The thesis describes the ceremony and its process by the means of ethnomusicological theory and methods,classifies the ceremonial music and analyzes the music characteristics of the music.

The situation of ceremonial music activities can be found out in sections of The Books of the Old Testament of Holy Bible.

The writer took the space as one of dimensionalities of analyzing ceremonial music,and held the conception of space classified into three levels of substance,relation and consciousness,which corresponding the grade,order and structure in ceremonial music,explored the state of disorder reflected by ceremonial music during the social variance.

By means of field investigation,this paper analyzes the melody and structural features of the ritual music of "Huantanshen" in Enshi prefecture and gives a cultural explanation of the music phenomenon in the rites.

Through the analyses of the ritual music and singing dancing in the nationals of Dai, Yao, Tujia, Zhuang, and Han, the writer pointed out that the rondo form in part of traditional ritual were the basic music form as well as the basic structural principle of the related traditional ritual, and both of them had the features of the same kinds and same structures.

The rites and the ritual music of life not only have reflected the abundant customs and colorful music but also reflected the Mongolian historic traditional culture.

This thesis focuses on the research of the rank,order and structure in its evolution process of the ceremony music.

The history of Taoism and the Christianity ceremony music can go back to ancient times,so their period of expansion are very long,and it can be divided into two important periods according to their characteristic of development.

Ceremony music plays an important role in the ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Against the background of ceremony and music system being perfected, this thesis discusses the ceremonial songs which were produced at the times of King Mu in the Western Zhou dynasty in The Book of Songs.