Northern Shaanxi Folk Singing Style Inquiry

Regardless of being the Han Race area or the minority races area, the spreading of folk songs is the most popular, diversest, and with profoundest effects. Folk song of north Shanxi is one kind of the most gorgeous folk songs in China, which have developed historically various folk songs. However, the bright timing for folk song of north Shanxi has past, it is facing severe challenges in present time. Today, folk song of north Shanxi is weakening, for the old folk artists have gone and youngers were immerged in movie songs, popular songs and school songs with the influence from age, education, environment and life experience and so on. They are no longer interested in folk song of north Shanxi. Although a smal part of young children have been born with good voice and also had some professional training, they only could sing some of classic songs of north Shanxi. There is nearly no inovation and development of folk songs of north Shanxi.According to the North Shanxi folk song's development momentum, along with the people entertaining fashion and the appreciation appeal multiplication's now society, the more literary and art workers starts to pay attention to the North Shanxi folk song. Some researchers only obtain from the folk song esthetic characteristic, to penetrate into the musicology domain, the literature and art domain, esthetics domain, with the aid in own work study platform, carries forward its style; Also has the researcher to express own viewpoint from North Shanxi folk song's some angle as the starting point, some discussed that the Yenan time, stage the North Shanxi folk song, some study from North Shanxi's folk custom phenomenon, but also some evolved the rule many times from a North Shanxi folk song's song, they studied the angle to be diverse, the analysis was thorough, but could not give the human overall one kind to folk song's sound feeling. In view of this, this article take the North Shanxi area's folk song as the object of study, how discusses better to grasp the North Shanxi folk song to sing the skill and the style, better enters the motherland by the time North Shanxi folk song everyone, lets China's each working people feel the North Shanxi folk song's charm once more. Besides the introduction and the conclusion, the full text is divided four parts, second, third chapter the key point which is this article studies.The first chapter:The North Shanxi folk song sings the style the formation reason. The natural environment to the people the influence is huge, the North Shanxi folk song is the specific region environment and the humanities, the history, the society, the space and time blends with the convergence one form. This article mainly from factors and so on geographical environment, historic tradition and social culture analyzes showed that these factors are affecting the North Shanxi folk song's style, the content and the social effect and the melody formation. North Shanxi is vast in territory, the vast territory with a sparse population, the canyon vertically and horizontally, frequently is the human who this Shan Neng sees that mountain, is actually unable to talk, therefore had "us to meet easily, chats the words were difficult" lyrics. Was precisely North Shanxi's geographical environment has decided native's production and the life, thus has affected the local folk song indirectly, widespread and the profound signature was ubiquitous, does not have time did not have; North Shanxi as the Shanxi famous historical city, the North Shanxi folk song has the glorious history and the cultural origin, in the long historic course, undergoes folk entertainer a lot of year unceasing screening and rich, the retention and the variation, until the feudal society, only then gradually grew including the work song, the ceremony song, the letter day has toured, literature styles and so on folk song, popular entertainments to mark the various seasonal festivals dance, to have the Loess Highlands history culture characteristic North Shanxi folk song in the true sense; Not only North Shanxi folk song geogen and historic tradition factor influence, moreover also receives the social culture and so on other factors the influence, such as folk custom custom, language factor and so on, the North Shanxi folk songs are the working people spirit, the thought that the sentimental crystallization, is companion who the North Shanxi people most are intimate with, is also the most direct reflection which the North Shanxi working people live.The second chapter:North Shanxi folk song's classification and style characteristic. The North Shanxi folk song literature style is widespread, mainly may divide into the worker's chant, the letter day to tour, the folk song, and the nursery song four broad headings. Believed the day to tour, the folk song and the worker's chant may say that was in the North Shanxi folk song most has representative the characteristic literature style. Believes the day to tour the song lyrics basic format to divide into the seven-syllable high and low sentence structure two bodies, touches the scenery to excite the emotions, to create extemporaneously, the lyrics exquisite, are vivid, are vivid; The music structure high and low sentence composition's single period, the structure is balanced and is clear; The melody development technique divides into echoes the type, to receive hands over the type and the expansion type three kinds; Believes the day to tour basically divides into the high-pitched tunes, the even cavity two kinds, today letter day You Yiwei in the North Shanxi lives of the people the essential one kind of expression expresses one's ideas is most directly simplest the most exquisite artistic form. The folk song and the Ming and Qing Dynasties are popular the city townspeople's literature "the new tunes", "the vulgar tune" has the blood relationship. It has the following characteristic: The content is complex, degree of fineness mixed Chen; The theme is rich, the life surface is broad; The song words and phrases type is diverse, melody rich standard. The folk song divides into the common folk song, the silk string folk song, the Yangko folk song, the custom folk song and recites the accent. The worker's chant is the human society first kind of poetry form, was also afterward one of all poetry sources. The work songs produce in the work, serves in the work, is "song of the weight lifting power", is "makes the flag", its melody, the rhythm, the makings, the style, the language as well as sing the form to need to change according to the work, thus causes the worker's chant music to be richly colorful, has formed certain types, for example the Yellow River boatman worker's chant, the punning worker's chant and the rock selection worker's chant and shout cow worker's chant and so on.The third chapter:The North Shanxi folk song sings main skill and style manifestation. The North Shanxi folk song is one in our country nationality art treasure house gorgeous rare and beautiful flowers, how to continue in the stage this precious national music inheritance to carry forward? The author thought that should in grasp its tonality and in the language characteristic foundation derives the style nutrition, from sings the skillful aspect to make the beneficial exploration and diligently. The even cavity sings the law to act according to the song register the change, suitable adjusts the genuine and fake sound's proportion; The direct equivalent sings the law to tighten the vocal cord, does not shake does not tremble, dynamics is balanced, forms the contrast with the vibrato; Glides sings the law to sing charmingly; The vibrato sings the law to need to utilize is very careful; Breaks the cavity to sing the law to sing clearly each note, really; The lining word lining cavity sings the law to be able. In addition, singer's feeling and the comprehension will also produce ten sing differently nine.The fourth chapter:North Shanxi folk song's inheritance and develops. The North Shanxi folk song was the same with other artistic form, has experienced a long production and the dissemination, was recording the historical vicissitude and wind and cloud fluctuation, was recording the North Shanxi earth local conditions and social customs and the working people happy, anger, the sorrow, happy. Has the national characteristic and the local characteristic, it only then has the possibility to accept for other nationalities, only then has the possibility to have the world significance. The North Shanxi folk song's cultural value, sings the present situation has no alternative but to let us ponder how it does inherit with the development question.In present study, in order to assure the singing style, the folk song of north Shanxi were studied in many views, e.g. region characteristic, folk custom culture, dialect and skills of singing by combination of folk custom culture, dialect and skills of singing, with understanding of singing style as master line.