It is a popular song on campus.
It's the school song.
What's more, students on campus spontaneously write campus songs.
pop music
The so-called pop music refers to instrumental music and songs with short structure, popular content, lively form and sincere feelings, which are loved by the broad masses, widely sung or appreciated, and are popular for a while or even passed down to future generations. These music and songs are rooted in the fertile soil of public life. Therefore, it is also called "pop music".
Pop music originated from American jazz. At the beginning of the 20th century, a kind of jazz composed of multi-ethnic cultures appeared in America. This new music, with its unique way of playing (singing), refreshed the audience's eyes and ears, caused a sensation in the United States and soon spread all over Western Europe.
Today, pop music contains a wide range of contents. In terms of instrumental music, it includes colorful light music, jazz, swing dance, disco dance, tango dance, waltz, dance music with different styles and music of various operas.
Instrumental works in pop music have the characteristics of lively rhythm, relaxed and lively or lyrical beauty, diverse playing methods, changeable acoustics, rich colors, simple texture level and small band size, and electro-acoustic instruments are mostly used in modern works. The characteristics of vocal music works are: rich flavor of life, lyricism, humor, wide range, popular techniques, smooth tunes and easy singing; Lyrics are often written in the language of life, which is easy to understand and easily accepted and sung by the audience. Singers are mostly their own pop stars, and their vocal methods are different. They are not bound by the vocal school. When singing, their feelings are more important than singing skills, and they are dynamic, free, natural and friendly, which easily resonates with the audience. The strong accompaniment of the small band is integrated with singing. Because pop music has the above characteristics, it can be associated with the public, and it is easy to accept regardless of the level of education.
The beginning of modern music in China-the era of school music and songs.
1902, the Qing court promulgated the school regulations, 1905, and the imperial examination was abolished. Modern education in China began with the establishment of new schools, and music, as a way of aesthetic education, played an important role in the minds of the advanced figures of that era. Mr Cai Yuanpei paid great attention to and supported China's early music education. Ceng Zhi, Li Shutong, Shen Xingong and others have played a vital role in the development of school songs in China.
The appearance of school music songs has historical particularity, which is largely "brought", that is, when there is a lack of modern composers in China, a direct and convenient way is to bring foreign tunes as lyrics. These tunes are mainly from Japan, and some of them are European folk songs imported from Japan, and new words are filled in.
Because the new school song does not need hardware equipment, it is very convenient to promote and has great influence. It has influenced countless teenagers in music culture and music aesthetic concept. Before and after the Revolution of 1911, school music and songs played an ideological role and became a powerful weapon to "unite the people, educate them, attack the enemy and destroy them". Although it is almost impossible for modern music to survive in the vast rural areas of China, in urban villages and towns, wherever modern education is popular, school music and songs will inevitably affect the new generation. When summing up her artistic career in her later years, Wang Kun, an old singer, emphasized that folk music and school songs laid the initial musical foundation for her, which is a vivid example.
1902, under the background of abolishing the imperial examination system and opening new schools, emerging schools opened music courses. Of course, the content of music courses at that time was relatively simple, mainly teaching and singing school songs. The school songs we refer to are the campus songs from the early 20th century to the 1930s. School music songs have been established for nearly a hundred years, which is an enlightenment music movement in the music history of China.
School Song and Enlightenment of New Music
1898 During the Reform Movement of 1898, under the slogan of actively advocating "abolishing imperial examinations" and "promoting schools" to learn western scientific civilization, Kang Youwei, the leader of the "reformists", once advocated setting up "singing music" courses in new schools. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Liang Qichao and other reformists still strongly advocated setting up music and song classes in schools and developing school music education, pointing out that "poetry and music should be one of the elements of spiritual education in order to transform the quality of the people." In some domestic journals, many articles have been published emphasizing the role of music and song lessons in ideological enlightenment. Some intellectuals studying in Japan also organized music societies (Liang Qichao and others founded "Datong Concert"), held "Music Seminar" and taught western music (Shen Xingong, Zhai, etc.). ), and began to promote new music by adding new words to popular tunes in Japan and Europe and America.
1903, the Qing government approved the establishment of music and song classes in new schools. At the same time, various books, periodicals, books, music and new songs came out one after another, which promoted the development of new music and school singing became the new trend of social and cultural life at that time.
The creation of school music songs is mainly to fill in new words on the basis of existing tunes, which are mostly selected from Japanese and European and American tunes. There are few music songs with lyrics written by China's traditional tunes, and even less self-created songs. The lyrics mainly reflect the patriotic thought of Qiang Bing, a rich country, resisting foreign aggression, promoting women's feminist thought of self-improvement and equality between men and women, promoting bourgeois democracy, learning science and civilization, and there are many songs devoted to ideological and knowledge education for children. Early school music and songs were also mixed with loyalty to the monarch and respect for Confucius and narrow nationalism.
The early collection of school music songs mainly includes school music songs compiled by Shen Xingong (1904), educational songs compiled by Zeng Zhizhai (1904), folk songs compiled by Li Shutong (1905) and singing textbooks compiled by Han Xin (1905). Shen Xingong (1870 ~ 1947) and Li Shutong (1880 ~ 1942) are famous music educators engaged in school music and song activities. Shen Xingong was one of the first authors to write music and song textbooks. He wrote six songs, including Yellow River, Lotus Picking Song and Revolution Must Be Respected. Among them, the most influential song is "The Yellow River" (Yang Du Ci) and "Bold and Generous" (a dialogue with Huang himself). Li Shutong edited and published the earliest music magazine in China (1905) as early as during his stay in Japan. Among them, Music of the Motherland Song Song (1905) was very popular at that time. His own lyrics such as Spring Scenery, Farewell and West Lake have long been loved by young students. His three chorus songs "Spring Tour" were the earliest chorus songs with high artistic level at that time.
The widespread spread or real acceptance of western music in China did not depend on the input of missionaries, but on the initiative of people of insight in China to transform China and themselves. Initially, it began through school music and song activities and the corresponding music enlightenment education. This not only gradually introduced western musical instruments and playing methods, notation and basic music theory, but also directly introduced foreign tunes to re-write words. More importantly, the widespread singing of music songs has influenced and changed the traditional musical aesthetic taste and habits from the cultural psychology, resulting in new musical behavior activities, which indicates that the development of China music has entered a new period of cultural transformation.
From a broader social, historical and cultural background, this rather active cultural choice has actually become the beginning of a new cultural change.
The changes in music forms, auditory psychology and appreciation habits, as well as the variation of cultural factors such as music education system and music activities in early music enlightenment education, all mean the end of the ancient stage in the historical development of China music and the beginning of a new historical stage.