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Chinese folk flute music are folk songs written to tell the traditions and tales of various tribes in China, around the 12th century. They were played mostly on wooden flutes , and thus the pieces that have survived till today are written in D, which is the key these early flutes were made in.
Most dizi are made of bamboo, which explains why dizi are sometimes known by simple names such as Chinese bamboo flute. However, "bamboo" is perhaps more of a Chinese instrument classification like "woodwind" in the West. Northern Chinese dizi are made from purple or violet bamboo, while dizi made in Suzhou and Hangzhou are made from white bamboo.
The xiāo is a very ancient Chinese instrument usually thought to have developed from a simple end-blown flute used by the Qiang people of Southwest China in ancient period. In the oral traditions of the Xiao, practitioners and poets say its sound resembles the sweetness of the Phoenix's call, the king of birds in Chinese belief. [2]
Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute (Chinese: 胡笳十八拍; pinyin: Hújiā Shíbā Pāi) are a series of Chinese songs and poems about the life of Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE) poet Cai Wenji (蔡文姬). The songs were composed by Liu Shang, a poet of the middle Tang dynasty (618–907 CE).
Bawu (transverse free-reed flute) Hulusi (vertical gourd free-reed flute normally with one or two drone pipes) Chinese flutes are generally made from bamboo (see bamboo flutes) and belong to the bamboo classification of Chinese music, although they can be (and have been) made of other materials such as jade. [1] [2] [3] [4]
He got a place at the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied the silver flute. Since then Yue has had a wide-ranging musical career, including composing, arranging, performing and recording traditional Chinese music. He has also recorded with his brother Guo Yi (郭艺), who plays the sheng (a sort of bamboo mouth organ). In 1990 they made ...
The paixiao (traditional: 排簫; simplified: 排箫; pinyin: páixiāo; also pái xiāo) is a Chinese wind instrument, a form of pan flute. A major difference between the Chinese Paixiao and the panpipes used in European and South American traditions, is that at the top of the Chinese instrument the pipe holes are each cut angled or with notches.
The oldest written sources reveal the Chinese were using the kuan (a reed instrument) and hsio (or xiao, an end-blown flute, often of bamboo) in the 12th-11th centuries b.c., followed by the chi (or ch'ih) in the 9th century b.c. and the yüeh in the 8th century b.c. [3] Of these, the chi is the oldest documented cross flute or transverse flute ...
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