Exploring On The Music Cultural Forms Of Nanchang Caicha Drama

The Nanchang Caicha drama, embracing the essence of local traditional culture, reflecting the conventional characteristics of multi-faceted folk culture of Nanchang, stands as one of the representatives in the local cultures. As the development of time, Nanchang Caicha drama is still very popular among the urban areas and countryside, though many local arts are fading away in Nanchang. The artistic beauty it contains needs to be explored seriously. That is also the task for our generations in 21st century to protect and inherit this artistic beauty.Taking the arts of Nanchang Caicha drama as mainstream, This paper will systematically explain historical development, cultural form, musical characteristics and specific musical case analysis of the Nanchang Caicha drama, some pictures, collection of music scores, drama scripts as first hand materials to analyze the case will be attached so as to demonstrate present development of local dramas and their Cultural cohesiveness and more directly experience development and musical status quo of Nanchang Caicha drama under the character description as well. Research of this paper is based upon literature integration and fieldwork of ethnomusicology from part and overall point of view in combination with prescriptive and empirical angles. Taking historical development settings of Nanchang Caicha drama as starting point, this paper is to demonstrate the influence given by local cultural environment to the development of this drama through analyzing peripheral cultural forms of Nanchang Caicha drama such as its exchanges with other local arts, its social context and dialectical context. According to music records got from investigation, this paper also tells implementation of musical forms and characteristics from the perspectives of the tune and forms of musical instruments of Nanchang Caicha drama. At last, this paper explores the differences and its deepening reasons between the professional and amateur performing groups with different performing background and characteristics through the analysis of on-the-spot performance of Nanchang Caicha drama, and concludes its value and significance as a flowing cultural convention so as to highlight its local characteristics and regional features and make my own contributions to the protecting and inheritance of this local drama arts.