Appreciation of Spring Festival Overture

The Spring Festival Overture is the first movement of the Spring Festival Suite, an orchestral work written by the famous Chinese composer Mr. Li Huanzhi in 1956. This set of works is based on the author's life experience and feelings when he spent the Spring Festival in Yan 'an in his early years. Through music, Mr. Li Huanzhi showed the people in the revolutionary base areas the scene of warm jubilation and the moving picture of unity, friendship and celebration during the Spring Festival.

People's love for this cheerful and passionate song is absolutely unprecedented in the history of China's symphonic works. 1989, "Spring Festival Overture" won the "Golden Record Award" of China Record Corporation; 1June, 1993, the Spring Festival Suite and other works were selected as "China Music Classics of the 20th Century", showing its charm.

The whole song is divided into four movements: the first movement "Overture" is a general description of the warm and cheerful yangko dance, including the sound of gongs and drums, singing, the dancing of yangko players, the dexterous scene of wearing flowers, and the scene of chorus. The second movement "Love Song", like a lyric poem, is an episode in the Spring Festival. Music began to be introduced from the British pipe, bringing out the theme of love songs in northern Shaanxi, like young men and women walking and talking by the Yanhe River with moonlight like water. The third movement "Song of the Disc" is a Rondo-style waltz.

The author regards the first theme as the theme of people's unity and friendship in festivals, and there are two sub-themes. The tones of these three parts are all evolved from different dominant Yangko tunes in northern Shaanxi. Sometimes they are like the confidences of friends, and sometimes they are like the humor of old people and young people. Here, according to the actual situation of Yan 'an weekend dance, the author combined folk music with modern social dance music and deliberately wrote this waltz with national style. The fourth movement, Lantern Festival, is a trilogy.

The main part is the tone of the northern Shaanxi folk queue music suona, which is magnificent and syntactically coherent. It embodies the superb skills of suona artists in northern Shaanxi who keep breathing. Although it is now an orchestra, it still retains this continuous feature. The idea of all the suites has the characteristics of dance image, which is closely related to the customs and mood of traditional festivals, and at the same time, it is a description of new festival scenes.

The orchestral Spring Festival Suite focuses on the lively scenes of China people celebrating the Spring Festival, and often plays the first movement of the suite, namely the Spring Festival Overture.