民歌本身是一種傾吐著歷史生命力的聲音,也是一面反映時代背景的鏡子,因為工商業社會的興起,以致這些民歌漸漸沒落,若無記錄及研究,這些祖先的遺產,將無法傳給後代。音樂界的前輩,已經紀錄保存許多民歌,而新的一代也利用編曲、創作,使這些民歌在新的世代再生。本論文的研究從民歌的本質與意義談起,先以西方民族音樂興起為引導,再談台灣三大族群—福佬系民歌、客家民歌及原住民民歌的特色,並論及台灣民歌的沒落與蛻變,然後以四首耳熟能詳的福佬系民歌《丟丟銅仔》、《六月茉莉》、《思想起》、《一隻鳥仔》為例,針對其原曲與編作加以探討分析,再研究台灣作曲家如何以台灣民歌為素材,融入其作品當中。
Folk music itself is not only a voice which describes the vitality of history but also a mirror which refelcts the background of time. Folk music has been declining gradully due to the rise of industrial society.If we don’t keep these valuable records and research, then we won’t be able to pass these ancestors’ legacies to our future generations.Our music predecessors have recorded and kept many folk music and the new generation nowadays, also makes the folk music revive by making music arrangements and composing.The research of this study is to expound the nature and meaning of folk music.Guiding with the rise of Western folk music first then remarking on the characteristics of three major ethnic folk music groups in Taiwan--- Fulao folk music, Hakka folk music, and Aboriginal folk music, this study also demonstrates the decline and transformation of folk music and takes four well-known songs of Fulao folk music:An Old Train, June’s Jasamin, Thinking of, and Bird Whimpering for examples, analyzing their original songs and composition, then looking into how Taiwanese composers use Taiwan folk music as material and integrate the resource into their work.