Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)

An Exploration of the Singing of Xinjiang Songs------A Case Study of "Qumandi" and "Playing the tambourine and singing"

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Weihua Xiao
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Weihua Xiao
Available Online June 2017.
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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.391How to use a DOI?
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Xinjiang songs; singing exploration; Qumandi; playing tambourine and singing
Abstract

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in the northwest border of China, is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions with wide area in China. There are 47 ethnic groups, including Uygur, Han, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Kirgiz, and Russia and so on. Xinjiang songs are influenced by the local culture of various ethnic groups, forming dominate music based on the Uygur music, with distinctive characteristics of the Xinjiang song system, which has a rhythmic and lively, beautiful melody, symmetrical structure neat, warm and lively features. Most of Xinjiang songs utilize natural seven tone mode. There are some new songs using pentatonic mode, b7, # 1, # 2, # 4, # 5 and other changes in the use of sound, varied as well as colorful. The main accompaniment instruments include tambourine, dobro, and rewrap. After years of development, Xinjiang songs share not only the precipitation of traditional songs, but also the imprint with the development of time, and meanwhile they hold distinctive national characteristics. Therefore, if the singer would like to grasp the emotion of Xinjiang songs more accurately and better interpret the connotation of Xinjiang songs, it is necessary to dig the potential meaning of the songs in depth, to understand the background of the song and to learn the unique Xinjiang singing style in order to meet the singing needs.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2017
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978-94-6252-344-9
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2352-5398
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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.391How to use a DOI?
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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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