Yang Chunxia sang "Cuckoo Mountain" and "Chaotic Clouds Flying" and other singing voices by the music creator and the actors

The core singing voice that shapes the musical image of Ke Xiang in the modern Peking Opera drama "Cuckoo Mountain" is "Chaotic Cloud Flying", which is the largest and most wide-ranging and passionate singing voice in Ke Xiang's singing segment.

Yang Chunxia's singing words are careful and eloquent, and they are very penetrating and directly hit the audience's heart.

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Teacher Yu, who was a member of the Cultural Group of the State Council at the time, created and designed this singing cavity not only maintained the traditional singing cavity charm of Peking Opera, but also created and designed a new sound cavity, using new vocal cavity creation and design techniques, and integrating the old vocal cavity of Peking Opera and the flower face pure cavity yu dan cavity.

This singing cavity has a large range of voices, many treble areas, complex and changeable rhythms and plates, and has now been selected by the graduate tutors of the Conservatory of Music as the national sopranos of the advanced stage of vocal music graduate students to study and sing etudes.

Peking Opera modern drama "Cuckoo Mountain" even the recitation of white is with a cavity with rhyme, the heroine Ke Xiang's difficult singing voice, even raising her hands and feet are all required to sword and horse skills. So now there are young actors who have starred in Ke Xiang who say that after rehearsing "Cuckoo Mountain", it feels like playing a traditional play.

In 1964, "Cuckoo Mountain" also aroused the interest of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe, and the famous Peking Opera performing artists Qiu Shengrong and Zhao Yanxia took the lead in the expedition and grandly launched the "Cuckoo Mountain" of Jingdan. Ma Lianliang, one of the "Four Great Su Shengs", played the role of "Zheng Laowan" in the play, supporting red flowers with green leaves, which shows that its lineup is strong.

In 1964, the first national Peking Opera Modern Opera Observation and Performance Conference was held in Beijing, and Li Mingsheng and Li Lifangshengdan, who had experienced military experience, performed "Cuckoo Mountain" compared with "Cuckoo Mountain" in Beijing Jingdan, which was a strong and simple wind, and was more praised.

Premier Zhou Enlai watched the performance of the Ningxia Peking Opera Troupe and spoke highly of it. Shortly after the performance, the Ministry of Culture instructed the Ningxia Peking Opera Troupe to go to the Changchun Film Studio to bring "Rhododendron Mountain" to the screen. Because the head of the modern Peking Opera drama rushed Li Lifang to Shanghai to star in "Morning in the Harbor" (later renamed "The Harbor"), the Ministry of Culture announced that "filming was suspended".

During the Cultural Revolution, "Cuckoo Mountain" was suspended for a time.

In 1968, Wang Zengqi, the screenwriter of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe's "Sha Jiabang", received instructions to adapt "Duquan Mountain" from the original drama, and the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe adapted "Duquan Mountain" to "Duquan Mountain". "Du Quan Shan" is still starring Qiu Shengrong, who carefully designed the main singing segment, unfortunately this draft was not approved, and Qiu Shengrong has since lost the opportunity to appear on stage.

In 1970, the script in Beijing was finalized. Change the highlight of the flower face net horn Lei Gang to highlight the Danjiao Kexiang, Jinggang Mountain has a rhododendron mountain, restore the title of "Rhododendron Mountain". The selection of actors from all over the country, the other leading actors are basically finalized, but the role of Ke Xiang has been hanging for a long time.

Teacher Yu from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music went to the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe to create and design the "Rhododendron Mountain" singing voice, and selected the 23-year-old Yan Guixiang, who studied the process cavity and Zhang Junqiu's vocal cavity and also worked on Qingyi, Hua Dan and Dao Ma Dan, and tried to sing or modify the singing voice of Ke Xiang, who was designed for him sentence by sentence.

One weekend in May 1971, Yang Chunxia of the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe went home for dinner after performing "The Harbor", when she suddenly received a call from the troupe that she "immediately went to Beijing to report on Monday" and asked her to prepare for leaving Shanghai for a long time. When Yang Chunxia boarded the plane, Teacher Yu, who was then a member of the State Council Cultural Group at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, was already in the cabin, informing her that she had been identified as the star of Ke Xiang in "Rhododendron Mountain". It turned out that Teacher Yu selected Yang Chunxia and Wang Shuyuan, the main creative staff of the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe, and Li Zhongcheng to participate in the creation of "Rhododendron Mountain".

The first sentence of "Cuckoo Mountain" "Chaotic Cloud Flying" [Two Yellow Guide Plates] "Chaotic Clouds Flying Pine Tao Roar", the singer Yu Chunxia asked Yang Chunxia to use the Qingyi Cheng Cavity singing method in the drag cavity to open the mouth shape, so that the tone is thick and deep, and the breath is flexible and restrained.

