Guangrao Zaomu Bangzi Random Music Research

Zaomugangziluantan,commonly known as "Zabadiao",is a kind of traditional music combining folk songs and Quyi that has been popular in Guangrao area,centered in Dawangxi Village,Dawang Town,since the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.Its performance is composed of vocal singing and instrumental accompaniment,among which vocal singing has different ways of solo,duet,rotation and unison.Accompaniment is composed of Musical Instruments such as zither,dulcimer,zither,erhu,bamboo flute,and other instruments,as well as sounds derived from dishes,bells,bowls and other living instruments,and percussion instruments such as jujube wooden clappers and wooden fish.Vocal and instrumental music share the main melody,percussion instrument accompaniment more improvised.In September 2009,Zaomugangziluantan was listed in the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects in Shandong Province.At present,the research on Zaomugangziluantan mainly focuses on history and accompaniment instruments,and the research on its music is still weak.Through field work,a more comprehensive collection of Zaomugangziluantan existing repertoire and other first-hand information.Then the music morphology is studied by the method of music morphology analysis.Firstly,the number of Qupai in the existing tracks is counted and classified.By analyzing the repetition rate,the position of the phrase(or section)in Qupai and the composition of the backbone tone,the core tune sentence(or section)of each Qupai is found.According to each cavity sentence(or cavity segment)of the backbone structure classification;After the classification,the author finds out the simplest parent of the rotation method of each kind of cavity sentence(or cavity segment)and further simplifies it,and obtains the nuclear cavity.According to the statistics,the nuclear cavity of Zaomugangziluantan is mainly narrow and occasionally wide.This shows that Zaomugangziluantan has the regional musical characteristics of both southern and northern tones.The melodic development techniques of Zaomugangziluantan are mainly repetition,contrast and expansion.These melodic development techniques bring together the musical materials from all over the world to form a song with unified characteristics,which endows the music of different regions with the identity after successive generations.Its structure is also a combination of double-sentence,four-sentence,five-sentence and multi-sentence forms.Most of the modes are hexatonic mode,the next is pentatonic mode,and the next is seven-tone mode.Zhi mode is the most common,followed by Gong mode,Shang mode and Yu mode are rare,and Angle mode has not been found yet.These musical forms show that Zaomugangziluantan has a variety of local folk songs music regional characteristics.Through the preliminary study,it is concluded that there are two reasons for the regional style characteristics.One is the historical environment in which the popular songs of Ming and Qing Dynasties flourished.Second,Guangrao's unique local music and cultural ecological environment,namely,the convenient traffic conditions brought by Le 'an Ancient Guan Road and the convergence of north and south cultures brought by the wave of immigrants.Guangrao is located in the northeastern part of the mountain,and is a typical northern county.It seems to be isolated,but it was an important post entrance of the ancient official road of Yue 'an in the Qing Dynasty and before that,and it is the only way to the capital from the southeast region.By virtue of superior cultural and ecological environment,Zaomugangziluantan was conceived and developed.