马头琴源流梳证

Textual Research on the Originations of Mongol Stringed Instrument

马头琴因琴头饰马而得名,是蒙古民族的象征,是最能代表草原音乐文化的载体之一,蕴含了独特的草原游牧审美文化、人文思想、风格气质和民族精神。其不但在中国甚至世界乐器家族中占有非常重要的地位,而且也是民间艺人、牧民家中所喜欢且必备的乐器。马头琴所演奏的乐曲,具有深沉粗犷、激昂的特点,体现了蒙古民族的生产、生活和草原风格。对于马头琴源流的考析,目前因史料缺乏等原因还存在明显的断层,导致了不同研究者的不同结论。

As the Mongolia national symbol and the best representative of the Prairie music culture,Mongol Stringed Instrument is named because of its end like a horse head.This instrument contains a unique steppe nomadic style of aesthetic culture,humanities,temperament and national spirit.It occupies a very important place in China and even in the world music instruments and is deeply loved by folk artists and pastoralists.The music played with the instrument is characteristics with deep,rough and passionate melody,embodying the Mongolia national style of production,live and Prairie.Researchers have different arguments because of the discontinuity of research resulted from the deficiency of documents.