2019-10-04 19:14·Sihe Shuji Huang Zhan, together with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, and Cai Lan"Hong Kong's four talents", his pen has countless masterpieces, "The Love of the Year", "Shanghai Beach", "A Laugh in the Sea", "Under the Lion Rock", "My Chinese Heart", "Men Should Be Self-Improvement"...It can be said that as long as you have watched Hong Kong movies and TV series of that era, a period of national-level classics, the ** sounds, which excites your heart, it is Huang Zhan who is poking you.
Master Huang, who is humorous by nature, is extremely funny.
Let's not talk about ours today"Huang Buwen", Master Huang Zhan, this is not just a few words.
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Let's talk about one of his masterpieces, "A Laugh in the Sea", which seems simple but by no means simple
Old Xu's grievances.
Mr. Huang Zhan wrote the lyrics and composed the theme song for Tsui Hark's film version of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".
It is not easy to return six drafts in a row, and at first the six drafts were all returned by Xu Laowei for revision.
Meditate, toss and turn.
How to write a song about the gathering of three masters, the two golden basins wash their hands, and they are not afraid of good and evil, and they are proud of the spirit of the rivers and lakes.
Thinking about it, there are only two possibilities for a master to play this song:
First, it is extremely profound. If you don't have a very high level of kung fu, you can't play it at all.
First, it is extremely simple and easy, such as a children's rhyme that is catchy. But the master's performance, transcendent and holy, is like heaven.
Between difficulty and ease, how to choose, and in the boredom of checking the ancient books, finally in the "Le Zhi"."It's easy"Four words, suddenly enlightened! It is exactly what you want in your heart, and what is the easiest? Palace, business, horn, sign, feather. The simplest ** must be composed of the simplest notes, so the positive pentatonic and anti-pentatonic notes are cleverly combined to get "A Laugh in the Sea", a swan song.
At this time, Huang Zhan was almost driven crazy by Tsui Hark, and his temper came up to write and make songs, that"Huang Buwen"It's Huang Zhan, a big male *** side note on the score:"Tsui Hark, if you want it, don't ask another Gao Ming. "A pair of fish dead net broken posture. Fortunately, it is also inevitable, it must be the hardness of this divine pen, no one can beat it, there will be no next draft, this draft has become a classic.
Tsui Hark and Huang Zhan, who fell in love and killed each other.
IIAnd to say it's simple, why it's simple,1 tone: only the palace merchant horn is used, the five tones, the positive five tones and the reverse five tones.
So what is a pentatonic tone?
The five tones are palace, business, horn, sign, and feather.
It was first seen in the Spring and Autumn Period, the fifty-eighth chapter of "Pipe and Groundworker".
"Whoever listens to the signs, is like a pig, and is appalled. Whoever listens to the feather is like a horse in the wild. Whoever listens to the palace is like a cow chirping. Whoever listens to business is like a sheep from the flock. Whoever listens to the horn, such as a pheasant climbing the wood to sing, the sound is clear. Where will be the head of the five tones, the first one and three, four open to close the ninety-nine, to be the head of the yellow Zhong Xiaosu, in order to become a palace. Three points and one benefit, eight out of a hundred, for the sign. There are no three points and go to its multiplication, sufficient, to be a businessman. There are three points, and the compound is in its place, so as to become a feather. There are three points, go to its multiplication, sufficient, to be at an angle. "To put it simply, 1) is to make an empty string the full length and make it"Palace"Sound;
2) Divide the full length of the official sound into thirds, and then increase one-third of the total length to obtain a pure fourth below the palace sound"signs"Sound;
3) Divide the chord length of the sign into three equal parts, and subtract one of them to obtain it"quotient"Sound;
4) Divide the chord length of the Shang sound into thirds, plus one-third of the total length of the Shang sound"Feathers"Sound;
5) Divide the length of the feather note into three equal parts, and subtract one of them to obtain it"Corners"Sound;
Do you see?
Used in ancient times"Three-point profit and loss method"The height of the length of each note is calculated with exquisite mathematical proportions, and the difference is only added or subtracted by one-third, and the basic scale of Chinese ancient music is summarized.
At first glance, it still sounds a little confused, by analogy, compared with the Western seven tones that we are now familiar with, there are two fewer tones, which is roughly equivalent to do, re, mi, sol, and la less semitone ascending"fa"with"si"。The simple Gong Shang Jiao Zheng Yu, going against the grain, Yu Zheng Jiao Shang Palace, is as simple as Dolai Mifa Solo Laxi Do, but only uses five tones, but such a simple note sequence and clever arrangement of rhythm, only Mr. Huang Zhan can write such works.
2.Words: Less, but full of charm.
Sometimes simple is the most difficult, because the song is shallow, there is not much space left to fill in, and how to restore a heroic martial arts world in a limited space, it seems to be a few sentences, fill in the precise words in the few positions, and it must be easy to understand, one word"Difficult", really only by understanding the culture of the ancestors can you fill in such words.
