Study Of The Bai Jingyun Drums Art

Jingyun Drum, story-telling in Beijing dialect with drum accompaniment was formed between late 19th and early 20th century was evolved from board drum in Hejian, Hebei Province. Records indicate that board drum entered Beijing for at least two hundred years. Board drum was called“timid drum”because of its strong Hebei accent. In the late 19th, the board drum started its evolving under the bold reform by the first generation of the Beijing-Tianjin board drum artist.The development of JingYun Drum is relatively complete. It has a distinguishing status in the in Chinese traditional arts. It has its own special charm and beauty with many different styles. The main styles are: Zhang (XiaoXuan), Liu (Baoquan), Bai (Yunpeng), Bai(Fengming) (or the younger Bai Style) and Luo (Yusheng) Style. Among them, Zhang (Xiaoxuan) style disappeared when it passed to the second generation.Through years of artistic practice, the author studied singing Bai Style Jingyun Drum and obtained deep understanding of its artistic rules as well as its inheriting way. The author concludes the practicing process into theory and analysis existing data into graphics. Then from the perspective of morphology and history, the author vertically and horizontally compared the melody, measure in traditional Chinese music, aria and accompaniment: horizontally analysis the difference of Bai Style Jingyun Drum and other JingYun Styles; vertically analysis the inheritance of Bai Style Jingyun Drum of the four generation.Further studies characteristics of the aroma, phonating and performance and explores root cause of the form and spreading of this art style. It also analysis the contributions of Bai Style Jingyun drum in the history of development of Jingyun Drum.Through the study above, the author tries to clarifyof the multilayer progression between theory and practice to provide a new perspective to the study of drum music and provide a theoretical support for the development of drum music, hoping to provide the traditional art form more modern contents.