Music in China and its musical instruments

2.  China has a long traditional music
tradition. Over the centuries, musicians
developed various styles of music and
invented or adopted many types of
instrument.

3. Chinese opera music
Ensemble or orchestra music
Solo instrument performance

4.  Beijing opera or Pecking opera- is
the most popular Chinese opera. It
has created many first in Chinese
dramas; the abundance of
repertoires, the number of artist,
opera troupes and spectators.

6.  Simple
 Create serenity and calmness
 Facilitate the appropriate conduct in
the ceremonial context; and
 The instrument should be played
with correct technique as a model
for proper behavior.

7.  Magnificent beginning
 Harmonious
 Clear
 Musical structure should be easy to
understand
 Smoothly continuous

8.  Falsetto
 Solo rather than choral
 Melodic rather than harmonic
 Develop from sung poems and
verses with music

9.  Erhu-a two-stringed instrument
 Pipa-is a kind of lute with 4 strings.
 Zheng-looks like a zither

11. YUEQIN
A moon shape
lute with
shorter neck
and four
strings, played
with a
spectrum,
used for
accompanying
local operas.

12. PIPA
A four-stringed lute
with 30 frets and a
pear-shaped body.
Has extremely wide
dynamic range and
remarkable
expressive power.

13. ERHU
A two-
stringed
fiddle and
one of the
most popular
Chinese
instrument.

14. YUNLUO
A set of ten
small tuned
gongs
mounted on a
wooden
frame. Has
equal
diameter but
different
thickness.

15. ZHENG
Chinese ancient
instrument that
has an arched
surface and has
an elongated-
trapezoid with
13 to 21 strings
stretched over
individual
bridges.

16. DIZI
Is the
traditional
Chinese flute.
It can have a
membrane
over an extra
hole, to give
the
characteristic
rattle effect.

17. SHENG
Called Chinese
mouth organ
and looks like
a set of pan-
pipes with 12
to 36 bamboo
pipes.

18. PENGLING
small bells
made of high-
tin bronze,
without
internal
clappers.

19.  MO LI HUA
 AI HAI YO

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