Chinese Music

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Chinese Music
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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

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The dizi (Chinese ?? pinyin dízi), is a
  Chinese transverse flute.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The Chinese sheng (Chinese ? Pinyin sheng) is a
  mouth-blown free reed instrument (the first)
  consisting essentially of vertical tubes, in the
  Chinese orchestra.

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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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The erhu (Chinese ?? pinyin èrhú), 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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The guqin (helpinfo) (Chinese ?? pinyin
  guqín literally "ancient stringed-instrument")
  is the modern name for a plucked seven-string
  Chinese musical instrument

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The guzheng, or gu zheng (Chinese ?? pinyin
  guzheng) or zheng (?) (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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The pipa (Chinese ?? pinyin pípá) 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 ???? Shimian Maifu Ambushed from Ten
  Sides, ???? Xiyang Xiaogu Flute and Drum at
  Sunset, ???? Yangchun Baixue White Snow in a
  Sunny Spring, ?? Long Chuan Dragon Boat,
  ???? Yizu Wuqu Dance of the Yi People, ????
  Dalang Taosha Big Waves Pushing the Sand,
  ???? Zhaojun Chusai Zhaojun Outside the
  Frontier and ???? Bawang Xiejia King Chu
  Takes Off his Armour.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The morin khuur or morin huur (from the
  Mongolian ????? ????) or matouqin (from the
  Chinese ???, 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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The suona (simplified ?? traditional ??suo
  na, also called the laba ?? or haidi ??) 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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• Bianzhong (Simplified Chinese ?? Traditional
  Chinese ?? pinyin bian zhong) is an ancient
  Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of
  bronze bells, played melodically.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The xun (simplified ? pinyin xun) is a Chinese
  ocarina made of clay or ceramic. It is one of the
  oldest Chinese instruments.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The hulusi (simplified ??? pinyin húlúsi) 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.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The trapezoidal yangqin (?? pinyin yángqín) 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 (???, lit.
  "butterfly zither") played in the traditional
  silk and bamboo genre from the Shanghai region
  known as Jiangnan sizhu (????), as well as in
  some Cantonese music groups.

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Traditional Music Instruments

• The sanxian?? (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.

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• The ruan (?, pinyin ruan) 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).

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Top 10 Ancient Chinese Classical Music

• Mighty Mountain and Flowing River (Gao Shan Liu
  Shui,????)
• Guang ling San ???
• Wild Geese (Ping Sha Luo Yan ????)
• Mei Flower (Mei Hua San Nong ????)
• Besieged (Shi Mian Mai Fu ????)
• Sunset (Xi Yang Xiao Gu????)
• Conversation between a fisherman and a woodman
  (Yu Qiao Wen Da???? )
• Home Return (Hu Jia Shi Ba Pai?????)
• Autumn Moon in the Han Palace (Han Gong Qiu
  Yue????)
• Sunny Spring White Snow (Yang Chun Bai Xue????)

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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 ??,liangzhu

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Chinese Well-known Music

• The Yellow River Cantata (Chinese????? Pinyin
  Huánghé Dàhéchàng) is a cantata by Chinese
  composer Xian Xinghai (19051945). Composed in
  Yan'an 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
  Yan'an, the work soon spread to all parts of
  China and greatly inspired the people to take up
  arms against Japanese invaders

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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.

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The Father of Chinese Rock-Cui Jian ??
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The Father of Chinese Rock-Cui Jian ??

• Cui Jian (Chinese ?? pinyin Cui Jiàn born
  August 2, 1961) is a Beijing-based musician,
  songwriter, trumpet player, guitarist and
  composer. Affectionately called Old Cui (??),
  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)

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The Father of Chinese Rock-Cui Jian ??

• 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.