A Comparative Study On The Polyphonic Folk Song Of The South And North Minorities

In this paper from the perspective of cultural anthropology, active in both the north and the south of multi-tone folk songs of dong ethnic minority "big song" compared with Mongolian "breathe" as the research object. Music,as a part of the national culture,as a medium in its unique way to express and convey among human emotions. Its ontology is not only the notes and technical level of the single music elements such as melody,and at the same time under the "music is a cultural body behavior,social behavior,such as speech act assembled into a common product" [Alan merial's "in the anthropology of music. People's music publishing house. 2010.]. Anthropology is one of many disciplines, its characteristic is for the purpose of the study of human origins and evolution of ancient and modern people and their way of life and production. Will people as a biological system of the body to study anthropology and people will be considered a cultural anthropology to study social and cultural products, are the two big branches [WuGuoDong overview of ethnomusicology.Standing in ethnology, sociology, cultural anthropology on the shoulders of many subjects such as ethnology, linguistics, overlooking the natural and human behavior and activity, an all-encompassing,panoramic view. "Comparative musicology" its real connotation from the "comparative" two characters can peep out, similar to compare different national total of music form, but in comparison under different cultural background as the basis. Famous national music historian nettle in their writings have emphasized ethnomusicology two ideas: one, with social scientists to look at the music, the second,using comparative study from the point of view of the world music [nettle present ethnomusicology.Music study, always cannot leave the culture context. Therefore, in the context of cultural background,will compare research method as the basic means of subject research. As the dong song "big" and the cause of Mongolian "shout" similarities and differences do an in-depth analysis, in order to better understand and master the research methods of ethnomusicology. The full text is divided into four parts:first, introduction; Second, dong and Mongolian and its overview of multi-tone music; Third, under the perspective of cultural anthropology "songs", and the comparison of "shout" causes; Fourth, the inheritance and protection of the intangible cultural heritage.