陕北民歌

Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs

天下黃河

The Great Yellow River

（男声领唱·合唱）

附记

《天下黄河》原名《船夫调》,是《中国民间歌曲集成·陕西卷》开卷之曲，为陕北佳县荷叶坪黄河船夫李思命自编自唱。1920年春节闹秧歌时，李思命与村民张士铭以对唱形式表演《扳水船》，即兴唱出“天下黄河几十几道湾”的船夫调，成为这首民歌的发祥之声，1942年经延安鲁艺音乐家记录整理而广泛传唱。新编金曲在保留母本精髓的基础上，汲取民间诸家歌手演唱版本之长，对音乐形态进行升华，赋予其新的艺术蕴涵。

The Great Yellow River, originally known as the Tune of the Boatmen, is a song created by a boatman named Li Siming from a county of Shaanxi Province, who worked on the Yellow River. In the celebration of Spring Festival in 1920, Li and one of his countrymen Zhang Shiming improvised this tune in an antiphonal form, beginning with the words “Do you know how the Yellow River meanders?” It was notated in a relatively fixed form in 1942, which contributed to its increased popularity. This song was also placed at the beginning of the Shaanxi volume of CollectionsofChineseFolkSongs. The arrangement in this anthology, based on the original melody, absorbs desirable characteristics of various earlier oral versions, expands its form and endows it with new artistic quality.