What are the characteristics of Cantonese opera singing?

Question 1: What are the characteristics of Cantonese opera? Cantonese opera is also called "Guangdong Drama" or "Grand Drama". One of the traditional operas in Guangdong is a kind of drama formed by Guangdong artists absorbing the sounds of operas from other provinces, singing in easy-to-understand language, and blending into local ballads and minor tunes.

hair decorations

Cantonese opera hair accessories are mainly pieces, hats, buns and ornaments, and there are systematic pieces, hats and ornaments. Different kinds of headwear, bun, braid and contract also have their own characteristics, usage, production methods, wearing and maintenance equipment.

Dress

Traditional Cantonese opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, opening, official clothes, official clothes and clothes. The material is mainly cloth, and the embroidery clothing is the mainstream in the play.

aria

The vocal music of Cantonese opera is mainly divided into three categories: banqiang, Qupai and poetry praise.

musical instrument

There are more than forty kinds of musical instruments used in Cantonese opera, which can be roughly divided into four categories: wind instruments, plucked instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments. Among them, plucked instruments include guzheng, pipa and butterfly piano; The gongs and drums include fishboards, sand drums, double-skin drums/bangzi drums, cymbals, Luo Jing, hook gongs, war drums, big wooden fish, small wooden fish, big gongs and cymbals, and big drums. After the reform of Cantonese Opera, many western musical instruments were adopted, such as saxophone and violin, which made the music effect more perfect.

Question 2: The characteristics of Cantonese opera The artistic characteristics of Cantonese opera: The lyrics of Cantonese opera are easy to understand. Musically, folk songs are interspersed in the singing of "Banghuang", and the singing method is changed from "falsetto" to "flat throat" (true voice). After repeated practice, they are all sung in Guangzhou dialect.

The "mountain-crossing class" in rural activities retains the rough and simple characteristics of the early days. Many famous actors have unique skills in one foot, somersault, bun and pie mouth. Wushu is based on "Nanquan", which includes powerful bull's-eye, hand boxing, Shaolin boxing, difficult chair skills, high platform skills and so on. After the role appears, it is quite rare for a man to "jump" and a woman to "bend her back".

The style of stage art is almost freehand brushwork. The scenery is simple, and the designated scenes in the play are mainly displayed through virtual performances. When the program can't be shown, the signboard says "riverside" and "mountain".

The "Provincial and Hong Kong Large Class" performed in our city absorbed some artistic nutrition from drama, opera and film, and made considerable improvement in reflecting contemporary life and making the performance more lively. Most of the repertoires are Shengdan dramas, which emphasize singing over doing, while literary dramas are more than martial arts dramas. However, there are also some new performance programs that refine and create from life, learn and absorb performance skills from movies and dramas, and form a free, flexible, popular and delicate performance style based on realism.

The stage art emphasizes realism, and the scenery uses soft scenes with frames as the mainstay, as well as lighting and hard films. Clothing and makeup are gorgeous and ingenious. Later, it was developed to install electric lights, movie costumes, helmets and props with institutional scenery.

Voice characteristics: male singing is stable and low, sometimes slightly hoarse; The girl sings beautifully and roundly.

Question 3: Cantonese Opera is one of the local operas in Guangdong Province and a very influential opera in southern China. Because it is produced in Guangdong, it is called Cantonese Opera. It originated in Guangzhou and Foshan, and now it is mainly popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Macau. As many overseas Chinese are descendants of Cantonese, Cantonese opera is often performed in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities. Cantonese opera mainly sings Bangzi and Huanger, while retaining the dialects of Kunshan, Geyang and Guangqiang, and absorbing the folk music and tunes of the Pearl River Delta. Singing in Guangzhou dialect, it is also called "Guangdong Banghuang", "Cantonese Opera" and "Guangfu Opera".

The development of history

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Yiyang, Kunshan, Bangzi, Huizhou and Han dialects were introduced into Guangdong. The tunes played by Guangdong local troupe are greatly influenced by these foreign tunes. The music they sang was called "Guangdiao", and traces of Yiyang's harmony with Kunqu opera can be seen from the music of Cantonese opera. During Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou's troupes were divided into local troupes and Waijiang troupes. Most classes in Waijiang perform Hui Opera, while most local classes perform Bangzi Opera. The early activity center of the local class was in Foshan. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, many provincial troupes came to Guangdong, and local troupes drew rich nutrients from Waijiang troupes, and their art gradually matured and gradually formed their own characteristics. During the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods of the Qing Dynasty, the tunes of Gaokang and Kunshan gradually declined, and the local classes mainly sang clappers. The influence of the post-Huizhou class is expanding day by day, with "Bangzichun" (that is, Xipi and Huanger) as the basic singing. At the same time, some Kunshan, Yiyang and Cantonese operas were retained, and Guangdong folk music and popular tunes were absorbed. At this time, the local class has been "completely different" from the Waijiang class, and then gradually formed Cantonese opera.

