Research On Song Dynasty City Music In Music Historical Materials

Song Dynasty is an extremely important historical period in the development of ancient Chinese music.Its relaxed political environment,rapidly developing commercial culture and rapidly rising urban culture all affected people's aesthetic standards and value orientation.At the same time,the music culture of Song Dynasty in such environment founded its unique development model: the mainstream of the music turned from the palace to folk and the audience tend to be folk people.Compared with the glory and rigorous court music in the tang dynasty,the content of the town music which is popular in Song Dynasty is more rich and more close to the people's daily life.Its form is also more diverse.Based on the written historical materials about music in Song Dynasty recorded in the literary sketches.It can be found that in the Song Dynasty with a developed commodity economy,music became a high-quality choice for people's daily consumption.It is also because of the characteristics of music commercialization in this period that many secularized and diversified works catering to the audience's aesthetic appreciation emerged.With the gradual prosperity of professional places for music culture communication,such as Wazi and Goulan.The way for artists to make a living with their skills gradually became the mainstream.The functions of music culture such as entertaining people,self-entertainment and enlightenment were also shown in this period.More professional cultural art forms and works emerged continuously.Zaju,Puppet drama,Ying xi,Zhugong tune,Changzhuan…… Many forms of music in this period,which is combined with the "vulgar" cultural characteristics of the Song Dynasty,have enriched the content of tune music in the Song Dynasty and also have gotten the favor of the court music.It had a profound influence both on the development trend of music,and the spread and development of music culture.