Study On The Bronze Drum Music Of The Zhangjiao Miao Nationality In Southeast Guizhou

As a representative symbol of Zhang'ao Miao's village in southeast Guizhou province,bronze drums music is a kind of widespread folk music style that contains the living environment,customs,habits,cultural heritage,production and life and emotional factors of Miao people.It is an essential part and a spiritual presentation of the Miao people's daily life in Zhang'ao village.In the process of musical development in our country,traditional minorities' culture is facing the great challenge of modern society,some cultural phenomenon has gradually faded or disappeared,thus,their survival and development is a problem to be solved at present,they need to be protected and supported.Therefore,this article tried to research the Miao's bronze drums music in Zhang'ao village of Guizhou province to push the protection,inheritance and development of the minority cultural heritage.This paper began with the natural environment and custom of Miao that connected with the bronze drum music,and combined theories and methods like ethnomusicology,music anthropology,musicology,anthropology,ethnology in the basis of times of fieldwork and information searching,tried to analyze and explain the bronze music in many respects,such as its history,current situation,morphological characteristics,change and succession,etc.Generally speaking,in this paper,Miao's bronze drums music research of Zhang'ao village in Guizhou province mainly covered the following contents:First of all,the introduction part expounded the reasons for writing and significance of this article,combed the domestic of Miao's bronze drums music in Zhang'ao village and the present situation of the research on bronze drums music,and gave a directions to the research methods have been used.The first chapter made an introduction of the natural environment and custom of Miao that connected with the bronze drum music.The natural environment mainly included the climate,landscape,vegetation,height above sea level,position,rainfall and crops.Human environment mainly introduced the history,minorities,faith,and the basic necessities of life in this village.The second chapter based all of history,types and status of bronze drum to analyze and illustrate the origin,the original form,classification,the spreading,using customs,performance form and instrument type system of bronze drums.The third chapter mainly described Miao's bronze drums music form in Zhang'ao village,based on its function,the occasions of performance,content of the performance and its music form that included its sound,rhythm and drum spectrum to analyze and explore its Artistic features.The fourth chapter mainly discussed the inheritance,changing and future prospects of Miao's bronze drums music in Zhang'ao village.Expounded from the inheritor,inherit environment and methods of inheriting.Put forward ideas on necessity and measure of inheriting,and also gave the prospect of brozen drums‘ future.At last,this paper was summarized in conclusion part.