A Survey Of Singing Styles And Forms' Characteristics Of Dong Minority Big Song

Dong Minority Big Song, as the outstanding representative of Chinese folk music, is a kind of minority folk music systematically studied by experts and scholars in music field at relatively early times. It is also a folk choral variety, which made its early entrance into professional academies of music as a form of academic performance. For many years, the singing group of Dong Minority Big Song has brought its performance all over the world, drawing the attention of musicians around the world to its wonderful singing, attractive voice and delicate effect by multi-voice parts. Its unique singing forms and harmony of multi-voice parts are the key to marking its place in the circle of world folk music. What are mentioned above are the very reasons that I study Dong Minority Big Song from the perspective of vocality.This thesis is intended to reveal that Dong Minority Big Song plays an indelible part in the continuation of Dong Minority's culture by analyzing the singing styles of Dong Minority Big Song in depth, combined with the analysis of main music production techniques, The wonderful performance of singing group serves as an importance way to gaining insightinto the profound cultural connotation of Dong Minority. The author of this thesis holds that in order to preserve the traditional culture of Dong Minority Big Song, the training mechanism of singing group should be passed down from generation to generation. By means of groundwork, todag, the singing styles of Big Song should be maintained. This thesis , nevertheless, is just a piece of work paving the way for further focus and reflection upon folk music.