A Study On The Musical Characteristics And Singing Art Of "Phoenix Seeking The Phoenix"

Phoenix seeks the Phoenix is an ancient poetry art song composed by li Yan,a contemporary young composer.The lyrics are taken from sima Xiangru,a famous writer of the Western Han Dynasty.It is quite representative of modern and contemporary Chinese ancient poetry art songs.This work is a single two-part musical form with original form repeated,its musical form structure is simple and orderly.In the method of rotation,the combination of progressive and jump and other techniques are used.The accompaniment texture mostly adopts the combination of decomposition chord and column chord.The overall speed of this song is relatively slow,and the beginning word of each phrase is on the beat,so when singing,we should make full use of the strength of our waist and abdomen,and rub the breath in the waist rhythmically along with the song rhythm.When singing,we should pay attention to the articulation of the tone auxiliary word "xi",and gently touch the tip of the tongue against the gum,so that the airflow breaks through the obstruction from the gap between the tongue and the mouth cover,and the friction becomes sound.In addition,special attention should be paid to the articulation of the final ang,and a should be taken as the main vowel to maximize the extension of the a sound and make full use of the nasopharyngeal resonance.The emotional expression of the song should pay attention to the control of singing speed,role change and cavity adjustment,which not only expresses the love for the beloved at first sight,but also expresses the longing to invite the lover to grow old together,accompanied by the fear of being rejected by the lover.Stage performance should pay attention to control the pace,gestures,eyes,body movements with emotional expression,in the stage performance to do both god,implicit natural,generous and decent.