CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODS
2. Research Process
2.1 Selected select research site and key informant 2.2 Tools Making
2.3 Data Collecting 2.4 Data Management 2.5 Data analysis 2.6 Data Presenting 1. Research Scope
1.1 Scope of content
This dissertation has content about the history and development, the characteristic in music selected and create the model to conservations of folksong in Shanxi Province, China
1.2 Scope of research site
Shanxi He qu county to interview Miao Maolin, Shanxi Bao de county to interview Yang zhongqing, Shanxi Zuo quan county to interview Liu Gaiyu,
1.3 Scope of time
In this thesis, I have collected data from fieldwork by questionnaires, conducts interviews, consults literature, etc, from 2020, 7 to 2021, 5.
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2.1 Selected research site and key informant.
2.1.1 select research site
Shanxi He qu county, Shanxi Bao de county,Shanxi Zuo quan county,the three counties are the famous distribution areas of Shanxi folk songs and the birthplace of Shanxi folk songs. Therefore, the author chooses these three places as the research site.
Figure 2 Map of Shanxi
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2.1.2 Key informant key informants
1) Miao Maolin
Figure 3 Picture of Miao Maolin By: Guo Caiqin (collect in 2020.6)
23 Miao Maolin (1982-), Miao Maolin was born in Hequ County, Shanxi Province.
He graduated from Shaanxi Normal University, School of Music, majoring in composition technology. He is currently working at Shanxi Datong University and is known as an outstanding young teacher. Research on the composition technology of folk songs in the northwest, so Miao Maolin has made great contributions to the field of folk songs in northwest Shanxi. He has made outstanding contributions to the promotion and inheritance of Hequ folk songs. For example, his master's thesis: "Shanxi Folk Song Composition Technology Research" was included in the China Knowledge Network Excellent Master's Thesis Network. More importantly, Ms. Miao Maolin is a native of Hequ. He is an insider of Hequ music culture. Therefore, his understanding and experience of Hequ folk songs is quite profound. I have the honor to follow Ms. Miao Maolin to learn music analysis courses. Therefore, it is most appropriate to choose teacher Miao Maolin as the interview subject.
2) Yang Zhongqing
Figure 4 Picture of Yang Zhongqing By: Guo Caiqin (collect in 2020.8)
Yang Zhongqing (1942-) was born in Baode County and is the inheritor of Baode County's folk songs. From the age of 4, he could sing Shanxi folk songs such as "Big Red Rooster Lying on the Window Sill" at the age of 6. He entered school at the age of 9 and under the guidance of his teacher, he understood general knowledge of music theory and learned how to spell numbered musical notation. He returned to the stage in 1972 and became famous with a
24 Baode folk song "Zou Xikou". He has made outstanding contributions to the promotion of Baode County folk songs.
3) Liu gai yu
Figure 5 Picture of Yang Zhongqing By: Guo Caiqin (collect in 2021.2)
Liu Gaiyu, (1939) female, Han nationality, is one of the inheritors of Zuo Quan's kai hua diao and a famous Shanxi folk singer, first-class actor of Shanxi Provincial Song and Dance Theater, member of Chinese Musicians Association. Born in Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province in 1939. Zuoquan County is known as the hometown of folk songs in Shanxi. She loved folk songs and Zuoquan Xiaohua Opera since she was a child. She sought advice from teachers and studied carefully. Since childhood, he has accumulated many folk songs such as "Peach Blossoms, Red Apricot Blossoms, White", "Qin Gedan Under the River Washing Clothes", "Door Building and Flowering Cannot Come".
2.2 Data collection.
In this thesis i used 4 tools to get the data 1) Questionnaire
2) Interview recoed 3) Observation record 4) document
25 2.3 Data Management
I have categorized the collected data, including the following types 1) video
Collected more than 400 videos of folk songs in Datong City, Hequ County, Zuoquan couty and Baode County.
2) Folk song score
Collected more than 400 music scores of folk songs in northwest Shanxi, of which more than 20 come from books.
3) Books
Books about folk song research in Shanxi, i obtained more than 20 books through library search and field collection.
4) Picture
Collected more than 500 pictures in four field work, these pictures include the following categories: figure pictures, geographical environment pictures, music score pictures, music performance activity pictures, etc.
2.4 Data Analyze
My dissertation has 3 objectives. At the same time since my research topic in this thesis is "the model for conservation and development Folk song in Shanxi Province, China".
In the first objective, to analyze the history and development of folk song in Shanxi Province, China, I hand studied, and sorted out the literature of Shanxi folk song research for two years, and collected more than 400 copies of books and periodicals. all the literature of Shanxi folk songs has been summarized and classified. On this basis, I have summarized the research fields of previous scholars on this topic, in order to find research gaps and supplement.
In the second objective, in order to analysis the characteristic in music selected of folksong in Shanxi Province, China, make readers aware of the main modes, melody, rhythm, and structure of these folk songs, I have applied form table analysis, comparison, and summary, through their respective accounts. Analyze the artistic characteristics of folk songs Shanxi, and draw result through quantitative research.
In the third objective, in order to obtain the model of conservation of Shanxi folk songs. I mainly use qualitative and quantitative analyze methods.
26 2.5 Data Presenting
In this thesis, I finally present six chapters, which are:
1) Chapter One: Introduction;
2) Chapter Two: Literature Review;
3) Chapter Three: Research Methods;
4) Chapter Four to Chapter six: Three Research Results 5) Chapter seven: Conclusion
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