Guiding Buyi Folk Songs

As an important traffic and throat road in Guizhou province,Guiding County has the reputation of "gateway of Guiyang" and "throat of central Guizhou".Guiding County has a strong historical and cultural background and rich folk art and culture.As the intangible cultural heritage of The Buyi people in Guiding County,Buyi folk songs--Eighteen Tunes is the only traditional music intangible cultural heritage project,which is an important name card and music representative of The Buyi folk songs in Guiding County.It includes 18 kinds of different tunes,short in length and beautiful in tune.There is no fixed pattern of lyrics.Generally,the singer chooses tunes to improvise and sing according to his needs.The creation subject of eighteen tunes is all the working people of Buyi ethnic group,and its singing content is closely related to the custom,personality,psychological characteristics,life and environment of Buyi people,which is the direct expression of buyi culture.It is not only a form of entertainment,but also a common way of socializing among the Buyi people.In 2007,it was selected into the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Guizhou Province.Taking buie music culture of folk song--eighteen tune as the research object,using the ethnomusicology,and folklore,traditional Chinese music morphology,Chinese traditional music theory and related to such disciplines as non-material cultural heritage professional knowledge,to 18 living space,the origin,theoretical definition,music features,performance and function,present situation and the inheritance to delve into,It holds that eighteen tunes,nourished by natural and cultural environment and passed down from generation to generation by buyi people,has formed the current musical characteristics,performance functions and inheritance status quo,and has become the most representative musical intangible cultural heritage in Guiding County.This paper consists of five chapters: The first chapter summarizes the research status,significance,content,difficulties and innovation of the paper;Chapter two gives a brief overview of the existence and cultural space of eighteen Tunes.The third chapter uses the thinking of Traditional Chinese music to analyze the musical characteristics of 18-tone,such as tune,tune,mode,scale,creative characteristics,rhythm and beat.The fourth chapter,based on investigation and direct participation,describes the present performance occasions,methods,costumes and functions of eighteen Tunes.The fifth chapter summarizes the existing situation,inheritance situation,protection situation under the background of intangible cultural heritage and the problems they face.In addition,the author has participated in various folk song singing activities together with the inheritors and performers for many times.According to the stage performance methods and the degree of attention paid to eighteen Tunes,the author has summarized the protection achievements and problems they are facing at present.Finally,combining with the theoretical knowledge of intangible cultural heritage,suggestions are put forward for the future inheritance and protection of eighteen tunes.