tracks. Tang and Song which contains music tracks with the same name as part of Daqu of the Tang Dynasty, Tang and Song Yan songs, etc., since not clear namin nascent musical band configuration, show some of the original features. There are now commonly used in tracks "drum piece", "bar fight child", "drawing order", "set of words," "Southern word", "Qu broken", "miscellaneous song" and so on. Xi'an drum music is an important ancient relics of our country, it has a unique, complex body of music, feature-rich music sinks and a large number of mass spectra tracks.

Xi'an drum music, ancient music, also known as Chang'an, Xi'an ancient music. After born out of the Tang Yan Yue, the court and into the music, and gradually flows into the folk drumming Xi'an, after digging a large number of cultural workers, rescue, protection, experienced a difficult and lengthy application process, recently became a world-class non-material cultural heritage.

Xi'an drum music, ever discovered in our country and save one of the most complete large-scale folk musical genres, born out of the Tang Yan Yue, the court and into the music, with the court musicians in exile during the An Lushan Rebellion flows folk. Tracing its history, in terms of structure, sheet music, song title, the use of musical instruments and other analysis, and Yanyue in the Tang Daqu inextricably linked, according to the analysis of the study data, it is possible to Xi'an drum music from the Tang, Song Xing to play yuan, Ming and Qing Sheng, after thousands of years of practice and development, especially in the Ming and Qing since the influence of opera music, Ding gradually formed a complete set of large-scale national classical music forms. Changan drumming has preserved the most traditional drum playing form, structure, musical instruments, tunes and spectral type.

Today each musical score Changan drumming community use, is still the ancient half-word spectrum, are all hand-written biography of this, still retains pass this Ming Dynasty. Some notes, the same as the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes excavated Tang music. Twenty-eight years of Qing Emperor Qianlong existing spectrum Xi'an drum music hand-written word word spectrum spectrum of rare books and Song Jiang Kui seventeen since the degree of song used is basically the same, thus proving that the collection of this long history, since the Ming and Qing dynasties gradually the country lost Suzi music. Looking at the song name, retains the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing variety of tunes, it can be said is a history of Chinese music. Since the Tang, Song has fallen, Chinese music many musical elements (rhythm, tone, music, words, music, musical instruments, structure, melodic, etc.) have left the remains of scars in this ancient music species, called Chang'an drumming to ancient China "living fossil" of music is not too much of.

According to music historians to research, during the Tang Shih, the court musician living people, Yan Tang Dynasty folk music also will spread. Chang Yan Tang Dynasty drums born out of music, the atmosphere, dignified, elegant, rich repertoire, structural integrity, beautiful melody, with court music features, reversing the typical folk music.

Xi'an ancient music performance characteristics

Xi'an Drum bamboo flute mainly to play a musical instrument, into "Sit music" and "merry" in two forms of play, "Sit music" is chamber music, wind instruments have flute, Sheng, pipe, hit the drums play a musical instrument sitting there, drums, drum music, single drum, cymbals and large, small cymbals, large cymbals, small cymbals, gongs, horse gong, gong lead, dumpling, big opera, hand clapper strike outs and other musical instruments, sometimes accompanied by gongs. Xi'an drum music more in the summer and autumn each year (the end of the lunar calendar end of July), in order to celebrate the harvest of the township will be held in the country, playing on the temple, the player to the village, the town organized the "Drum Club" and a big temple, big temple drumming band.

Xi'an ancient music development status quo

At present, the conservation status of Xi'an drum music is not very optimistic, in Xi'an, only 13 civil society drumming, only a total of more than 200 musicians, Xi'an drum music research experts not more than 10, even more frightening is that, although handed down from ancient music there are more than 1,000 head, of which nearly two hundred have been translated, but not a drumming community can play more than 15 songs, only six heritage. Which requires the efforts of generations of people. In order to be able to "Xi'an Drum," a teaching continues, in recent years, Zhouzhi County Technical School of Art full implementation of free education for 63 students of the school, and provide good conditions for their room and board. Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture Minister Yu Huaqing said Zhouzhi County Technical School of Art has made enormous efforts to heritage "Xi'an Drum" in the future, the provincial Department of Culture will give more attention and support drumming tradition Zhouzhi County, is drumming out of Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi out, out of China to create more opportunities.