In the fourth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1854), Cantonese opera artist Li led the children of Liyuan and Chen Kai, a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, to respond to the Taiping Rebellion and claimed to be the king. Therefore, the Qing dynasty * * * banned local operas. After the ban, the local class was silent 15 years. During this period, Cantonese opera artists can only join the troupe of Han Opera and Hui Opera, or perform in the name of Peking Opera and other operas. In this way, Bangzi and Chunqiang in Cantonese opera began to merge. Later, the composition of Huang Er in Cantonese opera even surpassed that of Bangzi. In the eleventh year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (186 1), the ban was slightly relaxed and local classes rose again. During the Tongzhi period (1862- 1874), Cantonese opera artists gave public performances, and their class clubs visited Henan, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Anhui, Hong Kong and Macao.

After the resumption of Cantonese opera performance, great changes have taken place in the repertoire content and performing arts. During the Revolution of 1911, influenced by the new drama (civilized drama, that is, early drama) of Chunliu Society, Cantonese opera artists organized "Shi Zhi Class" to publicize revolutionary democratic ideas. Under the wave of this new concept, Cantonese opera began to improve, and its content and form have undergone great changes. Around 1920, Cantonese opera was completely localized in language, changed from "Mandarin in the opera studio" to Cantonese, and the singing method was also changed to the original sound, giving up the falsetto singing method of Bangzi opera. Both Bangzi and Chun Er sang in a low octave, which unified the style and singing method of Bangzi and Leather Spring.

Around 1920, with the development of capitalist business in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao, some Cantonese opera clubs also take Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao and other big cities as their activity bases, which are customarily called "provincial and Hong Kong classes". "Provincial and Hong Kong Class" has performed in theaters in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and other metropolises, and has absorbed a lot of techniques of civilized dramas, dramas and movies, and has undergone great changes in music singing, roles, performances, stage layout, performances and so on. Its basic vocal cavity is dominated by clappers and two springs, but it also retains other folk rap tunes and introduces pop songs and jazz music. Western instruments such as violin, saxophone, electric guitar and jazz drum are also used as accompaniment instruments. The performance was greatly simplified. Role trades have changed from the original top ten trades to a "six-pillar system", namely Wen Wusheng, Xiao Sheng, Andrew Hua Dan, Erhua Gangdan, Ugly Student and Wu Sheng. The arrangement of the play should take into account the drama points of the six pillars. There are many new plays in the repertoire, and traditional plays are rarely performed. A large number of new plays have been adapted from movies, foreign novels, popular plays, plays and some fabricated plays.

The 1930s was an era of great changes in Cantonese opera, also known as the era of "learning from horses for hegemony". Xue Juexian, a martial arts writer, and Ma Shiceng, an ugly female student, have made great contributions to the innovation of Cantonese opera. Xue Juexian is close to the style of Peking Opera and has comprehensive performance skills. He is called "all-round old man", but as a young man, he is outstanding. His representative works include Hu Bugui and four other tragedies. The jockey won with a clown. He exposed the ugly behavior of feudal rich capitalists in a group drama featuring "lonely and cold species" (miser), including ...

Question 4: What are the characteristics of Cantonese opera? Cantonese opera is a traditional folk program in the south. It is highly recognized in South Guangdong. These characteristics are summarized as follows:

The aria is mainly composed of Bangzi and Huanger's banqiang, supplemented by Qupai. At the same time, Guangdong folk accents such as Nanyin, Cantonese, Muyu, Dragon Boat and Banyan were retained.

The stage art style of Cantonese opera is almost freehand brushwork. The scene is simple, and the specified situation in the play is mainly displayed through virtual performance programs.

The repertoire of Cantonese opera is mostly Shengdan opera, which emphasizes singing and ignores doing, and literati drama is more than martial arts. Wushu is based on "Nanquan", which includes powerful target, hand bridge, Shaolin boxing, difficult chair skills, high platform skills and so on.