And another wonderful thing about this song is that if we understand Cantonese songs, we will know that the sound of Chinese and Cantonese is different, so Cantonese songs do Chinese version, we have to refill the words, such as eason's "Love Transfer" is the Chinese version, "Under Mount Fuji" is the Cantonese version, although the song is the same, but the words are completely different, and the feelings and interpretations are not the same.
The great thing about this song is that the words remain the same, and Cantonese and Chinese are equally tonal, but they are equally good. It's almost impossible to find a second song in this form, and that's where it's hard and amazing.
A few words, such as five words and seven words, just a few sentences, it outlines a picture scroll, some people laugh and say, Huang Zhan wrote a lyric, Jin Yong's million-word "Smiling Proud Jianghu".
The famous lyricist Lin Xi once commented on this senior:"Writing words in Chinese is like a tightrope, and if you are not careful, you will fall on one side. Only by studying the Five Classics can you appreciate it.
Huang Zhan once said: When I wrote "A Laugh in the Sea", I was in my forties, and I wrote very vicissitudes. I've always had a bit of a sense of vicissitudes in my heart, and I've felt this way since I was a child. I am the head of an old man, the heart of a teenager, and the body of an older man, very bad, very miserable. It may be that I read Chinese and read too many ancient books. The late Su Shi also had this sense of vicissitudes, and Li Bai also had it. There is always this taste, that is, the vicissitudes of life that have not changed and the heroes have been exhausted.
Su Shi "Nian Nujiao Chibi Nostalgia" goes to the east of the big river, the waves are exhausted, and the eternal romantic characters. It turns out that heroes cherish heroes can cross time and space.
This is not exactly the rivers and lakes.
If you are wise, you are not lucky, and if you are clumsy.
3. The simpler and catchier a song, the higher the popularity. And the various versions of "A Laugh in the Sea" are famous and unknown on various ** platforms, no less than thirty or forty versions, and say these three versions.
One, Huang Zhan version, this version of the old man sings solo, regardless of his singing skills, straight to the point, a pair of broken gongs and ducks have a full voice of vicissitudes, free and unrestrained, smiling at the world, like a ragged old man holding a wine gourd, the sword comes in the wind, and there is a lot of vigor and heroism between the world and the world.
Second, Xu Guanjie's version, more reckless, light and free, less of the vicissitudes of the twilight of the hero after the waves, more like a winner in life, smiling and proud of the rivers and lakes Ling Hu Chong, there are also some shadows of Zhang Wuji, the hero retreats, forgets the rivers and lakes, and settles with his lover in the mountains and forests, and goes by boat, more is ideal, is romantic.
Three, Huang Zhan, Tsui Hark, Luo Dayou version, these three masters in their respective fields get together, like a very realistic smile and proud of the rivers and lakes, speaking of which there is a joke, Huang Zhan ** Luo Dayou, the two of them called Tsui Hark to record a total of one version, and the result was a collective drink before the recording! I could smell the smell of wine through the headphones, and in the end, I sang and laughed wildly, and I wanted to re-record it after sobering up, but Huang Zhan stopped it with his hand, and he didn't let him live or die:"I want this version, this version is the best! Three or two confidants, a pot of turbid wine, and a happy wine, it is the smile and pride of the rivers and lakes! "
The Huang Zhan version in front is just a broken gong voice, plus two broken gongs, it sounds rough, but it is this pride and happiness, informal, I heard the wanton freedom after going through the rivers and lakes, and I heard the ...... confidant, pathos, and vicissitudesThe breeze smiled, but it was lonely, and there was still a night photo left of pride. The people are laughing, no longer lonely, and the pride is still smiling and laughing!
The old man chatted about the madness of the teenager and laughed proudly!
I want to mention here that the latest and most amazing version I heard, the GAI version, has added new elements and rap, and there are more market gas, fireworks, and recklessness, which are also free and easy, and may have a strong Sichuan flavor, bringing reckless heroes from the mountains and forests. This kind of courage is rare now, and it has its own world.
But the height of the original work is there, and it is strategic. Compared with it, it still has a little less taste, and by analogy, it is probably the vastness of the mountains and the vastness of the world; The difference between the bird's bird and the bird's bird, the thickness of life is different, but it is a rare and refreshing version for many years, and there is a reason why it is so popular, but I have to say that the best one is the melody of the original song, and the style is really high.
Compared with other so-called ancient songs today, it is simply hanging.
The young man doesn't know the taste of sorrow, and he is worried about the new words, which is okay, but he doesn't know"Taste", Some even use the words and imagery that don't know what the meaning is, and find the seemingly gorgeous rhetoric piled up, but there is nothing empty, gold and jade, and even can't stand up to scrutiny, you don't know what the hell it says, I don't know what the hell it says, I don't know what it is, what is less is this thickness, you really know"Ancient"What it is,"Wind"And what? Read more, boy.
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