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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Chinese Music,Traditional Chinese Music,Music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments,flutes,and various cymbals,gongs,and drums.The scale has five notes.Bamboo pipes and,qin,are among the oldest known musical instruments from China;instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition:skin,gourd,bamboo,wood,silk,earth/clay,metal and stone,Traditional Music Instruments,The dizi(Chinese:笛子;pinyin:dzi),is a Chinese transverse flute.,Traditional Music Instruments,The Chinese,sheng,(Chinese:笙;Pinyin,shng,)is a mouth-blown free reed instrument(the first)consisting essentially of vertical tubes,in the Chinese orchestra.,Traditional Music Instruments,A gong is any one of a wide variety of metal percussion instruments.The term is Malay-Javanese in origin but widespread throughout Asia.The instrument itself appears to have origins in the bronze drums of China,cymbals of central Asia,and perhaps even in European bell-casting techniques.,Traditional Music Instruments,The,erhu,(Chinese:,二胡,;pinyin:,rh,),sometimes known in the West as the Chinese violin or Chinese two string fiddle,is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument,used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras.,Traditional Music Instruments,The guqin(helpinfo)(Chinese:古琴;pinyin:gqn;literally ancient stringed-instrument)is the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument,Traditional Music Instruments,The guzheng,or gu zheng(Chinese:古箏;pinyin:gzhng)or zheng(箏)(gu-means ancient)is a traditional Chinese musical instrument.It belongs to the zither,(A musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box;played with a plectrum and with fingers.),family of string instruments.,Traditional Music Instruments,The pipa(Chinese:琵琶;pinyin:pp)is a plucked Chinese string instrument.Sometimes called the Chinese lute,the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body.It has been played for nearly two thousand years of history in China,Famous pieces include 十面埋伏 Shimian Maifu Ambushed from Ten Sides,夕陽簫鼓 Xiyang Xiaogu Flute and Drum at Sunset,陽春白雪 Yangchun Baixue White Snow in a Sunny Spring,龍船 Long Chuan Dragon Boat,彝族舞曲 Yizu Wuqu Dance of the Yi People,大浪淘沙 Dalang Taosha Big Waves Pushing the Sand,昭君出塞 Zhaojun Chusai Zhaojun Outside the Frontier and 霸王卸甲 Bawang Xiejia King Chu Takes Off his Armour.,Traditional Music Instruments,The morin khuur or morin huur(from the Mongolian:)or matouqin(from the Chinese:馬頭琴,ma,tou,qin,)is a chordophone of Mongolian origin whose name roughly translates as horse-head fiddle in English.It is played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained,like a wild horse neighing,or like a breeze in the grasslands.It is the most important musical instrument of the Mongolian people,and is considered a symbol of the Mongolian nation.,Traditional Music Instruments,The suona(simplified:唢呐;traditional:嗩吶;,suo,na,also called the laba 喇叭 or haidi 海笛)is a Han Chinese shawm(oboe).It has a distinctively loud and high-pitched sound,and is used frequently in Chinese traditional music ensembles,particularly those that perform outdoors.,Traditional Music Instruments,Bianzhong(Simplified Chinese:编钟;Traditional Chinese:編鐘;pinyin:bin zhng)is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells,played melodically.,Traditional Music Instruments,The xun(simplified:埙;pinyin:xn)is a Chinese ocarina made of clay or ceramic.It is one of the oldest Chinese instruments.,Traditional Music Instruments,The hulusi(simplified:葫芦丝;pinyin:hls)is a free reed wind instrument from China.It is held vertically and has three bamboo pipes which pass through a gourd wind chest;one pipe has finger holes and the other two are drone pipes.,Traditional Music Instruments,The trapezoidal yangqin(揚琴;pinyin yngqn)is a Chinese hammered dulcimer originally from the Middle East(Persia(modern-day Iran).The yangqin was traditionally fitted with bronze strings,which gave the instrument a soft timbre.This form of instrument is still occasionally heard today in the hudie qin(蝴蝶琴,lit.butterfly zither)played in the traditional silk and bamboo genre from the Shanghai region known as Jiangnan sizhu(江南絲竹),as well as in some Cantonese music groups.,Traditional Music Instruments,The,sanxian,三弦,(literally three strings)is a Chinese lute a three-stringed fretless plucked musical instrument.It has a long fingerboard,and the body is traditionally made from snakeskin stretched over a rounded rectangular