A Comparative Study On The Musical Features Of Shandong Liuqin Opera And Shandong Drum

Chinese folk music in five categories: folk songs, dance music, rap music,folk instrumental music and opera music is to become the main vein of traditionalChinese art and culture.However, the Chinese music culture treasures---Chinese opera music and five categories formed the earliest dance music,its relationship is inseparable: the original dance after several years ofdevelopment, rheology, there are a large part has formed Chinese opera and folkdance two categories of folk art forms. However, this paper compares the hub ofShandong and Shandong Liuqin play music in two forms of art, finding the two hasorigin relations. It also map out development of the Chinese Opera and Chinesefolk dance is consistent,further reflecting the traditional music as a whole isabsorbing and interacting with each other to promote development.Liuqin Opera as a valuable asset Qilu folk music, is one of the major localopera in Shandong Province. It belongs to the elbow drum sub-cavity system,originated in the folk tune, experiencing folk ditty-rap-drama process andabsorbing nutrients sister arts, more blending with local folk songs, operaticsinging, dance.Drum music is also well-known folk filled in Shandong wealth, singing anddancing performances, which is the parent of many operatic music, its richmelodies, straightforward lyrics, lively melody, distinct syllables, more isabsorbed by many opera, drawing on, and won the crowd’s favorite.This paper using the method ontology, literature research, musicologyresearch, comparative research method and other methods of Shandong music ofliuqin Opera and Shandong flower drum of the comparative study.According to theinformation author gathered, and reading, researching, organizing o these datafound that although the research of liuqin opera and the flower drum is few,but for both its musical drama associated research there is still a blank area, soI strive to Liuqin drama based on previous studies and hubs respectively, analysising, organizing, researching the both,to find out the similarities betweenthe two and the different points. Among them, the same point performance in theuse of cavity, word, interval and so on, finding the further development of Liuqindrama is based on the hub; differences in singing tune, mode, tonality, dialect tonecontours and lyrics format, etc,discovering though both have similarities but eachhas its own characteristics.The main content of this paper is divided into five parts:The first part: introduction,including the origin of the research topic, thecurrent research status of Liuqin drama and drum music, the purpose andsignificance of this study, as well as the author on the basis of previous studies andstrive to make breakthroughs.The second part: the author uses the method of music history and musiccommunication to define the origin of Liuqin drama and dance, as well as analyzethe relationship between the origin.The third part: firstly, in the comparative study of Shandong drama andShandong drum music singing, the author respectively compares the pullchamber, lining word, interval, melody, tonality and so on, by comparison, findingthe similarities and differences, indicating that both absorb and fuse with eachother while maintaining their own characteristics,which is also one of thebreakthrough.Secondly, in the Shandong drama and Shandong drum music lyricscomparative study, the author makes the comparison from productions, dialect andthe libretto libretto format, and conduct the academic exploration, it is also thesecond breakthrough point of this article.The fourth part: the structure of Shandong drama and Shandong drum musiccomparative study, the author discusses the former scholars carried on the newrich and supplement, respectively from the two aspects of integral structure andaria structure to make the comparison, by comparison, concluding that the two areinherit and common development, this is the breakthrough point of this paper ofthe three. The fifth part: in the aspect of the inheritance and development of Shandongdrama and Shandong drum music, the author talks about the problems with theShandong drama and Shandong drum music that they faces, as well as thedevelopment and innovation of the future. And calls for the society to protectexisting opera, mining disappear opera,, to further protect non-materialculture of the country to make tiny force.