根据曲种音乐的“体”、“型”异同,内在联系,以及品种间的亲缘关系,湖北境内的曲种音乐,可分为:丝弦小曲、渔鼓道情、鼓书鼓词、踏歌要唱四种类型。属于丝弦小曲类的有:湖北小曲(即汉滩小曲)、长阳南曲、鄂西扬琴(即恩施扬琴)、郧阳曲子(即郧西三弦)、襄阳小曲、文曲、天沔小曲、利川小曲、阳新小曲等九个曲种。它们的共同特征是,均采用曲牌联缀结构,个别曲种还有共同的声腔。如湖北小曲、长阳南曲中的[南曲]、鄂西扬琴中的[越调]它们之间实为同源关系。风格虽因曲种而异,但均保留着某些共有特征及其可辨性。没有共同声腔维系的曲种,在曲牌的联缀上多采用相似或相近的手法,将主要唱腔 According to the music’s “body”, “type” similarities and differences, internal relations, as well as the relationship between species, music in Hubei music, can be divided into: string music, drums drumming, Four types. Belonging to the string of songs are: Xiaoqu (Hubei), Changyang Southern Song, Western Hubei dulcimer (Enshi dulcimer), Yunyang song (ie Yunxian Sanxian), Xiangyang Xiaoqu, Wenqun, Tianzhu Xiaoqu, Icheon Xiao Qu, Yang new song and other nine species. Their common feature is the use of Tupu conjoined structure, there is a separate song of the common sound cavity. Such as Hubei Xiaoqu, Changyang Southern song in the [Southern Song], Western Hubei dulcimer [Yue tune] between them is actually the same source. Although the style varies with the song, but they retain some of the common features and their discernible. There is no common sound cavity to maintain the song, the song card in the joint use of more or less similar approach, the main aria