Study Of Music In Hebei Province Sanhe Yanjiao Town Funeral Ceremony

We get many scholars in the study of funeral music culture, funeral ritual musicscholars in music has become an important research field.Sanhe Yanjiao town offuneral ritual music to better understand the unique local culture and customs,people’s outlook on life and values, to let people in modern society to re-examine thetraditional music culture of embodied social function, cultural value, the continuationof the national cultural heritage gene. This paper based on the field investigation,combined with the related literature and the article is divided into five parts:The first part is to sort out the present situation of the research of local funeralritual music;The second part is the case study of the funeral ceremony music; mainly fromthe basic situation of performances, music class members of the music class situationand time, music classes and class, music class, music class inheritance way ofeconomic income, repertoire were compared in detail;The third part is a detailed analysis of the music itself; the main detail analysisis carried out from the theme of the development of techniques and the musical formstructure, and the use of musical instruments;The fourth part is the analysis of the funeral ceremony of the social function ofmusic;The fifth part is the analysis of the funeral music inheritance pattern;Through the above study found today in the town of Yanjiao funeral ceremonystill retains the stylized, folk traditional pattern, especially in funeral ritual musicfully reflects the local people ’s outlook on life and values.