The Analysis of Yugu Folk Song in Sunan County, Gansu Province, China

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) Investigates the history and development of Yugu nationality in Sunan County Gansu Province, China. 2) Analyze Music in Yugu nationality in Sunan County, Gansu Province, China. 3) Explore the Way to Promote and Preservation the Yugu Music Culture of Yugu Nationality in Sunan County, Gansu Province, China. Based on the literature of this study and the data of fieldwork, the current situation of Yugu folk songs is summarized, and the following conclusions are finally drawn:

1. The origin of the Yugu people is a new ethnic community formed by the fusion of the ancient Uighurs and the ancient Mongolian people, and to this day they still speak the Turkic and Mongolian languages of the Altaic language family. Due to the hundreds of years of war and eastward migration history in the history of the Yugu people, the Yugu script has long been lost,Yugu folk songs play a very important role in its cultural inheritance, and it is the mixed and blended multi-ethnic groups in history that make Yugu folk songs very unique and charming. and the Yugu people also have special feelings for the folk songs of their own ethnic groups. Yugu folk songs can be divided into four categories according to region, theme, genre, and function, but at the same time, some of them are intertwined.

2. Analysis of Yugu music, from interviewing folk singers' singing to consulting video data, researchers collected and translated a large number of musical scores, from which they analyzed the lyrics, modes, melodies, rhythms, singing styles and other characteristics of Yugu music. The musical style of Yugu folk songs is divided into Eastern Yugu Folk Songs and Western Yugu Folk Songs influenced by different regional and cultural environments. Folk songs in the eastern region have the characteristics of roughness, boldness and unrestrained, and the tone is between the Mongolian patriarchal tune and the short tone, which is similar to the Mongolian folk song; The folk songs of the western region are gentle, peaceful and deep, inheriting the tradition of western Uighur folk songs. The musical structure of Yugu folk songs basically belongs to a piece of body, most of which have very short melodies and are composed of two or more musical sentences. The new folk songs have both inherited and innovated on the basis of traditional folk songs.

3. From the perspective of the protection of the inheritance of Yugu folk songs,there are still many aspects of the problem, under the national appeal to the intangible cultural heritage, the government has also had certain improvement measures, but it is far from enough, it is also necessary to increase and improve the protection mechanism of the inheritors, while excavating and cultivating national music talents, starting from the roots, horizontal expansion, in order to effectively pass on the Yugu folk songs.

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