Norwegian Folk Violin When Nightingale "music Culture, Tradition And Its Changes

Based on the theory of ethnomusicology, this thesis is targeted at a peripheral folk music of the Norwegian "Hardanger fiddle". Through a study of the transmission and change of its historical tradition, characteristic construction, genre, style, performance and other relevant aspects, and by taking the change of time and space as a thread in the course of transmission and the Geertz-Rice tri-part model of "historical tradition-social maintenance-individual creation" as the theoretical framework, the writer presents a detailed exposition in the development of the role that Hardanger tradition played in different historical periods, and a comparison between its transmission respectively in Norway and US after the regional changes brought up by immigration. By probing into the formation of Hardanger tradition and drawing on theories from urban ethnomusicology, it affords a profound discussion of Hardanger's social maintenance and development under the influence of urbanization in modern Norwegian society as well as the effect of individual composers. In addition, a clear explanation is given regarding Hardanger's transmission in the context of the immigrants' community in US. By means of expounding the transmission of Handanger music, the thesis aims at the socio-cultural meaning of this traditional instrument, and at the approach to the maintenance of music traditions.