《悲歌》,又名《处世难》。创作于1927年冬。与《苦闷之讴》的创作前后相距不到一年。1927年也是军阀割据与混战的一年。这年,奉系军阀赶跑了皖系的段祺瑞,占领了河北省,进驻了北平。更有甚的是,军阀张作霖手下的政客刘哲充当了军阀政府的教育总长。于是,对教育事业横加摧残。先是把北大、师大、工大、医大、农大、女师大、艺专等9所不同类型的大专院校,强行合并成一个不伦不类的“国立京师大学堂”。接着又以陈腐的“音乐有伤风化,无关社会人心”为由,勒令北京大学音乐传习所、北京国立艺术专门学校音乐系、女大音乐系停办。后来经刘天华与音乐界及社会各界人士的奔走呼号,女大音乐系才得以幸存。而萧友梅主持多年的全 “Sad song”, also known as “life difficult.” Created in the winter of 1927. Less than a year before and after the creation of “Depression”. 1927 is also a warlord separatism and melee year. This year, Fengxian warlords drove out Wan Duan from Anhui Province, occupying Hebei Province and stationed in Peiping. What is more, Liu Zhe, a politician under warlord Zhang Zuolin, acted as the education chief of the warlord government. As a result, the cause of education is overwhelmed. First, we forced the merger of 9 different types of tertiary institutions such as Peking University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Univer- sity of Agriculturists, Nongda University, Women’s Major and Arts College into an all-inclusive “National Capital University”. Then again with the corrupt “music is not harmful to the public, ” as an excuse, instructed the Peking University Music Institute, Beijing National Art College Music Department, the female music department stopped. Later, after Liu Tianhua and the music industry and people from all walks of life in the running letters, female music department was able to survive. And Xiao Youmei presided over the whole years