Title: A Tentative Analysis of the Types of Folk Songs in Zunyi and Their Characteristics
Abstract:With a long history as well as a long cultural origin,the folk song in Zunyi,one of the important intangible cultural heritages in the northern part of Guizhou,is mainly distributed in such areas as D...With a long history as well as a long cultural origin,the folk song in Zunyi,one of the important intangible cultural heritages in the northern part of Guizhou,is mainly distributed in such areas as Daloushan,Wujiang river basin,and Chishui river basin.The folk songs can fall into mountain song,working song,canzonet,singing dancing and paddy song,which take two three-tone series based on little rhymes as the major melody;and the rhythms are legion,some being short-first-long-later-typed and some being free.The structure of libretto,featured by the combination of seven-character sentence,five-character sentence and the form of long-cum-short sentence,is based on solo,which is not only supplemented by chorus in harmony with the leading singer but accompanied by the form of antiphonal singing.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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