Cantonese opera
Cantonese opera is a popular form of traditional Chinese opera in which a variety of musical instruments are often used to create atmosphere, express emotion, and enhance artistic expression. The following are the commonly used musical instruments in Cantonese opera:
The musical instruments used in the early days of Cantonese opera included the two-string, violin, yueqin, flute, sanxian, gong, cymbal and drum board, which were relatively simple in tone.
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 the guzheng, pipa and butterfly qinGongs and drums include fish plates, sand, double-skin drums, cymbals, Beijing gongs, hook gongs, war drums, big wooden fish, small wooden fish, big gongs and cymbals, lobby drums, etc.
After the reform of Cantonese opera, a variety of Western musical instruments such as saxophone and violin were adopted, which made the ** effect more perfect.
In addition, Cantonese opera also uses bangzi and wooden fish. Bangzi belongs to the bamboo and wood percussion instrument without a fixed pitch, which is called "Bangzi" in the north and "Nanbangzi" in the south, also known as "Fang Bangzi". The bangzi used in northern opera is solid, or "bangzi" for short, and it is composed of two hard wooden sticks, which are struck by each hand to make a sound. The southern bangzi are large, medium and small, and are made of rectangular hollow wooden blocks, which are hung on a stand and played with a drum stick. Because the bangzi is used to hit the beat, the "bangzi cavity" is created.
The above are the commonly used musical instruments in Cantonese opera, and the use of these instruments not only adds artistic charm to Cantonese opera, but also demonstrates the richness and breadth and profundity of Chinese tradition.