Study On The Traditional Opera Shengqiang (Voice And Tune) Of China Han Nationality

The author had looked up and studied the available treatises and works about the research on the Chinese traditional opera from 1900 to 2004, visited and exchanged views with other scholars, and investigated and researched the collected materials and information as much as possible. However, it is found that there was no published works that systematically integrated and sorted out the traditional opera shengqiang (voice and tune) based on musicology and that systematically sorted the traditional opera shengqiang with the available the Chinese national music integration corpuses. This shows to the author that there is a immense space left for the study and research of this subject.The research work of this dissertation is based upon the Chinese Traditional Opera Music Integration. The author gives the exposition and argumentation about the application and concept of the word shengqiang, considering the shengqiang included in the corpuses with their real status and combining all kinds of text information. Taking the music itself as the research object, and considering also the historical and objective parameter, the dissertation is designated to put forward some suggestions in the research on this subject of systematically sorting out today's existing traditional opera shengqiang.The dissertation presents such a guiding principle as "common ancestry, tune succession, changing in application but evolving from origin " to limit shengqiang. It can be explained as follows.Firstly, the common characteristics in music attribute from the view of musicology study are emphasized. According to the objective regulation of "tune succession", the shengqiang possessing the close musical style are combined, and those with different style are separated. Secondly, the dissertation only deals with those shengqiang that play important roles in the music of some kinds of traditional operas. Thirdly, for the shengqiang that stands the secondary position in the music of traditional operas, because of their very large namber so ts to need huge work load, the author has left them behind for the present and will make further research in the future. Finally, it is too weak for one person to give a shake in such a short-term for so many traditional opera types and the exceedingly complicated situation of shengqiang in China. Therefore, the dissertation only puts forward a pilot idea and explores only parts of the traditional opera types. It is just like "a brick" and is cast here just for attracting the more valuable jade. The author will make further and deeper research in this specialized area in her future study.In the light of the recorded fact about the major shengqiang in the Chinese Traditional Opera Music Integration, and following the objective laws of the configuration and structure of the traditional opera music, the traditional opera shengqiang can be classified into three main types, that is, the nationally spreading shengqiang, the regionally spreading shengqiang and the non-spreading ones, which can further be divided into the colony shengqiang and the monomer shengqiang.