Fushan Drums Research

Fushan drums is spread in most parts of fushan county a gongs folk music. Is an important branch of power and prestige gongs, drums at drum rack of a form of acting, playing Musical Instruments, including drums, gongs, cymbals. Playing style, passionate, thousandrous hooves across is the local people to express emotion, apply colours to a drawing atmosphere is a kind of folk art forms, are widely used in festival season, sacrifice etiquette, jan performances and other activities, is a popular art form. But so far haven’t anyone for system comprehensive study, the study of drums, most of the part is a brief description, more no one to a specific case to make a comprehensive research and study.This article selects fushan county town of xiangshui river Cheng Cun for investigation, which is divided into four chapters, the first chapter, stated the basic situation and the historical status of fushan drums survey, make the reader have a general understanding; The second chapter, for Musical Instruments, band, playing skills, performing forms, and command introduced classification, combined with the tongue, art practice and fieldwork, the basic features of this kind of drum and personality traits have a comprehensive understanding of; The third chapter, on the drums melody structure, rhythm and music developing techniques, repertoire, and has carried on the induction analysis notation, summarizes the drum rhythm patterns and tracks, of some reference value to similar style of study; The fourth chapter, using the method of ethnomusicology and literatures, the system summed up its distinctive artistic characteristics, try to use the theory of folklore, sociology, cultural anthropology, in reference to previous research results and theory basis, mining the rich folk custom and cultural connotation, especially from the sociology of culture function of drum set in detail, finally to fushan research drums up to a higher theoretical level, reveals the profound academic value.This article selected fushan county town of xiangshui river Cheng Cun for investigation, the instrument shape, form, such as playing skills, looking for a comprehensive research and discussed, and from the Angle of sociology, folklore, anthropology, mining of folk custom, cultural connotation, especially from the sociology of culture function of drum set in detail, finally looking forward to drums ascend to a higher theoretical level, reveals the profound academic value.