A Study On The Music Of The Funeral Rites Of The Bai In Fengxiang

Eryuan is a county of Yunnan province Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture,in northern Dali,at the source of Erhai,named Eryuan,is a Bai based county.Fengxiang,in the northwest of Er yuan County,the town of phoenix feather,to the Midwest at Feng Yu village,rich and colorful music and dance activities with local characteristics the folk ceremony reflects Eryuan Fengxi ang village of Fengxiang local customs and practices,including the funeral ceremony as an im portant stage in life etiquette,has been praised by the local people's attention,it is a kind of cul tural and historical features of the traditional custom of people formed in the long life.Playing suona,Taoism rhyme cavity,Dongjing music with the bench play music,and the local funeral ceremony,making it an important part of local culture.From the funeral funeral ceremony can be seen in the music played in the ceremony for the funeral from sound Le,local villagers can recognize the values and view of life and death.This article is divided into four chapters,the first chapter through the literature and the interviews with the local people to comb the cultural context of fengxiang village.The second chapter to a specific case to show fengxiang village of existing funeral ceremonies,and combined with the ritual participants and onlookers interviews,to think about the meaning of the ceremony.The third chapter combines the phenomenon of the second chapter describes analysis of funeral music,and draw rite and music as well as the relationship between music and people chart,intuitive show hidden in the ritual music of between people,between people and ghosts and gods,the link between man and nature.Integrated in the first three chapter of progressive type of arrangement and analysis,the fourth chapter in fengxiang village based on the field survey of funeral ritual music culture,from the Angle of ethnomusicology,the anthropology of art,art of fengxiang village funeral music music style is summarized,to explore the fengxiang village bai funeral ritual music culture background,namely the funeral music as well as the cultural function of religious factors.