Hunan Qi Drama Heritage Investigation And Research

Qiyang opera, with a long history of more than 500 years in Hunan, had formed a relatively mature inherited system in locality in the past. Since the end of 19th century, however, Qiyang opera had to face a chance and challenge with the introduction of western music culture and its educational system to China.At present, Qiyang opera , one of Chinese local traditional music forms, is falling from the main stream to less influential one, because our music schooling pays less attention to the study of local traditional music education. Although a few domestic music educators have questioned about the local traditional music inherence and education, and suggested a more traditional way to educate, there are still many educators encourage to apply the western educational methods to the local traditional music education.This paper mainly probes into the inherence of the past folk environment and the present schooling environment and analyses and researches the inherited forms of Qiyang opera in order to develop it. It also presents an example of curriculum study of local traditional music, which would find a good solution to how to better improve the local traditional music in schooling.