Overview
Chinese Name: 梅花三弄
English Name: The plum blossom melody play three times, Mei Hua San Nong
The plum blossom melody play three times，梅花三弄Mei Hua San Nong，It is also known as “plum blossom introduction”, “plum blossom melody” and “jade concubine introduction”. It is an ancient Qin music. Its history can be traced back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At first, it may be a flute music or Xiao music, but now there are only ancient Qin scores. The earliest existing ancient Qin score of “plum blossom three lane” can be found in “magic secret score”. It uses positive tuning. Through the white fragrance and cold resistance of plum blossoms, the music expresses its feelings and praises people with noble integrity. The whole song consists of 10 paragraphs. Because the theme is played three times on the overtones of different emblem positions of the piano (played in the upper, middle and lower parts), it is called “Sannong”.
Story of The plum blossom melody play three times
The music score of the Mei Hua San Nong, which has been handed down to today, can be summarized into two types: the old and the new. The former is natural and unrestrained, which was passed down to the Qing Dynasty in ancient times; The latter has a more stable rhythm, which began in the reign of Emperor Qianlong – the ” plum blossom melody play three times” we often hear on TV is the “new” version.
Under the new and old versions, there are actually more than 40 kinds of actual music scores of The plum blossom melody play three times. The reason is that the traditional piano music is often produced by the composer himself to develop and process the original music according to his cultural background, characteristics of the times and genre style, so as to “recreate” a new spectrum. ” The plum blossom melody play three times ” is such a song that has always attracted musicians for more than 500 years.