The Diversified Embodiment Of Parallelism In Mongolian Ballad

This thesis is based on three genres in collection of Chinese folk music, Inner Mongolian volume, namely Chaolindao, Urtin Duu and short tone. By analyzing the music forms, I study the diversified usage of parallelism in Mongolian ballad systematically.Parallelism is the basic norm of Parallel Harmony used in composing a piece of melody. Consisted of symmetry, contract and correspondence, it embodies the constitutive principles between constructions and within constructions. In my thesis, I’m going to concentrate on four main structures to analyze, classify, and synthesize the Parallelism at large with three basic genres.Those four main structures refer to the harmony in cadences of melodies tonal logic, musical mode and tonality, and structure of sentence span. The harmony in cadences of melodies consists of forth and fifth correspondence (including correspondence between tonic and dominant and correspondence between tonic and subdominant), none forth and fifth correspondence (including coloristic correspondence, correspondence within the same rhythm and how low melody corresponds with high melody in the same rhythm). Anyone of the four kinds is based on the principles of harmony in cadences of melodies. Similar to the half cadences and perfect cadences in western music, they reflect the musical mode and tonality of sentences and paragraphs as well as the contradictions between balance and conflict, stability and instability, open and close. The harmony in cadences of melodies is the essence of Parallelism. And Tonal logic will be analyzed in dimensions of tone development (geminating,anadiplosis, melodic sequence without changing keys, melodic sequence with changing keys, intersecting, inclusio, reversing, contrasting and so on), musical mode and tonality, and structure of sentence span.To conclude, Parallelism is shared by all kinds of Mongolian ballads as a common structure. And despite its commonality, in different genres of ballads, there exists diversity. Highly programmed common mode can be performed by varieties of ways. Thus, Parallelism and its diversified embodiment are the core features of Mongolian ballad.