Discussion of the Loss and Conservation of the Traditional Street “Percussion Instruments” in Central Taiwan

• Main Authors: Jien-Hui Lai, 賴靜慧
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11341093288149347411

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 中國文學所 === 94 === Percussion instruments, namely the phonic signals of specific musical instruments employed for soliciting customers, are usually performed in rotation or combination with shouting or singing. The most special function of the percussion instruments used by vendors, carpenters, and artists is to let people recognize what they are selling. It takes a long time to develop the connection between the image and the symbol, which reveals that the formation of human’s custom is based on the accumulating of habits in living. This study firstly integrated the logic of the experts who have ever classified percussion instruments, and divided percussion instruments into two categories: the musical instruments and the implements. The musical instruments are categorized into four kinds—Aerophones, Idiophones, Membranphones, and Chordophones —with the borrowed concept from western music. The implements, on the other hand, include Objective Commodity, Attachment and the Related Business of Commodity, and Others. Besides, during the process of business, the accidentally soliciting effect caused by vendors, carpenters, and artists is regarded as Analogical Percussion Instrument. The researcher had done field research about the transition existing in the commercial habitation and culture in central Taiwan. This study divided the result of interview records into three topics, including, Living, Diet, and Others. Afterwards, through the three dimensions of Feature of the Timbre, Figural Transformation of Business Gods, and Function of Delivering Advertisement, the researcher addressed why vendors, carpenters, and artists use instruments for soliciting, and further conjectured the relationship of the image and the symbol. In conclusion, this study revealed the cultural meaning of the existence of traditional percussion instruments by analyzing Continuation and Innovation, Imitation and Cooperation, and Evanescence and Reviviscence and tries to make the misunderstandings clear by explaining Homonym and Homophony happened in the developmental process of percussion instruments.