On The Developmental Features Of Qingyang Tune

Chinese opera is a comprehensive art involving literature, music and performance , among which, music exists as an important means of displaying the plots, expressing the emotions and arousing the audience's responses. During the process of development, the music of Chinese opera has evolved from the mere Qupai variety into the multistructure consisting of the Qupai variety, the variety-metre-form variety and the comprehensive variety. In case of the evolution from the Qupai variety to the variety-metre-form variety, the Qingyang tune from Anhui plays the key role. Breaking the Conventional limits of Qupai, the "rolling tone" in Qingyang tune helped the performers fulliest portray the characters and convey the emotion, which casts significant influence on today's high-pitched rhyme scheme system of Chinese opera. In some local operas, such as Mulian Opera, Gan Opera in jiangxi, Liyuan Opera in Fujian, Chu Opera in Hubei, Xiang Opera in Hunan, chuan Opera in Sichuan and Liuzi Opera in Shandong, Qingyang tune still exists in them as an essential component. This paper intends to sort out and make a tentative research on the traces of the emergence and development of Qingyang tune, and meanwhile, present a theoretical analysis of the distinctive feature of diversity during its spreading. The author holds that the diversity embodied in Qingyang tune is also the common feature of the Chinese folk music. The immanent factors accounting for its popularity are worthy of a deeper study, which may provide valuable reference to the practice of promoting folk music and ethnic culture.