Auspicious Flower Bed

The flower bed, is a kind of noisy music played before the first positive play in order to attract the villagers to the theatre every time when Wu Combo reaches a new venue, each tune presiding with instruments taking turns to play, which reveals a technical level of the combo and their strength, and has gradually become a relatively independent large national instrumental music divertimento. In this article, we will have to study the flower bed, as a kind of music phenomena, attach attention to the instrumental and the social groups in the Wu Opera---the flower bed, from the different perspectives of history, society, culture and so on, and make an integrated study based on the analysis to the internal structure. Then, at the beginning of the origin and formation of the flower bed, we will make a discussion on these five aspects-----the historical origin and formation, the place of current performance and the use of the environment, the basic characteristics of band compilation and use of the instruments, musical form analysis in the flower bed, and the function and value of the flower bed. Firstly, the historical origin and formation:we mainly summarizes the historical track of the flower bed, and the question that the flower bed is how to form is explained in the view of the time and space of diachronic, synchronic and the unification of diachronic and synchronic:diachronic----according to the time, summarize various characteristics of the tune of Wu Opera and each tune of instrumental accompaniment in order to explore the origin and development of the flower bed; synchronic---according to the formation from the independent class to trine class and the composite half class, discuss the formation of this style with more spoken alarm music style.Secondly, the place of current performance and the use of the environment mainly through field investigation method, we will discuss the current use of places in the flower bed and where the alarm song mainly applies to. Thirdly, the basic characteristics of band compilation and use of the instruments:the orchestra make a diachronic repeat mainly from the orchestra lasted inheritance and the organization of modern instruments and reflect the problems existing in today’s organization of modern instruments to the lateral expansion. Also, this chapter makes a discussion of the function of civil and military filed of the Wu Opera and fully describes the basic characteristics of the musical instruments used. Fourthly, musical form analysis in the flower bed:based on the genre and form of the traditional music creation and performance,applied to musical analysis on the flower bed,this chapter does a research on the issue of the version of classic configuration,mode and tonality,musical structure, melody In addition, different versions as the starting point,this chapter tries to figure out the traditional music heritage issues faced to the spread and development of this music. Lastly, the function and value of the flower bed:through making an explanation of the theory of inductive and process, we will discuss how the flower bed develop from the act of opera before the stage to an independent music, give a lesson to the creation and development of national music, and is widely used in folk activities.Besides, we can tap the artistic function and value of Wu Opera on the spread of Wu Opera and its effects of Jinhua township in the cultural life of the community residents.