What are the musical characteristics of Tujia nationality?

Of course, the musical features of Tujia folk songs should be analyzed and summarized on the basis of songs sung by Tujia people in their own language. If the Tujia folk songs in Chinese are taken as the center, the musical features reflected are generally consistent with the Han folk songs in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the southwest style areas. Based on Tujia folk songs, this paper analyzes and summarizes the musical characteristics of unearthed traditional family folk songs.

Tujia folk songs all adopt pentatonic scale. There are [lasiremisol] and [lasiremisol] in the modal sequence, and the downward [solmiresi (do) la] in the modal sequence shows more distinctive national attributes.

The pure fifth degree formed by the tonic "1a" and the upper fifth degree "mi" plays a key role in the melody. It can be said that the melody foundation of Tujia folk songs is pentatonic scale, the external frame of the melody is la→sol minor seventh degree, and the internal core of the melody is 1a→mi pure fifth degree.

The tonic at the end of the phrase is long and slippery, with a strong sense of stability. Further emphasizing this progress at the end of the song will form a complete sense of termination.

The biggest musical difference between Tujia folk songs in Youyou, Shui Gu, Xiangxi and Qingjiang Valley, Southwest Hubei lies in that the former adopts a pentatonic scale with a pure fifth degree as the core, with a big melody jump and a loud and warm style; The latter mostly adopts the [Lador] three-tone series with the third degree (LADO) as the core, with smooth melody lines and simple style.

Tujia folk songs mostly adopt rhythmic and rhythmic beat patterns, and mixed beats are very common. The rhythm pattern of short before and long after is more prominent. The rhythm layout is mostly dense before and sparse after.