Lanzhou drum had artistic exchanges with Beijing octagonal drum in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was also influenced by some factors. However, the form of fork music used in Pingxian was not unrelated to the prosperity and spread of fork music in Beijing in Qing Dynasty.
Tea songs are the main melody melody of octagonal drums and stringed instruments in Qing Dynasty, and they are the beginning and end of musical cards. At the same time, it is also a short art form that can be sung alone. Tea songs flourished during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Although the role of Qinghai Pingxian Opera can be divided into life, Dan, Jing and Ugliness, there is no obvious difference in singing. In performance, words are more important than martial arts, and singing is more important than doing, which is suitable for performing lyric dramas. Traditional repertoire shows mostly absorb Beijing opera and Shaanxi opera programs, while modern drama extracts performances close to reality from life on the basis of traditional performances.
The stage language of Qinghai Pingxian Opera is based on Xining dialect, with soft intonation and smooth and lyrical music melody. Usually, Hua Dan, Clown and Cai Dan all use Xining dialect in small plays reflecting folk life, while Sheng Xing's Daobai, Qingyi and Huahan, on the basis of Xining dialect, absorb the characteristics of Beijing Opera and Shaanxi Opera and strive to develop their own phonology.
Qinghai Pingxian Opera has been enriched and developed in music, creating tight-pulling and slow-singing, overlapping boards and other plates, and further absorbing the aria and miscellaneous cavity of other plates.
Excellent actors, such as the girl and Xu, who plays Tsing Yi, have beautiful costumes and vivid performances, which have shaped the images of Chen Miaochang, White Snake and so on. Zhang, an actress, is good at playing Hua Dan and modern drama. She has a strong flavor of life and devoted her life to vivid expression. Actor Li Yi 'an performed smartly and sang beautifully, and successfully created roles such as Liu Mengmei, Pan Bizheng and Chen Lin.
Qinghai's flat string singing method is based on flat tone, which is the tune of minor scale and is sung in flat tone. After the development of traditional Chinese opera, men and women performed on the same stage. Because there was no difference in singing, they had to adopt the mode of tone sandhi.
Because the male voice is difficult to sing, it sometimes falls to the foot tone, while the female voice rises to the six-character tone, or sings in official voice. Generally, falsetto and original sound are mixed together.
The most distinctive feature of vocal music is accompaniment, which is called plucking. For example, there are backup singers such as Lotus Falls, Flower Arrangement, Taiping Year, Fengyang Songs, Silver Buttons, Buddha Names and Chinese Characters. Some are similar to high-pitched backup singers.
The musical singing of local operas is the main symbol of distinguishing operas. Although Pingxian music has 18 mixed tune as the basic music, on this basis, we should create a whole set of music singing systems such as singing and performance suitable for our own drama according to the performance programs and personality on the drama stage. This is not copying the old pingxian, but putting the art of pingxian sitting and singing on the stage.
According to the requirements of the drama stage and the need to develop the musical vocals of Pingxian Opera, the 18 mixed cavity and 24-tone are developed into a continuum or a banqiang suitable for the performance and singing of Pingxian Opera, and several kinds of bantou and vocals combining the two. Such as flip, phoenix tip, white roll, adagio, original board, allegro, tight beat and slow singing, scattered board, Huayin and so on. Pingxian Opera has a set of basic routines in music singing.
Qinghai Pingxian Opera is a local opera developed from Pingxian Art.. When it was put on the stage, it changed from narrative style to first-person narrator, from solo singing to performing art, which was welcomed and praised by the audience.