《茉莉花》曲新探

A New Study of the Song Moo-Lee-Chwa

《茉莉花》是一首具有世界影響的民歌,最初源於[花鼓曲]“好一朵鮮花”套數。從《綴白裘》《十出奇》《百戲竹枝詞》等史料記載來看,[花鼓曲]“好一朵鮮花”套數在乾隆年間廣泛流行。晚清時期,套數前兩支曲子逐漸獨立成[鮮花調];民國時期“好一朵茉莉花”獨立成曲。新中國成立後,[鮮花調]中“好一朵茉莉花”曲經何仿加工創作,成爲家喻户曉的名曲《茉莉花》。

Moo-Lee-Chwa,a song with worldwide influence,originally comes from“what a beautiful flower”sets of Flower Drum Song.From historical records such as Augmented White Fur,Ten Miracles,Hundred Opera Bamboo Poetry,we can confirm that“what a beautiful flower”sets of Flower Drum Song was very popular in Qianlong s period of the Qing Dynasty.The first two songs of these sets slowly developed into Flower Tune in the late Qing Dynasty,and“what a beautiful jasmine”became an independent song in the period of the Republic of China.After the founding of the People s Republic of China,“what a beautiful jasmine”of Flower Tune became the well-known song Moo-Lee-Chwa by He Fang s creation.