A Research On Folk Song Singing Art Of Manchu In Northeast

Manchu folk song is a singing form formed in the natural and humanistic ecology of Northeast China with strong ethnic and rural charm and local cultural characteristics.The content of the singing form covers the production,life and local customs of the Manchu people,and expresses their longing and pursuit for a better life.The singing words are simple and rustic,and composed of unique Manchu tones,which display sincere emotions deeply rooted in the life of the Manchu people.These songs record the feelings of the Manchu people's joy,anger,happiness and sadness,therefore developing into a music culture that accompanies the life of the Manchu people.Through case analysis and case comparison,this thesis studies the foundations of the formation of natural and humanistic ecology,the rhythm of singing words,singing styles and expressions,and significance of inheritance of Manchu folk songs.To be specific,this thesis looks back on the diachronic and synchronic development space of Manchu folk songs,utilizes the literature records and the genealogical data as research materials,and develops its perspectives with respect to field-investigated traditional reserved folk songs,and extensively-collected new-style folk songs integrated with cultural characteristics of the times.The thesis is divided into six parts.The introduction part mainly states the origin of the research,the research ideas,the research status and problems,the definition of related concepts,the research purpose and methods,and the research significance and contribution.The first chapter,from the perspective of "history and culture of Manchu folk songs",expounds the interdependent relationship between historically reserved Manchu folk songs and Manchu folk songs developed in natural and humanistic ecology,through a review of the history of Manchu folk songs.It also diachronically demonstrates the cultural development history of Manchu folk songs in different ethnic regions,and further discusses the underlying relationship between ethnic spiritual belief represented by Manchu folk songs and the development of live singing.The second chapter,explains the characteristics of Manchu folk songs in terms of singing contents,tone structure and singing style differences,through case studies of different types of currently existing Manchu folk songs.subsequently,this chapter elaborates the singing features and value of existence of Shaman divine songs—a representative type of the Manchu folk songs.The third chapter discusses the singing arts and the dialect phonological characteristics of Manchu folk songs from the perspective of Contextual Linguistics.Through comparative analysis of practical cases,this chapter expounds the similarities and differences of words rhythms and singing styles between Manchu folk songs and other ethnic folk songs in the same region,and conducts an in-depth study of the singing styles of Manchu folk songs in three languages: Manchu,Manchu/Chinese mix,and Chinese.The fourth chapter illustrates the representation of original Manchu folk songs after the processes of innovation,integration and development,and displays the characteristics of singing styles of innovated Manchu folk songs,from the perspective of cultural transcendence.From the perspective of "difference but harmony",singing styles of folk songs in the same ethnolinguistic groups and of the same type are compared,and so are the singing individuality in the same region,of the same type but from different ethnic sources,through the analyses of cases.This chapter continues to discuss how original Manchu folk songs are transcended and contemporarily represented by drawing on and integrating modern multi-tone sound techniques,and exemplify the supporting roles of costumes,dance,musical instruments and other comprehensive arts in the representation of Manchu folk songs with the help of practical performance examples.The fifth chapter mainly describes the influence of the integration of Manchu and Han culture on the inheritance and implementation of Manchu folk songs in the multicultural state,and further analyzes how the inheritance forms,singing forms,and inheritance horizons of Manchu folk songs adapt to the development directions of contemporary society and to people's aesthetic cognition of the moment in diverse linguistic contexts.