Huang Xin)
(Edited by Zhu Xinwei)