A Tentative Analysis Of The Relationship Between Music And Dance In Sorceress Jumping On Handle Of The Big Dipper, A Sacrificial Sorcerous Dance Of She Nationality

Sorceress Jumping on Handle of the Big Dipper is a Sacrificial Sorcerous Dance accompanied by music for She Nationality, discovered in 1985 in Nanshan Village, Shekou Township, Fu' an City in east of Fujian. The paper based on the onsite investigation and study and sample collection, referring to musiciology, dance science and folk culture analyzes the music pattern and dance pattern of Sorceress Jumping on Handle of the Big Dipper from a perspective of dance incorporated musiciology in order to find out the intrinsic relationship between music and dance in this traditional sacrificial sorcerous dance and attempt to breakthrough the limit of previous classification study of it.This paper analyzes such aspects as the adjusting music scale, rhythm, beat, pace, music structure, melody, accompanying instruments, inserted words, basic dance rhythm and the typical moves in Sorceress Jumping on Handle of the Big Dipper, and outlines the basic pattern of the music and the dance. It probes into the rhythm and turning of the music to see their influence on dance, and also the flexibility of the expressive dance itself. Vision and sound combined, characters are better visualized, fully reflecting thewish to drive the evil and pray for auspiciousness.This paper also tries exploring the under-lied cultural root for the combination pattern of music and dance in Sorceress Jumping on Handle of the Big Dipper and its historic significance of inheriting Chinese traditional music-accompanied dance art by way of the unique geographical environment where the sorcerous dance engendered and the Han Nationality music and religious culture assimilated in it.