如何证明公司资金实力:压韵在英文歌曲中的应用

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凡文字有声音之美,有传神之美,文气文体之美,英语为拼音文字,“音美”

构成其一个突出的审美特征。要说“音美”,那压韵就理应首当其冲了。英语中的压韵虽然和汉语差不多,但是汉语中通常压尾韵,而英语中通常压头韵。所以英语中就有一种修辞方法叫头韵。

     头韵一词源于拉丁语,意思是重复使用同一个字母。作为一种修辞格,指的是在一组词、一句话或一行诗里,在彼此靠近的两个或两个以上的词中,其开头的音节(或其他重读音节)具有相同的字母或声音,主要是辅音字母。事实上,在诗中运用头韵的是最普遍的,所以说英文歌词中最具诗性的修辞可谓就是头韵了。从某种程度上说,音乐与头韵是有着千丝万缕的关系。头韵的主要修辞作用是增强语言的节奏感,此外还可用于模拟很多事物的声响,以使语言表达更为生动形象,特别是有些头韵短语既简短明快,有富于表现力,还具有音乐感,起到渲染对比的作用。所以用有音乐感的头韵来装点音乐中的歌词,欣赏这样的歌词就像在品尝人间极品了。

     在英文歌词中的压韵却不只有头韵这一种,而是有像汉语压韵一样压尾韵的。压尾韵在英语中并没有严格的定义,但是在英文歌词中这种压韵却是屡见不鲜的。压尾韵的好处就是使人感觉歌曲的音律非常归整,听起来也给人非常舒服的感觉,而且最重要的是给人一种气势,给人一种强调的感觉,让听者不由的注意到了其中压韵的那些单词以及那些单词的深意。可以这么说,在英文歌曲中的压尾韵就是在一段有四句或者多于四句的词中,每一行的最后一个单词的结尾的音节具有相同的字母或声音,主要是元音字母。这段歌词可以是一三行的尾音压韵,也可以是二四行的尾音压韵。也有在一句话中压韵的,这样就跟压头韵一样了,就是变成了在一句话中,在彼此靠近的两个或两个以上的词中,其结尾的音节具有相同的字母或声音,主要是元音字母。在英文歌词中,有很多的情况是各种压韵混在一起的,虽然有压韵非常工整的,但也不乏压韵中出现的种种意外。下面我们就赏析几段很有代表性的压韵的歌词。

1It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes,
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer,thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination
But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind
You're out of time

   选自(Thriller)

分析:这段歌词有好几处压头韵的地方。Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart这句中see、sight、stops压的是[s]韵,You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it这句中terror和takes压的是[t]韵,But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind这句中creature和 creepin'压的是[cr]韵。这首歌从歌名就可以看出是一首很恐怖的歌曲,歌中也确实渲染了一种很恐怖的氛围,歌中不断迫近的头韵,渲染那令人窒息的恐怖气氛,以及主人公的颤栗之感。夜色蒙蒙,亦真亦幻的恐怖在歌中层层递进的头韵使颤栗之感直击人心,无法躲藏。

2.Summer stretching on the grass... summer dresses pass
In the shade of a willow tree creeps a crawling over me
Over me and over you stuck together with god's glue
It's going to get stickier too...
It's been a long hot summer
Let's go undercover

Staring At The Sun

分析:这一小段歌词虽然短小,但是在一句话种的头韵和尾韵都运用的很贴切。Summer stretching on the grass... summer dresses pass这句话同时运用了头韵和尾韵:Summer stretching压的是[r]的头韵,grass dresses pass压的[s]的尾韵。In the shade of a willow tree creeps a crawling over mecreeps crawling[kr]的头韵。Over me and over you stuck together with god's glue这句中则压god's glue压的是[g]的头韵。开头前三句的几段压韵,带出了歌中为了光明的向往,不惜失去光明的一种情绪。豪言壮语之余,对心中的上帝还是有怀疑U2开始暴露给听众的是失意,嘲讽和反抗。音乐是凄迷游走的声线加上Bono时高时低,挥洒自如的表演。初听这后半段会极不舒服,但是慢慢品位你也许会觉得这是一首追逐希望的颂歌。



