Studying for Transmission of Chin’ an Folksongs, Chin’ an County, China

Abstract

The purposes of this study are: 1) To study the music traits of Qin'an folk songs. 2) To construct the Qin’an Song Book for teaching children, and 3) To experiment teaching by using the Qin’an Songs Book and knows the result of teaching. The research methodology was Ethnomusicological research mixed with experimental research, gathering data at Qin’an County, China. The research results found that: Qin’an folk songs were in a single form, variety lyrical structures in Qin’an language and usually sung in pentatonic. The Qin’an Folk Songs Book for Children contained 22 songs with using description. After learning Qin’an songs for nine weeks, all five students have passed the formative test/summative test at good level as following: student 1 = 3.33/3.63, student 2 = 3.55 / 3.81, student 3 = 3.32/3.53, student 4 = 3.23/3.44 student 5 = 3.26/4.04 and the result of teaching Qin’an Songs to student by using the Qin’an Songs Book for Children was met with hypothesis.