Yugur Traditional Folk Songs And New Folk Songs Comparative Study

Yugur is the ethnic minorities which can be found only in Gansu Province. Despite its small population, the resources of folk songs are very rich.The study and analysis into Yugur traditional and new folk songs will certainly exert a profound influence on the development of their musical culture, inheritance and protection of their exellent folk music, further expansion of their creative approaches and prosperity of Yugur folk songs.Based on the past research results, this paper has summarized the general characteristics of the traditional and new folk songs of Yugur in a comparative way by the morphological analysis into their traditional folk songs widely spread in the history, modal tone, musical structure, melody method structure, sentence structure, development approaches of tone, rhythm, and performing forms etc.This paper has discovered and summrised the musical theories as well as composition techniques paid less attention to in the previous musical documents so as to provide source materials and composition techniques for the future creation of Yugur folk music by the analysis and study into the body of their traditional and new folk songs , and into the relations of inheritance and development between traditional and new folk songs.Despite its numerous folk songs, yet with the development of the times, social progress and ecological changes, there emerged a decreasing trend in the traditional folk songs and of course how to inherit and innovate traditional folk songs constituts one of the serious problems facing us. On the basis of inheriting excellent traditional folk songs and regarding innovation as the key, doing a good job in the creation of Yugur new folk music is where the prosperity and development of Yugur music lies.