The Study Of Music Ritual In Zhou Dynasty

This article is a Ritual Study of rites and music in Zhou Dynasty. From the perspective of the musical ritual, To Study the function of music in ritual. To solve this problem, this paper based methods of Bibliography, archeology and anthropology ritual music methods supplemented to complete. Research data in this paper consists of three parts, namely, text, pictures, music relics.In this paper, ritual, music, musical ritual three clues throughout the text, ritual, refers to the Zhou historical and Five Rites framework, studying the Process of the Zhou ritual’s establishment, development, peak, collapse process; music, from the perspective refers to the role of music in the rites, to explore the relationship of ritual and music; musical ritual, including Extrinsic appearance and the Internal requirements of the Rule. These three clues above leads to the musical Sequence, the relationship of ritual and music, the function of the musical Sequence in the relationship of ritual and music. And this determines the structure of this article was divided into four parts, that is, theory, literature, ritual, collapse. Theoretical, literature part is the first problem to solve, ritual, collapsing part to solve two problems later.Theoretical part discussing the musical ritual’s six elements, witch is Musical Instruments, Musical works, Music occasions, musicians, music sequences, Music Genres. Musical instruments, There are two kinds of musical instruments, witch is Playing musical instruments and Controlling music instruments; Musical works, From three aspects discussed, witch is Geographical factors, Controlling music factors, Archery program; Music occasions, Contains two meanings, such as space, orientation, also from The capital structure and the internal structure of the building; musicians, discussing the rank of their identity, gender, classification, space, orientation, etc; musical genres, discussing the Etiquette state and inter-relationships of every genres. Such as ritual’s music, Orthodox music, Banquet Music, Folk music, Sacred Music, Chamber Music, Country Music, Miscellaneous music. This is the first and second chapters.Literature part contains three documents, which are text, pictures, and music relics. In the text section, Carding the musical ritual and previous studies contained in "the thirteen classic works". This article was divided into Classic record, the ancients Research, and Today’s research three parts. This is the third chapter. In the picture section, the main job is to explain the picture of the music ceremony information, these pictures drawn by previous scholars. The writing mode of this part, mainly in the framework of the five rituals. This is the fourth chapter; in the musical relics section, the main task is to interpret the musical ritual information of the musical relics, to make up the lack of the musical ritual. Which includes three aspects, namely, supplements to the text, falsification, prove. This is the fifth chapter.Ritual part The main work is to study the relationship between ritual and music in Zhou Dynasty. First of all, in the introduction, the main work is to discuss the viewpoint of the relationship between ritual and music by the previously Scholars. Then, from the perspective of musical ritual, discusses the role of music for the Zhou ritual system.(1) Through music learning ceremony, there are two ways:from musicians to learn the ceremony, many of the ceremony education are conducted by the musicians in Music occasions, play music and ceremony education are not mutually separated. There are two ways to learn ritual music, the teaching content of fixed and of temporary; the former has two ways to learn, witch is the prescribed courses and Study at home. The latter has tree ways to learn, witch is Tell, teach, Remonstrance; from Music activities witch was Learning music and Instrumental ensemble to learn the ceremony, by Inserting the ritual and Cormotative meaning.(2) Through music to ritual, including Play music and No music. Ceremonial occasions, the use of music or not, are reflected salute purposes. The former are discussed in the framework of the five ritual ceremonies to run etiquette with music ritual; latter discusses the Ban Music Systems, and pointed out the phenomenon that salute the presence through the ban music. This is the sixth and seventh chapters.Collapse part discusses the role of music ritual of destruction, to be called Ceremonial destruction through music. The transgression of the ritual is reflected through music ritual. Ceremony Disintegration process is the process of music ritual changes, the new replaces the old ritual ceremony, the new order to replace the old order. We discuss three aspects to this issue, witch is Geographical factors, Gender, Acceptability:(1) geographical factors, the Western Zhou Music was Most belong to the music of the Northwest, After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Re-emergence of the local folk music, and was the locals like, and Do not like, exclusion others (Zhou Dynasty) music.(2) Gender, Play music of the Western Zhou Dynasty was men, Eastern Zhou period, male and female musicians mixed. Female musicians began to enter the palace, they impact the dominance of male musicians, so that the latter scattered and fell into civil.(3) Acceptability, In this section, we compare the Western Zhou music ritual and Eastern Zhou new music, Discusses the limitations of the Western Zhou Dynasty music ritual and its attractiveness fading phenomenon. In contrast, people eventually accept the new music, while the Western Zhou ritual at arm’s length. In this beleaguered situation, Ceremony Disintegration appeared inevitable. This is the Chapter VII.Conclusion the paper argues that the political role of ritual music is achieved through music ritual. Western Zhou ritual music is just Belong Zhou tribe in northwest, the music coexist with other tribes. Zhou people want the country to promote their music ritual to suppress the local folk music and Excessive music, Thus achieving shift customs, a world purpose. However, After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, with the decline of the Zhou forces, Vassal state against their country no longer obeys the Western Zhou Dynasty music ritual. Means they resist, or alienated from the emotion, but to accept their feelings more suitable for local music to entertain themselves; or from a political point of transgression fails to comply with the Western Zhou arranged music ritual, and thus compete with the emperor rights.Prospect The main work of this part is to point out the deficiencies of this article, and found that those deserve to continue to study.