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Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history. This discipline has a very long history. Traditional Chinese music can be traced back to around 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic age.
Chinese Musical Instruments. London and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-590777-9. Tracey, Hugh (1969). "The Mbira Class of African Instruments in Rhodesia". African Music Society Journal 4, no. 3:78–95. Tymoczko, Dmitri (2011). A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. Oxford Studies in Music ...
Shi'er lü (Chinese: 十二律; pinyin: shí'èr lǜ; lit. '12 pitches'; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɻ̩˧˥ aɚ˥˧ ly˥˩]) is a standardized gamut of twelve notes used in ancient Chinese music. [1] It is also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale; it was only one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient
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CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, formerly CHINOPERL Papers and CHINOPERL News, is a peer-reviewed [3] American academic journal dedicated to the study of Chinese performing arts like quyi and xiqu (Chinese opera). It is the only western-language journal devoted to this field.
This is a timeline that show the development of Chinese music by genre and region. It covers the historic China as well as the geographic areas of Taiwan , Hong Kong and Macau . Dynastic periods
The influential Yue Jing Classic of Music from China is lost, [1] though a few Ancient Chinese theorists from the Han dynasty and later have surviving contributions, such as Jing Fang and Xun Xu. Writers of late antiquity —particularly Boethius , Cassiodorus and Isidore of Seville —were crucial in translating and transmitting much thought ...
The music of China consists of many distinct traditions, often specifically originating with one of the country's various ethnic groups.It is produced within and without the country, involving either people of Chinese origin, the use of traditional Chinese instruments, Chinese music theory, or the languages of China.