3Debbie just hit the wall

She never had it all

One Prozac a day

Husbands a CPA

Her dreams went out the door

When she turned twenty four

Only been with one man

What happen to her plan?                (选自  1985

分析: 这段歌词押的尾韵也是很明显的 。这段是两段两段的押尾韵的。 一二行wall,all [ ?:l ] 韵,三四day ,CPA行压 [e?]韵,五六door,four行压[ ?:]韵,而最后两句man,plan则是压[?n]韵的。这段工整的押韵再配上歌者很有磁性的嗓音,使得这段变得很有力度,给人以很强的震撼力,让听者难忘。而且这段是这首歌的开头,开头就点出了主人公被生活磨得曾经的理想都不知道那里去了,让我们认识到了不管时光怎样流逝,都要坚守自己的理想。

4Every day create your history

Every path you take you're leaving your legacy

Every soldier dies in his glory

Every legend tells of conquest and liberty   (选自 History

分析:这段押的尾韵是很简单的,很容易看出这段historylegacygloryliberty压的是[ i ]韵,前面的every day,every path ,every soldier ,every legend 这几个词就更加加深了整段歌词的流畅性,再加上后面押尾韵所助的一臂之力就更加的流畅了。这段压的尾韵极金尽所能,强调和烘托出了人类历史的光辉历史以及无限荣耀,让人记忆犹新。

 

5Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

(选自Vincent

这段歌词也是尾韵与头韵在英文歌词中相结合运用的典型例子。但是这两种压韵在本歌中运用的都不是很工整,有这一定的随意性。但是却给人一种散而不乱的感觉。第一段二三句的gray和day的尾韵压的是[e?]韵,五六七句中的hills、daffodils和chills压是是[ls]的第三段的二三行的blaze和 haze,四五行blue和 hue,六七行grain和 pain分别压[z]、[u:]和[ein]的尾韵。在Paint your palette blue and gray一句中Paint和 palette压的是[p]的头韵。How you suffered for your sanity这一句中suffered和sanity则是压[s]的头韵。Flaming flowers that brightly blaze这句中有两处压头韵的地方。Flaming 和flowers压[fl]的头韵,brightly 和blaze压的是[b]的头韵。“Vincent”的歌词是向梵高致敬以及试图探索画家的内心世界,对画家不为世人所了解而深表同情,更认为这个庸俗的世界承载不到一个天才而可惜。作者用头韵和尾韵的方式令人们在梵高的画中徜徉,压韵的那些词语大多色彩鲜明,给人以强烈的视觉冲击,就好像梵高的画一般。特别值得一提的是”flower,clouds/blaze,haze/ blue,hue这一对对韵味浓厚的词把人带到了梵高的<<月下丝柏>>, <<丝柏和花的树>>的意境中去,也带到了梵高反映农民生活的作品<<阿尔收割季节>>,<< 播种者>>,<< 点种>>的场景中去。或许正是作者对梵高强烈的敬佩之情,才使他能够用这么贴切的压韵来表达梵高的艺术作品强烈的色彩和他燃烧的热情,进而此歌感动了这么多的人。

6Try to remember the kind of September

When life was slow and, oh, so mellow

Try to remember the kind of September

When grass was green and grain was yellow

Try to remember the kind of September

When you were a tender and callow fellow

Try to remember and if you remember

Then follow, follow...

 

Try to remember when life was so tender

That no one wept except the willow

Try to remember the kind of September

When love was an ember about to billow

Try to remember and if you remember

Then follow, follow...

 

Deep in December it's nice to remember

Although you know the snow will follow

Deep in December it's nice to remember

The fire of September that made us mellow

Deep in December our hearts should remember

And follow, follow, follow...        (选自 Try to Remember

分析:Try To Remember这首歌整首歌简直就是押韵的经典,韵律押的非常齐,而且是异常的工整,整首歌都压着很工整的韵,而且还是尾韵与头韵相结合。本歌的尾韵是一三行押韵,二四行押韵。一三行September remember tender押的是[?]韵,而二四行mellowyellowfellowwillowbillow则押的是[??]韵。除了有隔行压尾韵之外,还有在一句中的压尾韵。Try to remember the kind of SeptemberrememberSeptember压[?]的尾韵。When life was slow and, oh, so mellow一句中slowsomellow又同时压[??]的尾韵。这样的压韵在这首歌中也可以算是不胜枚举了。这首歌压头韵最典型的则是When grass was green and grain was yellow这句,grassgreengrain这三个单词压的是[gr]的头韵。押韵的应用使得本歌琅琅上口,也是非常的容易记忆,让听者难忘。歌中透露出了一种柔柔的,暖暖的感觉。虽然是微凉的九月,但是作者的眼中却没有萧瑟,只有那丰收的喜悦与温馨的恬美感觉。押韵的应用就更加强调了这中感觉。