The Investigation Of The Zhasaketu Long Tune Folk Songs

zhasaketu long song is one of the typical kind of Mongolian folk songs,also an important part of Mongolian long tune.In recent years,the study of Mongolian long songs has become more and more popular in academic world.However,the study of long songs from keyouqian banner of Hinggan League is very rare,thus the author intends to study the zhasaketu long songs so as to fill in the vacancy in the study of this area.To fulfil this,the author had interviewed many artists in his hometown about zhasaketu long songs and also had done a thorough research about its history as well as its cultural background in order to show readers the mode of its existence,local people's attitude toward zhasaketu long songs and the several different categories of this kind of songs.Based on these previous works,the author also tried to discuss its artistic features and do a further classification of zhasaketu long song.At the same time,by comparing zhasaketu long song with the long songs from other different areas,the author presented his opinion and suggestion about the protection and the inheritance of zhasaketu long song.The whole paper consists of three parts,they are the introduction,the main text and the conclusion respectively.The main text includes four chapters.The first section of the first chapter introduces the historical and cultural background of zhasaketu long song while the second introduces the general situation of geography of zhsaketu area.The first section of the second chapter analyzes the distribution of zhasaketu long song,the second reveals the existing categories which were classified by the locals and the scholars,and the third presents the current situation of the long song applied in the locals' daily life.The first section of the third chapter analyzes the language characteristics of zhsaketu long song while the second the tune characteristics and the third the singing art characteristics.The first section of the fourth chapter discusses the changing of environment of zhasaketu long song and the crisis of singer's demise.The second conveys the author's personal suggestion about how to protect and promote zhasaketu long song.The conclusion expresses thanks.