The Study Of The GangTianShen Ceremony Music In The Southern HeNan And Western AnHui Province

GangTianShen is a main kind of sacrifice among the folk in Southern Henan and Anhui province. Up to now, there still populars Great Sacrifice, Family Sacrifice, Field Sacrifice and Public Sacrifice. From the angle of Cultural Anthropology, Religion and Enthomusicology, the text aims to explore the music-using principle of the folk ceremony music in Southern Henan and Western Anhui province, to seek the function and role what music plays in the ceremony order, and eventually to reveal the Enthomusicological value of the music research on the GangTianShen Ceremony.Chapterâ… revolves around the conception,function,history and present condition to start to narrate. It is considered that GangTianShen Ceremony is a menifestation of multi-God belief in Central China. It derived from a local sacrifice dance named "DengChuZi" which is important to display the professionalization and familization of the Wizards. GangTianShen Opera is a kind of ceremony opera, with ceremony as its form, substituted speech as its way of expression, divine figures as its depicting objects, wordly issues of good and evil as its contents, singing,dancing and rapping as its performance methods, preying as its goal. It has 4 functions, namely, belief, sacrifice,ceremony and performance, thus it is still active in the folk belief system in Southern Henan and Western Anhui province.Chapterâ…¡begins with the classification of the Divine Pedigree in folk Southern Henan and Western Anhui province. It is considered that the belief among the people in Southern Henan and Western Anhui province, which centers around Family Divinity, Ancestors Divinity and Fuxi, belongs to the category of Secular Divinity Belief. It is a kind of original thought remains, and has strong osmosis in the folk. It is not only a holy semiotic system under the power construction, but has the behavior features of structualization and systematization, and it is also the basis of music-using in GangTianShen Ceremony.Chapterâ…¢records the processes of 4 different types of GangTianShen Ceremony, which reveals all kinds of relationships between Wizard, Musician and Master, and emphatically describes the way and process of music-using by Wizard and Musician. It is widely accepted that according to the scale and time the music-using scope is variously made. The ceremony is a performance centering around the Secular Divinity.Chapterâ…£explores the music-using principle of GangTianShen from "Near-Far", "Time -Space" and "Behavior -Spirit". It is considered that, during the process of the ceremony, the finished music has a distinction between the general and the special on account of daily use. As a kind of ceremony music it has the character of "stability", while as a kind of traditional opera music it has the character of "flexibility". It absorbs other kind of music while uses its own, then forms the "stability-flexibility" style of ceremony music.Chapterâ…¤takes the ceremony as an entire music product on the basis of Structualism theory. It is considered that the ceremony performance itself has art creative quality. It not only conforms to the music's three essential factors including entire structure, segment structure accent structure, but also conforms to the general rules of mastering and controlling sound. Therefore a set of musical structure principle with self-character is made.Chapterâ…¥, GangTianShen Ceremony music research is a case study under the guide of Enthomusicological theory. It is a behavior process which adapts the method of transdisciplinary to explore the uniqueness of the ceremony music, and to search the potential significance of the behaviors at folk belief ceremony in social life.In a word, GangTianShen Ceremony music is an important component of the folk belief system in Southern Henan and Western Anhui province. Centering around the Secular Divinity Belief and taking the local music material as the main tune, it sets up a unique local belief system.