An Ensemble Of Chinese Wind And Percussion Instruments In Clan Identity

An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments, as a most prevalent performance type in Chinese traditional folk instrument music, has been developed since Ming Dynasty. It is an instrumental ensemble form, consisting of wind instrument and percussion.Our study aims to investigate the characteristics of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments in Fenghua and Fuyang regions in Zhejiang Province, focusing on An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments in the clan rituals or ceremonies. The case analysis in those regions revealed how An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments has been changed in different rituals in different historical periods, and how the local people created and maintained their clan society through the music.The study discussed two points of view:how does music affect culture----the impact of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments in the clan rituals, and how does culture built music----the impact of village-centered clan society on the inheritance and continuity of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments. The first point of view revealed the changes of regional An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments styles with time, and the second point of view clarified the relationship between the ancestral culture and music tradition.The thesis consists of introduction, sections 1-4 and conclusion.In the introduction, the background of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments study in Zhejiang Province was introduced, the research design and methods were described. Section 1 and 2 investigated the clan ceremonies and the appliance of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments in the ceremonies in Fenghua and Fuyang respectively, then analyzed the historical changes of ceremonies and An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments by studying the literatures, live and oral texts, as well as the backgrounds of geography, faith, society and culture. Thus these 2 sections described how An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments has been practiced in those regions. Section 3 investigated the Music construction of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments in the two areas. Section 4 explained the music culture phenomenon described above. It is concluded that different types of An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments are in accordance to different social status and intelligence in the clan society where subgroups of people are formed by different classes to maintain the clan, meanwhile, the variable clan identity affects the development of clan ceremonies and An ensemble of Chinese wind and percussion instruments.