Cultural Change Of Liaoning Drum Music In Social Process

Since ancient times, one of the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture is to integrate all kinds of cultures to enrich and develop Chinese culture by absorbing different cultures of different regions with the open mind to the world in the development of the society, while the national characteristics can be well-kept. It is true in the field of musical instruments. Liaoning drum music, as other traditional music, contains the elements of different cultures both in musical forms and musical ontology through absorption, development, integration and creationLiaoning Guyue is one type of the important Chinese folk music, which is still quite active now in some regions of Liaoning province. Liaoning Guyue has been gradually changed in such aspects as the band constitution, the pieces of music in performance, playing style and the way of heritance since 1950 s with the changes of the society and values, which has been influenced by the thinking mode of western music under the background of today’s world of economic globalization, cultural diversity. The Guyue in the funeral customs has been constantly changing and developing with the funeral reform and the changes in the artistic tastes and appreciating habits of the music consumers.This essay is to fully state the culture changes of liaoning guyue in the procession of the society by taking the development of liaoning guyue as the clue, taking the social developing as the background, the culture changes as the chances, the music form research as the start point, the culture inquiry as the study purpose. It proves that the emergence and development and change of Liaoning Guyue gradually come into being in the procession of the society. And the variation, updated at each process is often partial, quantitative change. The overall morphology of Liaoning guyue reflects at different level t he remains of the accumulation of social environment, ecological environment and cultural background in different historical periods as well as the traces of the creation by folk artists. Liaoning guyue has been spreaded so far after the transmission from generation to generation. And It will develop with the development of society and change with the change of times all the time. Cultural change in Liaoning drum music is the cultural reconstruction with the mutual winding and integration of traditional music elements and "modern" music factors. It belongs to the period of both contempory and history, It "today" style is still blooming "old" cultural brilliance.