Question 5: The characteristics of Cantonese opera Cantonese opera was born out of Cantonese opera. For a long time, it has a very close relationship with Cantonese opera in singing music. Its tunes are basically the same as the plate, including Bangzi, Huang Er, Brand, folk rap and ditty. There are various singing methods, and the period of being a teacher and mother can be divided into ten professions, such as Xiao Sheng, Hua Dan and Wusheng. There are three types of actresses: big throat, flat throat and secondary throat. Cantonese opera keeps pace with the times. It is good at absorption, integration, continuous enrichment and innovation, and broadens the field of vocal music. For example, Bangzi and Spring in Cantonese Opera, Dragon Boat in Guangdong Quyi, Nanyin, Cantonese songs, Muyu songs and even Cantonese songs (including miscellaneous tunes or instrumental music) are all used for lyrics singing. Besides Gao Hu and dulcimer, the accompaniment also includes saxophone, violin and electronic organ. Guangdong Quyi has two kinds: broad sense and narrow sense. Guangdong Quyi in a broad sense refers to all kinds of Quyi in Guangdong Province, such as Cantonese Opera, Muyu Song, Dragon Boat Song, Nanyin, Chaozhou Song, Hakka Bamboo Song and Fresh Water Song. In fact, it refers to rap literature in Guangzhou and Lingnan areas. In a narrow sense, Cantonese Quyi only refers to Cantonese opera singing. Cantonese opera singing method: Cantonese opera is a branch of Cantonese opera and the most popular Daqu in Guangzhou dialect, which is sung in Guangzhou dialect. Cantonese opera is popular in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and other places, and spread to Southeast Asia and places where Chinese people live in the United States. Cantonese opera was originally the tune of Cantonese opera, and later formed an independent drama. It has strong musicality, beautiful tunes, pays attention to the art of vocal cavity, and has unique style and local characteristics. Its vocals belong to the "Pihuang" system, which is composed of Bangzi, Huang Er, Paiziqu, Xiaoqu and storytelling. At the same time, it also absorbs the Han folk rap arts such as Dragon Boat, Nanyin, Muyu, Qi Yue and Banyan. The singing of Cantonese opera is also divided into three main vocal parts: big voice (tenor male voice), flat voice (flat voice male voice) and sub-voice (female voice only voice), which come from ten traditional operas, namely Xiao Sheng, Vu Thang, Xiaowu, Hua Dan, Bus Flower, Zheng Dan, Zheng Sheng, Lao Dan and Ugly.

Question 6: Characteristics of Cantonese Opera Culture The original name of Cantonese Opera is "Guangdong Bangzi", also known as "Guangdong Bangzi" and "Guangfu Opera". It is one of the local operas in Guangdong Province. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Macau. Cantonese opera is performed in areas where overseas Chinese live in compact communities. It is an influential opera in southern China.

Cantonese opera originated in Guangdong, and its origin can be traced back to the middle of Ming Dynasty more than 400 years ago. At this time, Haiyan opera has been introduced to Guangdong, and troupes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have come here to perform. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many foreign clubs came to Guangdong, including Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunqu Opera, Bangzi, Huizhou and Diao Han. Influenced by these foreign accents and tunes, there are obvious Yiyang and Kunqu elements in Cantonese opera.

During Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou's troupes were divided into "local troupes" and "Waijiang troupes". Most local troupes perform Bangzi opera, while the "Waijiang Troupe" performs Huizhou opera. During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, Cantonese opera artist Li responded to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became king, so the Qing Dynasty banned Cantonese opera 15 years. During the period of 15, Cantonese opera artists had to join the troupes of Han Opera and Hui Opera, and some performed under the name of Peking Opera and other operas. As a result, the Bangzi and Huanger operas in Cantonese opera began to merge, and even the composition of Huang Er opera surpassed that of Bangzi.

Qupai has two kinds: brand and ditty. Brands are mostly absorbed from Kunqu opera, Yiyang and Guangdong folk etiquette brand music; Xiaoqu includes traditional Chinese opera paper-cutting, Jiangnan bamboo rhyme, Cantonese opera, etc. Its music includes: Liu Qingniang, Dressing Table, selling groceries, Drought Thunder, proud as a peacock, Hong Xiuxie, Baihua Pavilion, Meng Jiangnv, Jade Beauty, A Lover, etc. , as well as new songs: hate breast-feeding, seeking needles, urging people to return, beating da ji, etc. Traditional songs of brands and ditties are mostly instrumental music with relatively fixed melodies.

