The Research And Preliminary Study Of Taoism Shadow Play In Huan County

Shadow play,also called Leather-Silhouette show,has been a very popular folk opera.Taoism shadow play in Huan county Gan su province belongs to one of the great religion operas.Taoism shadow play in Huan county,which is the production of the connection between old story singing and shadow play,is a folk Taoism.The effect of special nature, literature,environment and etc makes Huan county Taoism shadow play, which is named "east rock music".Looking for the origin of orchestral music in Huan county Taoism shadow play,Firstly,we should look the origin of Huan county shadow play.Orchestral music plays two roles in the whole play,one is performance qu pai,and the other is performance prelude.Qu pai can be divided into si zhu qu pai and suo na qu pai by the playing musical instruments.Both of them play very important roles in the Taoism plays,they can enrich and exaggerate this plot.Orchestral musical instruments,which include bamboo flute,flute,suona and bugle, have the Pulling string instruments and the blowing pipe musical instruments.Most of these musical instruments were made by there local entertainers because of relatively seal.This is a big luminescent spot of the local shadow play.The present research and study about orchestral music in Huan county Taoism shadow play mainly focuses in the introduction of orchestra,but lacks of the detailed description on the manufacture material,manufacture process,performance method and characteristic of orchestra.The study of the function of orchestral music mainly focuses in the musical record,but lacks of the investigation and elaboration on its ecological environment and performance,and survival present situation. Through lots of field investigation and studying the related achievement, this article makes a preliminary investigation and research on the source and course of orchestral music,the musical instrument manufacture,the musical instrument performance,the orchestra disposition,qu pai use,qu pai classification,and the musical character,the ecological environment and the present survival situation.The full text can be divided into three chapters.The first chapter mainly focuses in the source and course of orchestral music in Huan county Taoism shadow play,makes a preliminary inference on the orchestral musical origin and development course.The second chapter mainly talks about the introduction and musical function of orchestral instruments,and makes a detailed elaboration about the manufacture material,the manufacture method,the performance technique and designing strings and tunes of six orchestral instruments including four strings,er hu,bamboo flute,flute,suo na and bugle.It also reorganizes the roles of prelude,plays,accompaniment music which are played by orchestral music in orchestra,makes a preliminary analyze on the source and course of qu pal,and statistics the number,kinds and connecting regulations of qu pai.In a word,this chapter mainly makes people better understand the orchestral music in Huan county Taoism shadow play from the angle of music ontology.The third chapter,the present situation of orchestral music in the Huan county shadow playing Orchestra.It makes a detailed description for the survival geographical environment and present situation of orchestral music in the orchestra,and comprehensively unfolds the realistic condition of Taoism shadow play in Huan county.