Situ Mengyan Model" Situ Mengyan has not left behind his beloved music. In addition to serving as a professor of the European string section of the Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association, he often opens m
Situ Mengyan Model" Situ Mengyan has not left behind his beloved music. In addition to serving as a professor of the European string section of the Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association, he often opens music salons at home to exchange music theory experiences with people in the Chinese and foreign music circles. Around 192 , he got acquainted with Lu Wencheng, Yin Zizhong, He Dasha and others who later became Guangle masters. Lu Wencheng and others all studied violin with Situ Mengyan. Situ Mengyan believed that the timbre of the violin was suitable for expressing the beauty and lightness of "Guangdong music". He was the first to apply the violin to the performance of "Guangdong music" and record it. He also experimented and developed with Lu Wencheng, changing the silk strings of the erhu to steel strings, and changing the erhu holding the violin to two legs. Later, he also successfully made the Gaohu, adding a high-pitched and bright lead instrument to "Guangdong music". Yang Baozhongshan, a famous Peking opera violinist, also benefited from Situ Mengyan's guidance when he applied violin techniques to Peking opera. In order to introduce Chinese music to foreign countries, Situ Mengyan translated the Cantonese opera "Swallow Tower", the Peking opera "The Goddess Scattering Flowers", the instrumental music "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", "Thunder in the Dry Sky", etc. from Gongchi music into five-line notation; In order to introduce foreign music to China, he translated Schumann's "Fantasia", the black folk song "Old Negro", the Irish folk song "The Last Rose", etc. from staff notation to Gongchi notation. Such translations have reached thousands of times. He completely transplanted the melody of Cantonese music to the violin and used the Western violin as a tool to play Cantonese music. "Southern music style is completely Cantonese", basically abandoning Western composition techniques and the original traditional violin playing techniques, causing the violin in "Guangdong music" to lose the Western musical cultural connotation it originally had when it was introduced. The violin It has completely entered the matrix of traditional Chinese music culture, assumed the role of a "national musical instrument", and formed unique cultural characteristics in terms of its musical form, concept and performance behavior. It is called "Situ Mengyan" in the history of music. Model. Mr. and Mrs. Situ Mengyan have seven children, all of whom love music. However, Situ Mengyan initially did not want the children to major in music. He believed that there was no way out and no society in old China to use music as a career. Status. When Situ Mengyan saw that some of his five children studied music, some played the violin and some played the cello, he was very happy because he saw that the children had a sincere heart for music just like him. It was his sixth birthday. Among the children on stage, the eldest, Situ Haicheng, was 24 years old, and the youngest, Situ Zhiwen, was only 14 years old. Situ Zhiwen, the youngest daughter of Situ Mengyan, also carefully collected the programs of these two family concerts. Decades later, every playlist is still as good as new. Situ Mengyan died of illness, but the Situ music family he created is flourishing, and five of his sons are engaged in music. Situ Haicheng was the second violinist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; the third son Situ Xingcheng later went to Taiwan and was an all-around string player and educator (died of illness in Taiwan in 1982). The fourth son Situ Huacheng was a famous violinist and member of the Central Orchestra. Chief violinist and professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. His youngest daughter, Situ Zhiwen, is a famous cellist and president of the Cello Society of the China Music Association. After Situ Mengyan's fourth son Situ Huacheng learned the news, he made a special trip from Shanghai to Tianjin and confirmed that it was his father's autograph. Among those in English is a famous quote from Martin Luther: Whoever excels in the art of regulating everything will be attuned to it. Situ Mengyan studies violin. He learned from the strengths of others and introduced foreign guitars and violins to the "Guangdong Music" band; his solo and accompaniment music has been recorded into records that sell well at home and abroad. Chronology of Situ Mengyan's Major Events Situ Mengyan (1888-1954), formerly known as Situ Fuquan, was a native of Kaiping, Guangdong. Famous shipbuilding expert, violin maker and performer in modern my country. Situ Mengyan learned the violin and began to use the violin in the performance of "Cantonese music"; Situ Mengyan's family held a family concert at Shanghai Lanxin Theater;