The Comparision Of Music Styles Of Cantonese Dulcimer And Northeastern Dulcimer

The Comparison of Music Styles of Cantonese Dulcimer and Northeastern Dulcimer is using the method for researching folk music to take a look at the songs, skills of performance. In this way, this article tries to find out the music and the styles of the two traditional schools. It also tries to reveal the main factors ihflucing the form of the music styles of these schools.Chapter one Discussion on music style and the main factors of the forming of the music style. The music style of Dulcimer is presented mainly by the style of playing, including the specific composition, playing skill, performancing forms and so on.. The variety of style can be seen from the early dulcimer songs to various dulcimer music compositions. It develops from adapted folk songs, creative solo to large dulcimer composition which includes both Chinese traditional cycle, suite and western variations.Chapter two Conclusions drawn from the comparsion of the instruments and traditional bamboo-strinkings of Cantonese music dulcimer and Northeastern dulcimer. 1. about the use of the musical instrument bamboo. Similarity: The bamboo is straight, good elasticity, stong enouth without bamboo joints on the surface. Difference:The Cantonese dulcimer is lighter with smaller bamboo ends. The bamboo it used is flimsy and soft which is suitable for playing lyric, bright and flowing songs. The northeastern dulcimer adopts the neutral bamboo with the amplitude around 15. The bamboo is straight and softer. About one third ofthe end is much thicker in the middle and thinner in the both sides, like a flat arc. And it is quite elastic. It is suitable to adopt up and down slide skills. 2. about bamboo-hammer striking. For Cantonese music dulcimer, Qiu He chou, the presentative of Left bamboo-hammer striking school, created the traditional bamboo-hammer striking ways. The school of Right bamboo-hammer striking with the presentative of Yan Laolie displaced with the Left bamboo-hammer striking as the dulcimer of modulation appeared. Then the Right bamboo-hammer striking beame the main playing way of Cantonese music dulcimer. Consequently, the cantonese music dulcimer players Tang Kaixuan, Chen Qizhan and some others created Left and Right bamboo striking. When the two schools perform tradtional songs , they always have their own ways. The Left bamboo -hammer striking and the Right bamboo-hammer striking both can not strike twice consecutively. But the presentative of Northeastern dulcimer, Wang Yifu's Consecutive Striking has changed the situation.Chapter Three Conclusions drawn from the comparison of songs with same name and special songs of Cantonese and Northeastern Dulcimer. The two schools both have the Turned Over Curtain. But the two songs of these two schools are different with the same name. They are performed in different ways of their own . The Cantonese music dulcimer has its presentative work, such as Rain Pattering at Plantain Leaves ,Thunder in drough and so on. The Northeastern dulcimer has its own presentative work Su Wu Herding Sheep.Chapter Four Comparision of the playing skills of the two schools. The Point skills they both have: Simple-bamboo, whole-bamboo; The Line skills they both have : Rotating-bamboo, Ricocheting wheel. The special skill of Cantonese music dulcimer: Ornamentation, Foil tone, Pause tone, Quavery-bamboo, Sit tone, Beat-away tone, Dual tone and so on. The special skill of Northeastern dulcimer: Rolling bamboo, Bending tone, up and down slide tone and so on.Chapter Five Summary of the factors influencing the form of the music styles of the two traditional schools. These factors mainly include geographical environment, tones of dialects, skills of different styles, aesthetic psychology.