Research on the Significance of Traditional Chinese Music-Score Inheritance under a Complex Information System: An Example of Xi'an Drum Musical Inheritance

Historically, the inheritance of Xi'an Drum Music employs an ancient and special method of "people to people," which is subject to subject philosophically. Music scores are merely an assisting tool and it is also a very common practice for traditional Chinese music inheritance. Ancient scores "reflect and stipulate information of their history, current status and future." In terms of information classification, ancient scores are obviously a type of material object existing in the form of social information. The inheritance of the ancient Xi'an Drum Music score through generations of folk artists also continues the work product of self-existing and regenerated information. In order to observe more clearly the differences of the traditional Chinese music score inheritance and their varying style, this paper takes Xi'an Drum Music as an example and analyzes and computes data related to differences and relevancy of music score inheritance. Every nation has its own characters and every culture also has its character of development and inheritance. Thus, the inheritance of traditional Chinese music should not be isolated from its own cultural environment and aesthetic system so that the cultural characteristics and aesthetic specialty can continue in the generations to come.