The Mongolian Style Bamboo Flute Music Creative Research

Bamboo flute, with its strong ethnic characteristics, has become one of the most representative and oldest wind musical instruments found so far in China. The emergence of bone flutes has not only contributed to the cultural development of the music of flutes, but also played an important role in the history of Chinese ancient music. It is the joint efforts made by the music lovers in all times that enable us enjoy the rich culture of flute music.Mongolian music, as an essential component of Chinese ethnic music, has made the bamboo flute in this style become a significant branch of different styles of the ethnic music. Conducting a research on the music of bamboo flute in a Mongolian style is of great significance and meaningful in the way that it can help to inherit and transmit Mongolian music, or even the ethnic minorities’ music in a larger sense. On the basis of the development of Mongolian music and the culture of bamboo flute in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this thesis aims to take the Mongolian-style music composition of bamboo flute as the research focus. The whole thesis is mainly composed of four chapters with the current situation of the music composition of bamboo flute, the characteristics of the composition of tune, the structure of music genre, the features of the accompaniment of music and some other related aspects to be discussed.In the first chapter, the author of this thesis will briefly summarize the general situation of the Mongolian-style music composition of bamboo flute through introducing the background, the group of music creation and the artistic value of bamboo flute in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. The second and third chapter will discuss the characteristics of the morphology of Mongolian-style music of bamboo flute through the following two aspects respectively: the characteristics of the morphology of melody and the structure of music genre. Through the analysis of several pieces of music scores of bamboo flute in a Mongolian style, this thesis will make an elaboration in terms of the creation of melody and the structure of music with various genres. In the fourth chapter, by taking the accompaniment form of two types of common bamboo flute as the argument, this thesis will discuss the longitudinal and multi-tonal music composing model of the theme and accompaniment parts of bamboo flute melody. In the conclusion part, the author will express some ideas on the inheritance and innovation of Mongolian music.Since the 20 th century, a new generation of composers have created many extraordinary pieces of bamboo flute solos by adopting both traditional and modern techniques of composing. Although the new creation of Mongolian-style bamboo flute music is limited in number, many bamboo flute performers and composers have consciously absorbed and made use of the Mongolian traditional tune to make it merge with their own music creations. Therefore, it is understandable that the enduring and unique properties of music elements in a Mongolian style lie in its long history and the ductility of culture and art.