Meige Musical Culture Of The Chuxiong Yi Study

This article discusses Chuxiong Meige music and associated cultural issues. As approved by the State Council in 2008 Meige as state-level intangible cultural heritage, its artistic charm has caused increasing interests. Therefore, there is a need to let more people know what is Meige, what are Meige's characteristics, and to draw more people, especially the local people's awareness of the protection of the Meige At present, the specialized research about the culture of Meige music has not been found yet, and only a small amount of Meige sheet music of have been published in Chuxiong folk songs Series. People who want to learn more about Meige music can only refer to introductions of some literature and folklore monographs. The author strived to take music as a clue to understand and interpret of the ancient and resourceful Meige culture by gathering relevant information of music scores, studying the associated folklore, history and culture, field surveys, interviews, collecting folk songs and other means to study comprehensively on Meige in terms of Ethnomusicology. In article the author made some points for the traditional classification of Meige by classifying Bimo tune into the category of Meige music from the perspective of musicology for the first time, summarized and classified on Meige music features by analyzing examples of music scores. In the meantime of studying the music ontology, the author also analyzed Meige's cultural change and sought to show Meige's characteristics and cultural value. By exploring, the author believes that a Bimo tune sung by Bimo also belongs to Meige, Bi Mo Meige and the elderly Meiga are all old songs Meige genre, and also a kind of minority folk art Meige's cultural changes had a certain relation to genre, theme, music meaning, concerts taboos. The protection for Meige should reflect the live cultural values and overall protection.