In the "rushing mountains", the word "rushing" spout came out, and Teacher Yu asked to borrow the spout in the voice cavity of the old student Gao Qingkui, and quickly bit the word head in the biting word to send the word "gushing" out of the end, singing the momentum of the rush.

This kind of line cavity is different from the traditional Qingyi in the bite of the word on the beginning of the word abdomen, first bite the head to keep the word abdomen and end of the word to return the sound.

Immediately downhill [Huilong] Gunfire is urgent, military situation is tight, shoulder pressure is heavy, and the fire is burning (wow), burning my heart!

"Tuan Tuan Blazes My Heart", Teacher Yu designed a flinging cavity based on the vocal cavity of the old students of Peking Opera, enriching the Dan cavity with the characteristics of the sheng cavity, showing the heroic spirit of women's strength and fortitude, so that Yang Chunxia's tone can show the deep sense of Ke Xiang's breathless thoughts.

【Slow Plate】 Mother Du was in danger and was tortured to death, and Captain Lei fell into the tiger's mouth (he) nine deaths. The warriors are anxious to save, the people's hearts are floating, it is difficult to calm down, Wen Qijiu is unusual, pushing the waves, what is the intention?

"Mother Du was in danger and was tortured to death." In the tail cavity of "Mama Du" and "Exhausted", the feminine gentleness of the traditional Mei Cavity Dan horn tail note is sung, singing all kinds of worries about Mama Du.

The four-character design of "poisoned and exhausted" is designed to use the Cheng Cavity singing method to perform the cavity, without breathing at the rest symbol, the sound is constantly cut off, and the performance is choked.

"Captain Lei entered the tiger's mouth and he died nine times in his life", using his breath to control the strength of the voice, and the "mouth" word of "tiger's mouth" suddenly increased sharply after the volume suddenly increased to show a sinister performance.

The volume of "Nine Dead Lives" suddenly weakened, showing that he was worried that Captain Lei had little chance of survival, and the word "sheng" dragged his voice and sang three sighs, sighing with great emotion at Lei Gang's situation.

[Original Plate] (That) The poisonous snake is bold and sinister, and it is necessary to beware of endogenous hidden dangers, and the enemy in the abdomen and back endangers the whole army and endangers the whole army! Faced with victory or defeat, my heart and heart are heavy... Behind the scenes, the female voice (singing in unison) has a heavy heart, looking at the long sky, looking at the long sky, thinking of the five wells.

In addition to integrating into the raw cavity, this singing cavity creation design also integrates the vocal cavity of the flower face clean cavity. "That poisonous snake bile wields sinister and vicious" uses the pure cavity, suppresses the voice and uses the throat force of the throat, showing hatred for the "poisonous snake bile" to lure Captain Lei down the mountain to save his mother and endanger the entire army of the guerrillas.

"It seems to see the red battle flag in the wanshan bushes", Yang Chunxia's vocal position moved forward, adjusting the timbre, and the row cavity was wider and brighter.

The dragging cavity of "Heaven and Earth Ming" and the singing cavity design of the Dan cavity borrow the net cavity mouth shape to open horizontally to increase the resonance of the mouth, so that the tone is fuller and more open and bright, showing the firm belief in the victory of the armed struggle led by Member Mao.

The four-character tone of "Top Gun" is high and wide. Teacher Yu asked Yang Chunxia to use the dantian qi to plant "zhuangzhi" in the chest cavity, and the "cloud" character of "Lingyun" used the power of the horizontal diaphragm to make the breath full, strong, full, loud and transparent, and to express the pride and ambition of calmly and calmly deciding to win the opportunity.

After repeated auditions in the process of teacher's creative design and revision, Yang Chunxia was transferred to the crew of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe "Cuckoo Mountain" in 1973, starring Ke Xiang, the heroine of the modern Peking Opera drama "Cuckoo Mountain".

In 1974, the modern Peking Opera drama "Cuckoo Mountain" was filmed and released nationwide.

Now the Peking Opera Qingyi actors, relying on traditional oral teaching or watching videos to learn drama according to hulu painting scoops, it is difficult to compare with Yang Chunxia's film shooting when she has the main creative staff and film director on-site guidance, and after shooting one shot after another, she selects the best editing to retain the synthesized singing. Some people love to take live singing to compare model drama movies, but the movie is a shot a shot a sentence a musical sentence after shooting the recording of the best lens image and the best musical sentence synthesis, that is, the actor of the model play himself live singing in any case can not reach the level of the best recording equipment in the country in the movie that year, there is no comparison between the two kinds of singing.