A study of the current situations of PingXian folk song in QingHai, China

Abstract

This research adopts qualitatide and interview methods with the objective were to: 1) To study the current situations of PingXian folk song. 2) To analyze the musical characteristics of PingXian folk song. The data were mainly collected from field work with the key inforants and presented in the descriptive analysis format.

The results are as follows: 1) Pingxian folk songs were born in 1929 and have been protected and inherited in Qinghai. They are often sung in Ping'an and other places in Qinghai, and are taught orally in primary schools in Qinghai. 2) At present, four types of Pingxian folk songs have professional records in composition and singing. Each singing style has its own characteristics. Among them, Fuzi and Zaqiang have improved singing styles with similar tunes; Xiaodian and Bei Gongqiang mainly talk about the love between men and women. In terms of lyrics, the lyrics of the four types of folk songs have clear characteristics. In terms of mode, the four types of flat-string folk songs all adopt the Chinese pentatonic mode. The four types of Pingxian folk songs have their own distinctive structural characteristics, among which Fuzi is the most typical.

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