| Qin'an located in the downriver area of Cucurbit River which is the branch of Wei River (Wei River is an anabranch of Yellow River), in the north of Tianshui city southeast Gansu province. In Qin'an area there are lots of mountains and few of plains, ditches and ravines mixed each other, and she also has a long history. Qin'an was named Chengji during antiquity time, and depended on history record, the primogenitor of human-being Fuxi Emperor and Wa Regina were born in Qin'an, so people always call Qin'an as "FUXI EMPEROR HOMETOWN AND WA REGINA VILLAGE". There are plenty of history sites and personalities in Qin'an County. The ditty of Qin'an was just born and came down in this place which has profound culture details. Laodiao among the ditty of Qin'an is their own folk performing arts. The traffic in Qin'an is not very convenient, so Laodiao got few influence from the external music, it retained its' original style and character at all time.At present, the articles and literatures that we can read were mainly collecting and trimming the names of the tunes and librettos in Laodiao, those books lacked researching on the librettos of the names of the tunes, cadence and time, format of tonality and the method of cantus.There are four parts in this discourse. The first part is the brief of Qin'an ditty, in this part I will talk about the form and the development,actuality and actors of Qin'an ditty, and I'll also classify the names of the tunes in Laodiao; The second part I'll research librettos in Laodiao, and giving deferent conclusions to word format and sentence format from their characters in the names of the tunes; The third part is researching on rough character of the names of the tunes music in Laodiao, I do a detailed research from five parts: frame of aria, accompaniment, time cadence, cantus character, format of melody, and I do a conclusion too. So we can roundly understand the names of the tunes music in Laodiao; The forth part is the last part, in this part I will do some analysis and research in primary the names of the tunes in Laodiao. I collected above ten the names of the tunes of Qin'an ditties which was the most frequency used in Qin'an ditty, and give these the names of the tunes a rough analysis, from this analysis we can search after its artistic orderliness, and also grasp its developing venation. I hope these all things can make a nicer base and a wonderful future for it, and give a powerfully academic gist to develop and protect this characteristic and nonmatenal bequest. |