Dalinzhen Study Of Funeral Music

This thesis chooses funeral activities in Dalin Town as the object of study. The author conducted anintense research on the procedure, the function and the protection and inheritance of the funeral music inDalin Town, by using the musical anthropology as the main research methods to carry out the field work,taking the funeral procedures as the main clue, and then show the funeral customs of Dalin Town toeveryone.This thesis divides into three chapters:In the first chapter, the thesis introduces the general information of the funeral music in Dalin Townthrough studying and recording the funeral procedures of Dalin Town in the field and analyse the funeralmusic itself. The funeral ceremony totally contains21procedures, and the funeral music consists of twoparts: the part of vocal music and the part of instrumental music.The second chapter deals with the comprehensive study on the funeral music in Dalin Town andfunctional analysis of funeral music along with it. This chapter also generalizes five main functions offuneral music from the perspective of sociology and folklore, they are signal transmission, approaching toGod, entertaining the guest, education and expressing the emotion.In the third chapter, through interviews and surveys with the Taoist funeral priest in Dalin Town andthe living and operation conditions of Taoist funeral band, the author shows his worry about the inheritanceand development of the funeral music in Dalin Town, and then puts forward some suggestions.