The scene of the symphony performance of "Jingle Caprice".
Symphony manuscript of Jingle Caprice.
Wenzhou Net News ""Ding Ding Dong Caprice" single book was officially published in December!"The composer of the "Jingle Caprice" symphony.
1. When Chen Yong, deputy director of the Wenzhou Cultural Center, was interviewed by reporters, as soon as he looked down and saw the news, he raised his head and waved his hand to draw a circle, with a sweet smile on his face.
As Wenzhou's first new book of symphonic singles to be officially published and released, "Ding Ding Dong Caprice" has been premiered by the Wenzhou University Symphony Orchestra at the Wenzhou Grand Theater in November. As a 2022 Wenzhou Culture and Art Development Funding Project, the song was composed by Chen Yong and his student Chen Shuaike, using Western methods to give Wenzhou folk songs a new vitality on the symphony stage. In the name of Wenzhou folk songs, according to Wenzhou folk songs as the road, bring surprises to Wenzhou, bring Wenzhou symphony.
8-minute show
The work is constantly seeking new ones
"Ding Ding Dong" is one of the folk songs of Wenzhou, carrying the memories of generations of Wenzhou people. The "Jingle Caprice" symphony has a total duration of 8 minutes, using the traditional Western sonata form, presented in the form of 2 themes + 4 condensed movements. Two themes, the first theme comes from the folk song "Ding Ding Dong", which depicts the style and cultural landscape of the ancient city of Wenzhou, and the second theme comes from the folk song "To the Birds", which shows the foothills of Yandang Mountain, the glory of thousands of trees, and the picture of a hundred birds and songs, reflecting the love of the people in Wenzhou for nature and the pursuit of a better life. Four condensed movements, connected by contrasts of speed and mood, the first is fire, the second is water, the third is wind, and the fourth is light.
When the familiar and innovative melody of "Ding Ding Dong" and "Pair of Birds" sounded, sometimes colliding and sometimes resonating, allowing the audience to revisit the classics and establishing the unique empathy and resonance of Wenzhou people.
After listening to it, many audiences feel that there are too many "unexpected" in "Ding Ding Dong Caprice", the combination of native national elements and modern orchestral music creation techniques, through the multi-part vocabulary of the symphonic suite and innovative thinking, it not only outlines the symphonic sound and painting of Wenzhou's humanistic features, but also builds a bridge between the folk ** national and the world.
10 years of hard work
From two books to a symphony
This kind of "empathy and resonance" is Chen Yong's motivation and desire to pay attention to his heart for many years, and he has thoroughly understood the characteristics of Wenzhou folk songs, and through the accumulation of bits and pieces, he has burst out ten years later.
In 2013, Chen Yong, who is engaged in piano teaching, and Lou Shaojie compiled "Selected Piano Songs of Southern Zhejiang", the first piano teaching book related to Zhejiang folk songs. Let the children learn folk songs when they learn the piano, and they will not feel bored when they play. During the compilation process, Chen Yong found that many folk songs were difficult to pass down and were not preserved due to different pronunciations. So, he used piano music to present the folk songs, which changed the disadvantages of the folk songs at that time due to the use of simple notation, lack of harmony, and lack of color.
As soon as this book was published, it attracted the attention of many readers, and they related to the details of folk songs and folklore in Chen Yong**'s book. Chen Yong felt that many Wenzhou folk song stories and Wenzhou stories that were "soiled" to the end could still be "elaborated". He visited Wenzhou folk customs experts and cultural and historical experts many times, listened to them tell the story of Wenzhou folk songs, and invited him to co-compile "Wenzhou Folk Songs in Pictures" with Li Tingting in 2018, which skillfully combined folk songs with Wenzhou cultural and historical stories. Many parents who like ** feedback, this book has become a favorite book for children to enhance their literacy, while absorbing the nutrition in the book, while playing the piano, it also "played" the "inheritance sound" of Wenzhou folk songs.
Because of the compilation of two books, Chen Yong began to think deeply about how to promote Wenzhou folk songs to the world, and finally found that the most clever way was to compose symphonies.
2 years of joint creation
Teachers and students asked questions again and again on the way to creation
In 2021, after Chen Yong had the idea of composing the symphony of "Ding Ding Dong Caprice" and publishing a single book, he immediately told Chen Shuaike, a graduate student of composition at Shanghai ** University. Chen Shuaike, who was a student of Chen Yong, didn't think about it, and immediately embarked on a symphony creation journey with him. At the beginning of the creation, the teachers and students were full of confidence and felt that they knew the folk song "Ding Ding Dong" very well, and they could easily handle the creation. However, the first draft was taken out and rejected by Shanghai ** Publishing House because it was not creative. They were stunned for a moment, and put a question mark over and over again when storing the ** file name.
A series of question marks of the first file name, is our creative road to ask again and again, because it is difficult to create a symphony, with the form of symphony to tell the story of Wenzhou, show the spirit of Wenzhou, and promote Wenzhou culture is even more difficult, to have the awe of art, the love of the hometown, but also to strive for professional innovation. Chen Yong mentioned that the road of creation is busy pursuing how to "bring out the new" and how to make the traditional Wenzhou folk songs become vibrant and have a sense of the times.
There is joy in busyness. The teachers and students listened to the advice of Professor Zhao Guang of Shanghai ** University and many Wenzhou ** experts, and tried new performance techniques, timbre and ** language in their creation, expanding the expressiveness and innovation of the symphony, such as adding a variety of percussion instruments such as snare drums, breaking stable harmonies, and adding syncopated and dotted notes. The addition of these details saw the creator's skills, and also made the work "burn", and immediately had a full **mood and **running speed**.
Look and do it and take it easy. Chen Yong clearly remembers that on October 29, 2023, he wrote in the circle of friends: "Start a school, victory is in sight." In December, when the single book "Ding Ding Dong Caprice" was officially published, he told reporters his biggest wish: he hoped that the Wenzhou University Symphony Orchestra and more well-known domestic symphony orchestras could continue to take this work to the national and even the world's leading stage, and continue to blow a strong "Wenzhou folk song style".
*: Wenzhou Evening News
Original title: When "Jingle Bell" meets "The Bird", what kind of caprice will it be?
Reporter: Xiao Yuwen.
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