Study On Musical Change Of Nanfeng Nuo Dance

Nanfeng, Jiangxi has the title of the cradle of Nuo dance, which is one of the fantastic flowers in Chinese Nuo culture, with its long history, simple and unsophisticated dance, the mysterious Nuo mask, distinctive instrument and music language. So far, academic world study the cultural meaning of Nanfeng Nuo dance from the aspects such as ceremony, history, religion, folk custom, etc. However, study from the angle of music is seldom found in the research results of scholars. The paper is to study Nanfeng Nuo dance under the background of music and it is consists of three parts: firstly, an overall introducing to Nanfeng Nuo dance; secondly, specific investigation and analysis of two representative town Nuo dances on existing situation and inheriting method on the background of Ethnomusicology; analysis the Nuo music itself from the angle of instrument, melody, dance. thirdly, by comparing its survival background and musical characteristic, conclusion can be drew that the two county Nuo dances are fundamentally same on the basis of time, structure and also the differences in the succession of teaching , instrument sound, performer's sound , style are mentioned in the paper Nanfeng Nuo dance complements with county custom and they compose an indiscerptible unit which show the significance of the existing of Nuo dance on the background of county and social culture. From both synchronic and diachronic point of view, Nanfeng Nuo dance has diversified according to different place, time and different music style, performance, and significance. All these display the development of the characteristics of folk-custom, diversity and marginalization in Nanfeng Nuo dance with the change of festival ceremony and folk belief.