A Study Of The Mongoian Pastoral Song With Long Drawn-Out Tune

Against the background of the historical development, religious faith, productive life and ways and customs of the Mongols and on the basis of the characteristics of the form of the pastoral song, this paper make a profound study of the Mongolian pastoral song with a long drawn - out tune. The study is made by using theoretically analytical and comparative methods of the study music and by learning from the methods adopted in the study of ethnology and history. The study boils down to the following points:1. The Mongolian pastoral song with a long drawn - out tune is a kind of folk song with a long history. Its coming into being and development is closely connected with the religious faith, customs, tradition and historical development of the nationalities in Northern China. Investigating part of the Altaic folk song we find their folk music is somewhat similar to the Mongolian pastoral song in the content of the words and the form of melody.2. The Mongolian pastoral song with a long drawn - out tune embodies aesthetic awareness of the Mongols which took shape in the course of nomadic productive activities in the grasslands. Whether in the form of melody, or the content of the words, or the aesthetic characteristics it clearly reflects the features of the grassland culture with heaven, earth, herdsmen and animals as the core.3. The production and life of the Mongols are characterized withmigration. Therefore the formation and content of the pastoral song varied with the change of the environment in which they live. The similarity of the pastoral song to the mountain climbing song in the western part of Inner Mongolia shows the fusion and exchange of the Mongolian folk song and that of the Han.4. as a representative form of art the Mongolian pastoral song with a long drawn - out tune is still an artistic form through which the Mongols express the feelings. The song draws wide attention in the fields of musical education, musical creation, and musical performance. Thus, the study of the pastoral song is an important theoretical work to chary on the develop the Mongolian musical culture.