Types of instrumental music of the Buyi people

The main folk instruments of the Buyi people are: Layu, Lelang, double reed instruments. Straight bamboo reed double-barreled instruments. Most of them play short and concise tunes, some of which are derived from the suona tunes of the Han Chinese.

Buyi instrumental music: ① blowing music. Used for weddings and funerals and other customary occasions, by the suona, tuba, drums, cymbals, etc., commonly known as the "Eight Immortals", there are ceremonial sets and recreational miscellaneous songs. ② small beat music. Popular in the Muzha River on both sides of the Buyi villages in a kind of silk and bamboo music. Instruments have xiao tube, moon piano, huqin, bowl or cymbal. There are about 300 songs. There are many folk names for the structure and melodic development of the music, such as "A branch of plum" (one-part style), "Two Flying Swallows" (two-part style), "Three Spring Willows" (three-part style), "Flowering in Chaos" (multiple-part style), as well as "Little Flip", "Big Flip", "Dragon Swinging Tail", "Dragon Rolling", "Eyebrows Through the Mountain", and "Two Dragons Out of the Cave". It is mainly played in unison. The performance is often improvised by adding flowers or simplified, resulting in inconsistencies, thus producing a natural polyphonic effect. Copper Drum Ensemble. Popular in the Guanling area, the ensemble is led by copper drums and played by skin drums, cymbals, gongs, gongs and small cymbals. It is mainly played during the Spring Festival to express nostalgia for ancestors. The Ritual has a set of traditional music, ****12 sections.