The lyrics of Cantonese opera are easy to understand. Musically, folk songs are interspersed in the singing of "Bang Huang", and the singing method is changed from "falsetto" to "flat throat" (true voice). After repeated practice, they are all sung in Guangzhou dialect. The "mountain-crossing class" in rural activities retains the rough and simple characteristics of the early days. Many famous actors have unique skills in one foot, somersault, bun and pie mouth. Wushu is based on "Nanquan", which includes powerful bull's-eye, hand boxing, Shaolin boxing, difficult chair skills, high platform skills and so on. After the role appears, it is quite rare for a man to "jump" and a woman to "bend her back". The style of stage art is almost freehand brushwork. The scenery is simple, and the designated scenes in the play are mainly displayed through virtual performances. When the program can't be shown, the signboard says "riverside" and "mountain". The "Provincial and Hong Kong Large Class" performed in our city absorbed some artistic nutrition from drama, opera and film, and made considerable improvement in reflecting contemporary life and making the performance more lively. Most of the repertoires are Shengdan dramas, which emphasize singing over doing, while literary dramas are more than martial arts dramas. However, there are also some new performance programs that refine and create from life, learn and absorb performance skills from movies and dramas, and form a free, flexible, popular and delicate performance style based on realism.

Question 7: Cantonese opera aria music is mainly divided into three types: banqiang, Qupai and poetry praise. In fact, this is all related to the development of Chinese opera and Cantonese opera. Poetry praise is also called rap. Guangdong's local opera music should be based on rap-like Nanyin, Muyu, Dragon Boat, Banyan and Cantonese, because it is composed according to the linguistic characteristics of Cantonese. The rap vocals and lyrics in Guangdong must be divided into upper and lower groups on the basis of flat words and upper and lower sentences, because Cantonese is divided into yin and yang, and its pronunciation is very different from that of northern languages. The basic feature of Cantonese opera singing is banqiang, that is, Bangzi and Huanger, commonly known as "Banghuang", which is similar to the "skin yellow" of Beijing opera. Therefore, Cantonese opera also belongs to the North-South Road, that is, there is "Huang Er" singing in the South Road and "Bangzi" singing in the North Road. The most fundamental difference between banqiang singing, hymn singing and Qupai singing is that banqiang singing and hymn singing have no fixed melody, and the melody is determined by the pronunciation of the lyrics, so even if they are "adagio" or "medium board", they can have different musical melodies because of different lyrics. The singing of Qupai opera is based on the melody of music first, and then the lyrics are filled in, in which the backbone sound cannot be modified. Therefore, no matter how many thousands of songs with the same brand, even if the lyrics are different, their tones must be the same, otherwise a ditty will be filled differently. Although there are different forms and modes of Cantonese opera "Bang Bang", there are mainly two forms (of course, some newly created forms of Cantonese opera, such as orderly middle board, Xipi and Aitan, are special cases), namely, the old form and the new form. The old musical form refers to the different sections from seven sentences to cross-sentences, which are characterized by being divided into upper and lower sentence patterns according to the flat and flat meter of modern poetry. At first, it was seven-sentence rolling, then it developed to seven-sentence middle board, then to cross-sentence middle board, then to cross-sentence adagio, and then to seven-sentence adagio. The way to expand a seven-character sentence into a cross sentence is to add a word flush with the second and fourth words before the first word and the third word, and add a word before the fifth word to form a cross sentence. For example: "Fishing for the Cold River with Gold Hook and Silver Bait"-A Dream in the West Building, Xiao Xiaochi sings adagio. This song can be sung as "Hurry Up", or it can be changed into adagio or cross adagio, and it can be modified as: "Fishing with a gold hook, throwing a silver bait, fishing alone, cold river." Similarly, the middle board of some cross sentences can also be reversed, such as "you want to steal hedge flowers, remember the willows, and I will tell you the past, which is sad." —— The text of the cross sentence in "The Biography of Near-re-embodiment Hongmei" is as follows: "The flowers are hedged, the willows are on the banks, and the past is sad." -"The Story of the Near-re-embodiment of Hongmei" can be finished in seven sentences-"The love affair of the hedgerow willow is sad and bright" can also be sung in slow. The musical instruments used in early Cantonese opera were only Erxian, Violin, Yueqin, Xiao Di, Sanxian, Gong and cymbals, and their tones were relatively simple. After the lifting of the ban on Cantonese opera in Qing Dynasty, bangzi was added. After entering the mature stage, there are more than 40 kinds of musical instruments used in Cantonese opera, which can be roughly divided into four categories: wind instruments, plucked instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments. Among them, plucked instruments include guzheng, pipa and butterfly piano; The gongs and drums include fishboards, sand drums, double-skin drums/bangzi drums, cymbals, Luo Jing, hook gongs, war drums, big wooden fish, small wooden fish, big gongs and cymbals, and big drums. After the reform of Cantonese Opera, many western musical instruments were adopted, such as saxophone and violin, which made the music effect more perfect. Bangzi is a bamboo percussion instrument with no fixed pitch. It is called "Bangzi" in the north and "Nanbangzi" or "Fangbangzi" in the south. The bangzi used in northern operas is solid, which is called "Bangzi" for short. Southern bangzi is divided into three types: large, medium and small, and is made of rectangular hollow wood blocks. When playing, hang it on the bracket and play it with a drum stick. Because you can strike the sound continuously and quickly, it is easy to create a warm and tense atmosphere. Because the bangzi is used to beat the beat, it produces the "bangzi cavity". Bangzi Opera, also known as Shaanxi Opera or Western Shaanxi Opera, originated in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Gansu, and/kloc-slowly spread to Guangdong in the early 7th century (early Qing Dynasty). Bangzi cavity is divided into head board, adagio, middle board, knurled board, sigh board and brake board. Wooden fish also belongs to bamboo percussion instruments, and has no fixed pitch. It is shaped like a fish head, hollowed out in the middle into a resonance box, with a long fish mouth on the front and a mallet in hand to make sound. Muyu was originally a Buddhist musical instrument and an accompaniment instrument for religious music, and was gradually adopted by folk instrumental music. Wooden fish is hollow in timbre, short in pronunciation and lively. It often plays an accompaniment role and is used as a beat when counting white olives. In the industry, the band or musician is called the tent surface, and the leader of the gongs and drums is the palm board. Sit on the left side of the stage. The awning should be familiar with gongs and drums to create an atmosphere for the audience. For example: singing mallets, digging mallets ... >>

