Research On Jiacang Percussion Instrument

The Jiacang percussion is a local traditional folk gong music,which is the crystallization of the wisdom of the people living in the Rizhao area of southeast coast of China,and its unique artistic style and multi-source musical characteristics have become an important part of Shandong gong and drum music.At present,the discussion on Jiacang percussion mainly involves the inheritance protection of the school,and lacks an in-depth study of its musical form.Through several field surveys,the author has obtained rich first-hand information,and combed through the historical progress and current situation of the percussion music of the Jiacang,exploring the close relationship between its formation and the local natural geography,economic type and social culture,and at the same time,identifying the existing traditional repertoire.The article summarizes the common features of the music by analyzing the musical forms of the representative repertoire of the Jiacang percussion,and explores the connections and differences between the gong and other regions by using comparative studies.Research found that: the first type of "Jin Qiu Liang" for the folk series of gong and drum music,its rhythm to "one,three,five,seven,nine" five bytes as the basic unit,the whole song based on this,through nine different series of gong and drum points to catty conversion mnemonics in numerical order to group music.It is a cyclic piece composed of the introduction of the jumping phrase of the counting type,sixteen different phrases of the counting type,the bolts of the jumping phrase of the counting type and the fins of the flat phrase of the counting type.After comparing and analyzing Rizhao Jiacang "Jin Qiu Liang" and Shanxi Changzhi "catty scales song",it proves that they belong to the same origin of gong and drum music;the second type of "Lian cheng spectrum" is a mixed type of gong and drum music.In the microscopic rhythm,it mainly consists of the basic bytes "one,three,five,seven" and byte variants "two,six,ten" and the less common nine bytes and eleven bytes.The macroscopic gong and drum section structure is composed of several folk gong and drum phrases and Beijing opera gong and drum music rhythmic elements.After comparing the "Lian Cheng spectrum" with the "Niu Si","Yin Luo" and "Chou Tou" of the Beijing opera gong and drum music,we find that the "Lian Cheng spectrum" does borrow the core rhythmic elements from the Beijing opera gong and drum music tune.Finally,combining the history and current situation,musical characteristics,local customs,and human aesthetics,we conclude that the Jiacang percussion has the social functions of education for fun,welcoming marriage and accompanying the opera troupe,and clarify the cultural connotation of its rhythmic array,reflecting the cultural connotation of the natural geographical environment and cultural exchange and its relationship with traditional folk culture.