The Musical Research Of Korean Ritual Dance Music

Korean is a big nation among China's minorities, also has its own independent written language system.Korean folk song is the inexhaustible source and inspiration for Korean music culture, so that to learn and study a nation's folk song has its unreplacable effect to learn the nation's music culture compared with other methods. Korean folk song produced by kinds of life ceremony, therefore, studying Korean ritual song and dance is a vital channel to learn Korean music culture. By studying the ritual singing and dancing music of Korea, we understand the development height of Korean music culture and more clearly understand the artistic connotations of Korean singing and dancing music. To devote greater efforts to studying the Korean music, it is quite important to deeply understand the historic position and role of folk music in the formation of Chinese music. Folk music is the core of Chinese music. Only by studying the folk music and developing the folk music culture, can Chinese music have a much stable position in the music of the world. In Chapter One, it focuses on studying the origin and development of China's Korean ritual singing and dancing music. By referring to the method dividing the history of Korean music, China's Korean singing and dancing music can be divided into three stages: initial music entering China, Music in the early period of China and new music after reform and opening up.The second chapter, by using the theory of musicology, classified service content,making morphological description to the Korean ritual dance music, and outline its profile.The third chapter, based on the theory of vocal music art aesthetics combined with the folk song, combing the Korean ritual dance music's charcteristics, like structure mode rhythm and so on, meanwhile analysing its sing Feature.Chapter four. mainly state the value of Korean ritual dance music from its social func-tion viewpoint. Combined with concrete cases of field investigation, it analyzes and summarizes the sociality, instruction and cultural entertainment functions of Korean ritual singing and dancing music, and also the practical significance.