《音乐世界》要我谈一谈关于《在那遥远的地方》的创作情况,这不由得引起遥远的回忆。早在一九三八年,我曾在甘肃的祁连山北侧,记录过十几首哈萨克族民歌,三九年又在青海草原记录下一些藏族民歌,记得在十几首哈萨克族民歌中竟有三首的开头同样上。在黄河上游记下的藏族民歌,大部份开头都唱“亚赛”。后来体会到,这样的开始句,不属于歌的内容,而是歌的“引子”。经过拖长的音调,把要唱的话 The “world of music” asked me to talk about the creation of “in that distant place”, which could not but arouse far-reaching memories. As early as 1938, I had recorded more than a dozen Kazakh folk songs on the northern side of the Qilian Mountains in Gansu. In the meantime, I recorded some Tibetan folk songs in the Qinghai grasslands. I remember that in a dozen or so Kazakh folk songs, The same begins at the beginning. Most of the Tibetan folk songs recorded in the upper reaches of the Yellow River sing “Asian Games” at the beginning. Later learned that such a beginning sentence, not the content of the song, but the song “primer.” After a long tone, the words to be sung