英文摘要
|
Nankuan music was originally a part the folk music. The ecology of Nankuan music of both sides of Taiwan Strait has been strongly affected by modern and various entertainments, thus Nankuan musicians' heritage has been endangered, and repertoire simplified. Nowadays, many scholars have studied Nankuan music's ceremonial performances from different fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, and methodology, etc., but always lacked a systematic arrangement. In recent years, Taiwan government institutes such as National Center of Traditional Arts, have been hoping to rebuild the ”Pai-Mng-Thau” and ”Gak-put-toan-seng”, means music uninterrupted while switching the musicians, the ceremonial performance of Nankuan music, through the help of scholars and old Nankuan Societies of different locations.
In fact, both ”Pai-Mng-Thau” and ”Gak-put-toan-seng” used to be characteristic performances of Nankuan in Taiwan. However, it has been at least fifty years that the Nankuan circle missed a complete activity of ”Gak-put-toan-seng”. All the relevant information was told by old musicians. According to different oral accounts, we know that ”Gak-put-toan-seng” was built upon the music theory and aesthetics of Nankuan, but only very few living musicians have participated in this activity, while most musicians only heard of it from elders. If we want to rebuild the ceremonial performance that has been missing for half a century, we may need many demonstrative ”Gak-put-toan-seng” concerts, to re-live the oral history on one hand, and to find problems during practices on the other hand. We will alsoneed scholars and musicians to correct the unreasonableness and untimelyness of these performances, followed by a proposal of the project to publicize and educate Nankuan lovers, and ultimately present the ideal ”Gak-put-toan-seng” concerts.
For further understanding of ”Pai-Mng-Thau” in Nankuan's concerts, the author will describe the traditional ”Pai-Mng-Thau”, ”Gak-put-toan-seng” and their relevant ceremony, according to her experiences and field studies.
|