创作一首好的歌曲,固然要结合诸多方面的成功因素:如:和声、节奏、速度、结构等等,但最重要的,起决定作用的还是要有好的旋律。因此,有许多同行都认为,旋律是歌曲创作的灵魂,这是有一定道理的。创作歌曲旋律的方法有许多种,一般说来,有的是吸收现有的民歌曲调加工,提炼与歌词结合在一起,使之具有鲜明的民族风格与地域特色。(如“西北风”一类的歌 Creating a good song, of course, is a combination of many factors of success: harmony, rhythm, speed, structure, etc. But the most important and decisive is to have a good melody. Therefore, many colleagues think that melody is the soul of song creation. This is a certain truth. There are many ways to create song melodies. Generally speaking, some are to absorb the existing melody of folk songs, refine them with the lyrics, and make them distinctive in ethnic style and geographical features. (Such as “Northwest Wind” a class of songs