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The "Lmuhuw" song of Tayal tribe are belonged to an ancient ceremony. "Lmuhuw" means that a designated person performs a ceremony in a particular occasion. The ceremony play an important role in the Tayal society. We can divide the folksong into two parts by their content. First part is about historical records those states ancient''''s origination, migration and tribe ''''s distribution. Another part is about the instructions given by a superior, such as an ethical code, a moral code and taboos. This thesis focused on the Tayal community in Da-Han river basin, and tried to collect the songs from every communities. Through these songs, we have studied several issues, such as pedigree of a clan, migration, tribe pioneers, the instructions given by a superior between different communities. With the technique of musical analysis, we tried to find out the distinguish characteristic of "Lmuhuw" song, and figured out the map of relationship between the basin communities and clans. This thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter I introduce the motivation and objective of this research, the way of research and papers reading. Chapter II tells us that Lmuhuw song belongs to which style of music of Tayal tribe. Moreover, the relationship studying between society functional and an epic poem can be found in this chapter. Chapter III probes the communities relationship via the migration stated in the song. We discussed four communities, which are Mknaji, Mrqwang, Gogan and Msbtunuxd community, about their tribe developing history and tribe distribution issues in Chapter IV. Chapter V focused on the intructions given by a superior to find out the relation between Gaga and Lmuhuw song. In Chapter VI, we used the technique of musical analysis to state the musical structure of Lmuhuw song. Finally the concluding remarks are included in Chapter VII.
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