Characteristics of Yueyang Ancient Painting Opera

Yueyang ancient painting plays have distinctive features in repertoire, music and performing arts. Especially the vocal cavity is the most distinctive.

The main voice of Yueyang Opera is the "Qin Opera" in Yueyang Opera. On the basis of retaining the basic characteristics of Liang Shantiao, the "Qin Opera" organically integrates with the languages, folk songs and folk music in the northeast of Hunan, and develops into a distinctive vocal tune deeply loved by people in the surrounding areas of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi. In the plate structure, the "Qin cavity" not only maintains the basic form of single sentence and sandwiched sentence, but also develops into "two and a half plates", "tight plate" similar to Allegro, "guide plate" with double sad heads and single sad heads, and the end and end of the pointed cavity are enlarged. Therefore, new rhythm levels and new plate changes have been added. Therefore, it is unique in Hunan ancient painting and drama system. The tune (single sentence) played by violin is longer than narrative and lyric, and it is the most used tune. In its structure, there are two forms: repetition and inheritance. It is a temporary tone change according to the lyrics and structure when singing in pentatonic palace mode. This kind of singing is called "lack of rhyme" by artists, and it has distinct personality characteristics in xiang opera system. Due to the flexibility of orthography (single sentence) board and the diversity of singing methods, funeral tune, dream tune, stack tune and one-word tune were later derived. Yueyang ancient painting drama "West Lake Tune (Attached Sentence)" is a narrative song. Although the sentence structure and mode are the same as the West Lake tune in Changsha ancient painting drama, the lines are different because of the different skeleton sounds. In addition, different language features, geographical environment and customs are obviously different. Whether it is extensive or not, the singing style even gives people a sense of direct practical effect. The sad head guide in violin performance can be divided into double sad heads and single sad heads, which are mostly used to express grief-stricken emotions, so it is called sad tone. Suona, accompanied by titled gongs and drums, is often used to change the atmosphere, or as a transitional form from orthodox tune to funeral tune and dream tune, one-word tune and stack tune. The most striking feature is that the male voice "has a high ending and a closed cavity", so it has strong dramatic characteristics. "Lock Fight" is the ending form of singing in Tongcheng ancient painting drama, and the tunes in Tongcheng ancient painting drama "Qin Opera" are basically in the form of "lock fight". It's a suona tune, with gongs and drums ending the aria. The last three words ending in "Lock Fight" need not be sung in suona bag, which is one of the characteristics of "Qin Opera" in Tongcheng Opera. According to the needs of the plot and the characteristics of the characters, "lock bucket" can be divided into full bucket and half bucket. [3] The singing methods of Yueyang ancient paintings are: low voice (falsetto), original voice (true voice), children's voice (half voice) and cold voice (explosive voice). Zheng Dan, Hua Dan and Ghost Mendan all sang in a low voice; Clowns and women sing with their own voices; Milk is sung in children's voices; Xiao Sheng sings in a local voice, and the small voice ends; The old students sang in the local voice, with a small transition and a cold ending.