"A Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is the most comprehensive song in the suona repertoire. For the player, this song should not only use the unique skills of suona, such as spitting, sliding, tongue, finger painting and vibrato, but also use the skills of swallowing, spitting, padding, beating, rubbing and pressing, as well as the difficult skills of punching tongue, punching air, rebounding, anti-Shuang Tu, Legato, air-lip vibrato and finger-air vibrato.
The theme of this work is to depict the joy and liveliness of birds and show the vibrant scene in nature. It imitates different kinds of birds such as oriole, cuckoo and swallow through various sounds, movements and expressions, and vividly shows their singing and flying characteristics. This Quyi work is full of vitality and cheerful atmosphere, showing the beauty and diversity of nature.
A Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix is not only a suona song, but also an adaptation of guzheng, accordion and piano music. In 1970s, Wang Jianzhong, a famous composer in China, wrote a piano solo of the same name based on "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix". On the basis of retaining the characteristics of the original suona music, Wang Jianzhong combined the aesthetic methods and creative techniques of western music, adjusted the melody and paragraph structure of the original music to suit the piano playing techniques, and added national harmony.
The author of "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix"
Wei Ziyou (1 ~ 1936), a native of Suiping, Zhumadian, Henan Province, is a famous modern guzheng player and educator in China. I have loved music since I was a child, and I am proficient in piano, guzheng, pipa and shengguan, especially the thirteen-string guzheng. It has played a key role in the development and continuation of modern guzheng in China.
2. Concentrate on creation:1In the summer of 925, Wei Ziying resigned from his post in Beijing and returned to Suiping. The Ruhe levee is full of kites, sparkling sand and rippling river water. The first draft of "The Melody of Fishing Boat Singing Late" was thus produced. In the autumn of the same year, I took my family to live in Beijing and majored in Zheng art in a charity "Moral Society".
3. There are peaches and plums all over the world: Wei Ziyou is not only a master of modern guzheng in China, but also a knowledge-based folk musician and guzheng educator. It has played a key role in the development and continuation of modern China Guzheng and contributed to the cross-regional spread of Henan Guzheng. Wei Ziyou has many famous disciples, most of whom are important figures in the history of modern Zheng music in China. For example, Lou Shuhua, Liang Zaiping and another disciple, Cao Zheng.