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At the same time, it is the launch of these two works that makes Cao Xuanbin have a new and unique musical personality for most fans. However, Cao Xuanbin's music personality does not rely on packaging, but on the real deep cultivation and exploration in the field of national style.
Last year's "Farewell To Jun Sigh" is a new creation by Cao Xuanbin on the basis of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei's classic work "Send yuan er to make Anxi", which uses the shaanxi dialect to interpret this song, which not only shows that Cao Xuanbin's archaeology and truth-seeking spirit for the background of the original creation when interpreting the work, but also triggered a big discussion on how to present the original national style works.
Yu Qian was a famous courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and also a national hero with the same name as Yue Fei in Chinese history, but Yu Qian was more often famous for his loyalty and national integrity, many people actually do not know that Yu Qian is also a poet, leaving many wonderful verses in the Five Words and Seven Laws.
And Cao Xuanbin before the "Classic Wing Chuan" stage interpretation of "Remote Recitation", also read a paragraph of "Except for the Night Taiyuan Cold", although this song and "Li Chun Ri Feeling Nostalgia", one is five words, one is seven laws, the theme is not the same, but in fact, through the sensual communication between the two, especially let the open-mindedness and optimism in "Except for the Night Taiyuan Cold", to extend the more in-depth intention of "Li Chun Ri Feeling", it is enough to show the depth of Cao Xuanbin's creative meaning.
Therefore, "Li Chun Ri Nostalgia" is still "Li Chun Ri Nostalgia", but under cao Xuanbin's creation and interpretation, it has become a new "Remote Recitation"!
In the melody creation, "Distant Words" integrates the techniques of Chinese poetry recitation and Western musical theater, thus forming the artistic beauty of deep bass and high-pitched stretching. In terms of arrangement and production structure, the whole song also adds strings, cymbals, Jinghu and other Eastern and Western instruments, coupled with the integration of opera, so as to use the instrument and the culture behind it to infinitely lengthen the time and space width of the whole song, forming a kind of depth that originates from history and transcends history.
Slightly different from the previous "BeiJun Sigh", if "Beijun Sigh" is a classical scene that Cao Xuanbin hopes to restore and reproduce in a modern way, "Weicheng is raining and dusty, the guest house is green and willow-colored; persuade jun to drink a glass of wine, and the west is out of the Yangguan without a reason", then "Remote Recitation" also uses music to highlight the homesickness of Qian, and also extends the artistic conception of the whole work through the way of creation.
Because of the theme of homesickness, "Feeling Nostalgia for Spring Day" as a whole is a relatively sad seven laws, but through the musical re-shaping of another lyricist, Li Qi and Cao Xuanbin, especially the introduction of the optimistic and open-minded spirit in the hardships of "Except for the Night Taiyuan Cold", not only makes "Remote Recitation" have a kind of emotional progression and enrichment, but also allows Yu Qian, as a famous courtier with home and country feelings, to express his emotions under the contradiction between home and country, there is a more three-dimensional and more humane presentation.
In particular, the sense of power brought about by the extension of the second half is actually a song's breakthrough and breaking, so that "Distant Words" really reaches the artistic conception of free rein.
This is also the high level of Cao Xuanbin's national style music. In an era when many people only regard the national style as a trend, Cao Xuanbin's national style creation, from "Beijun Sigh" to "Remote Recitation", he first sought truth like an archaeologist, trying to restore and truly reproduce the meaning of the historical background of the original work one by one.
On the other hand, Cao Xuanbin, because of his real understanding of the heart, can stand in the creative angle of those classic works of the ancients, in the way of artistic imagination, based on reality and highly sublimated re-creation, so that the ancient style works, not only the pavilions, flats and so on, but really become a flowing body through the ancient and modern, the ancient wind blows on the body, there is also a realistic temperature.
In fact, works like "Distant Recitation" use Yu Qian's poems and write Yu Qian's feelings, but Cao Xuanbin is also in the middle of this, conveying the feelings of home and country that are connected between ancient and modern times. For example, in this work, in addition to Yu Qian's remote thoughts about his hometown, he can also make people place the same affectionate remote thoughts on the firefighting heroes who died heroically in the recent Liangshan fire in Sichuan. The same homeland, different battlefields, but with the same feelings, this is the most advanced expression of ancient music.
Of course, from "Don't Jun Sigh" to "Distant Recitation", the reason why Cao Xuanbin can establish a stable national style of music personality is precisely that Cao Xuanbin is not a musician who deliberately pursues what style for what style. From the piano playing and singing in "Distant Words", and his fusion of melody and poetry, it is precisely his cultivation of classical music.
It is also the solid foundation of classical music that allows Cao Xuanbin to truly penetrate the ancient and modern from the core of music, so that the ancient style is not just a light wind in the form, but a hurricane intertwined with cultural contexts.
At the same time, don't forget Cao Xuanbin's accumulation in Chinese pop music, but also let the ancient works such as "Don't Jun Sigh" and "Remote Recitation" also lose the real warmth and temperature, the kind of empathy resonance. And this kind of multi-dimensional singing not only allows Cao Xuanbin to have a larger musical pattern, but in turn, when applied to a certain musical scene, it will also appear all-encompassing and inherent!