Guanxi Funeral Music Music Classes And Research

The investigational object of this article is the folk bands which have a wide distribution at the countryside of Guanxi at Changde town of Hunan province. These kind of folk bands are social organizations based on consanguinity and habitat. They go in for musical performance in the local funeral rites. The keystone of this article is researching into the music of local funeral rites and the musical groups, with it, we use the experience of selected units to promote work in the entire area. The article consists of three parts: the study of the local funeral rites musical thing-in-itself, the chronicle of the rites, and question of cultural anthropology in the fieldwork.The first part: to narrate the form, the action of playing and the tone of instrument depending on the data derived from my first-hand fieldwork.The second part: to take a doctrinal provision about the form and the music of the location depend on the theory of folk music and the cultural anthropology.The third part: to describe deeply and review doctrinally about the actuality of the local funeral bands.