resonator.,The,ruan,(阮,pinyin:,run,)is a Chinese plucked string instrument.It is a lute with a fretted neck,a circular body,and four strings.Its strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th century they have been made of steel(,flatwound,for the lower strings).,Top 10 Ancient Chinese Classical Music,Mighty Mountain and Flowing River(,Gao,Shan Liu,Shui,，高山流水,),Guang,ling,San,广陵散,Wild Geese(Ping,Sha,Luo,Yan,平沙落雁,),Mei Flower(Mei Hua San Nong,梅花三弄,),Besieged(Shi Mian Mai Fu,十面埋伏,),Sunset(Xi Yang Xiao Gu,夕阳箫鼓,),Conversation between a fisherman and a woodman(Yu,Qiao,Wen,Da,渔樵问答,),Home Return(,Hu,Jia,Shi,Ba,Pai,胡笳十八拍,),Autumn Moon in the Han Palace(Han Gong,Qiu,Yue,汉宫秋月,),Sunny Spring&White Snow(Yang Chun,Bai,Xue,阳春白雪,),Chinese Well-known Music,The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto,is one of the most famous works of Chinese music and certainly the most famous outside of China.It is an orchestral adaptation of an earlier legend,the Butterfly Lovers.Written for the western style orchestra,it features a solo violin played using some Chinese techniques.,The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto,was written by two Chinese composers,He,Zhanhao,and Chen Gang in 1959 while they were students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.,Chinese name:,梁祝，,liangzhu,Chinese Well-known Music,The Yellow River Cantata(Chinese:黄河大合唱 Pinyin:Hungh Dhchng)is a cantata by Chinese composer Xian Xinghai(19051945).Composed in Yanan in early 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War,the work was inspired by a patriotic poem by Guang Weiran,which was also adapted as the lyrics.Premiered on April 13 of the same year in the Shanbei Gongxue Hall of Yanan,the work soon spread to all parts of China and greatly inspired the people to take up arms against Japanese invaders,Chinese Modern Music,The,1970s,saw the rise of,Cantopop,in,Hong Kong,.It arose as a reaction against more traditional,shidaiqu,and featured American,soft rock,and traditional Cantonese vocal styles.,Joseph Koo,Lisa Wang,Adam Cheng,Lotus,Wynners,and,James Wong,were especially popular.In the,1980s,singers began using,Cantonese,instead of,English,.This new generation of stars included,Sam Hui,Danny Chan,Kenny Bee,Anita Mui,Aaron Kwok,Leon Lai,Andy Lau,and,Jacky Cheung,.The last four were the biggest stars,and were referred to as the four gods(of Cantopop)(Cantonese:,sei3 dai6 tin1 wong4,).Newer,teen idols,include,Sammi Cheng,Karen Mok,and,Eason Chan,.,Parallel with the rise of Cantopop was,Chinese Rock,which drew on earlier,underground pioneers like,Taiwanese,star,Teresa Teng,.The widely-acknowledged forefather of Chinese rock is,Cui Jian,.Modern rock artists include,Tang Dynasty,Dadawa,Cobra,Dou Wei,Zhang Chu,He Yong,Zhinanzhen,Lingdian,and,Heibao,.Musically,these range from,New Wave,(Lingdian)to,heavy metal,(Heibao),alongside,punk rock,bands like,Catcher in the Rye,and,Dixiayinger,.,In 1980 the Chinese Musicians Association was formally elected to the International Musicological Society.Chinese musical groups toured foreign countries,and foreign musical organizations performed in China.In the mid-1980s popular,ballads,and Western folk and,classical music,still drew the greatest audiences,but other kinds of music,including previously banned Western jazz and,rock and roll,were being performed and were receiving increasing acceptance,especially among young people.,T,he Father of Chinese Rock-Cui,Jian,崔健,T,he Father of Chinese Rock-Cui,Jian,崔健,Cui Jian(Chinese:崔健;pinyin:Cu Jin;born August 2,1961)is a Beijing-based musician,songwriter,trumpet player,guitarist and composer.Affectionately called“Old Cui”(老崔),he is considered to be a pioneer in Chinese rock music and the first Chinese artist to break away from conventional Chinese popular forms and incorporate a Western rock style into his songs.For this distinction Cui Jian is sometimes referred to as the“father of Chinese rock”.In his later works,he has also begun to experiment with rap music,adding a drummer/MC to his band for The Power of the Powerless(1998,),T,he Father of Chinese Rock-Cui,Jian,崔健,In the late 1980s Cui,Jian,played the first Chinese rock song called:I Have Nothing(Yi,wu,suo,you).,It was the first time that an electric guitar was used in China.Cui,Jian,became the most famous performer of the time.His socially critical lyrics earned him the anger of the government and many of his concerts were banned or cancelled.After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 he played with a red scarf around his head to demonstrate against the actions of the government.,