Question 8: What are the most classic vocals of Cantonese Opera? On the stage of Cantonese opera, there are three troupes: Gusu, Huizhou, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hunan, Shaanxi and Henan. Yiyang, Kunqu, Qin, Huizhou, Han and Qiyang tunes have been spread and popularized. At present, Cantonese opera vocal music has retained the high-pitched tunes such as Banqiang, Xipi and Furong, Kunqu opera brands and a large number of ditties imported from other provinces, such as Jade Beauty, Cut Flowers, Dressing Table, selling groceries, Eight Bantou and Miss Wang's Fortune-telling. In Banqiang Opera, professional operas such as Papaya Opera, Pagoda Sacrifice Opera, Huilongguan Opera, Jiaozi Opera, Wuer Jiagui Opera, Cave-making Opera and Maizi Opera were successively created, and temple music (Sanskrit) was absorbed, thus enriching the accents of Fan Yi and ice cloud. Among them, Huang Er has the most abundant cavity, including cross, eight-character, long sentence, half, dripping beads, flowing water (second-rate), and inverted music.

Question 9: Cantonese opera is characterized by 20 characters. . . . . . . The lyrics of Cantonese opera are easy to understand. Musically, folk songs are interspersed in the singing of "Bang Huang", and the singing method is changed from "falsetto" to "flat throat" (true voice). After repeated practice, they are all sung in Guangzhou dialect.

Question 10: What are the characteristics of Cantonese opera in Guangdong? 40 minutes, hello, landlord.

Cantonese opera belongs to the traditional programs of southern folk. It is highly recognized in South Guangdong. These characteristics are summarized as follows:

The aria is mainly composed of Bangzi and Huanger's banqiang, supplemented by Qupai. At the same time, Guangdong folk accents such as Nanyin, Cantonese, Muyu, Dragon Boat and Banyan were retained.

The stage art style of Cantonese opera is almost freehand brushwork. The scene is simple, and the specified situation in the play is mainly displayed through virtual performance programs.

The repertoire of Cantonese opera is mostly Shengdan opera, which emphasizes singing and ignores doing, and literati drama is more than martial arts. Wushu is based on "Southern School Wushu", including powerful target, hand bridge, Shaolin boxing, difficult chair skill, high platform skill and so on.

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