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The sanxian (Chinese: 三弦, literally "three strings") is a three-stringed traditional Chinese lute.It has a long fretless fingerboard, and the body is traditionally made from snake skin stretched over a rounded rectangular resonator.
The qinqin (秦 琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Đàn sến [1]) is a plucked Chinese lute. It was originally manufactured with a wooden body, a slender fretted neck, and three strings. [2] Its body can be round, [3] hexagonal (with rounded sides), or octagonal. Often, only two strings were used, as in certain regional silk-and-bamboo ...
Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty , and although historically the term pipa was once used to refer to a variety of plucked chordophones , its usage since the Song dynasty refers exclusively to ...
The yueqin (Chinese: 月琴; pinyin: Yuèqín; Japanese: 月琴, romanized: Gekkin; Korean: 월금/月琴, romanized: Wolgeum; Vietnamese: Nguyệt cầm/月琴 or Vietnamese: Đàn nguyệt/彈月), also called a moon lute or moon guitar, is a traditional Chinese string instrument. It is a lute with a round, hollow soundboard, a short fretted ...
Jiangnan string music was fully formed by the late Qing Dynasty, and flourished during the Republic of China. [1] [page needed] Jiangnan string music was once known as "South Jiangsu silk bamboo" and "Wuyue silk bamboo" due to its regional and customary style. [1] [page needed] String music developed greatly in northern China.
Rawap (热瓦普 or 热瓦甫) – a fretless plucked long-necked lute used in Uyghur traditional music of Xinjiang; Tianqin - a 3 strings plucked lute of Zhuang people in Guangxi. Qiben - a four strings plucked lute of Lisu people; Wanqin (弯琴: shaped like a dragon boat. Its shape is very similar to Myanmar's saung-gauk.
The default tuning of zhongruan is G 2 D 3 G 3 D 4. [3] It can also be tuned as G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4, or A 2 D 3 D 3 D 4, or other variants, according to requirements in music scores. [4] Since the zhongruan has a rounded, calm and rich tone, it is usually played as a lead instrument in small ensembles and used to accompany other instruments in Chinese orchestra. [5]
The songs are: [4] "The Big Chariot" "The Old Lute" "The Autumn Wind" "The Herd-boy" "Depression" "Dance Song" In 1959, the critic Jeremy Noble wrote "as a whole, they make a statement about life (and particularly the transience of youth and beauty) as poignant and personal as Mahler's own settings from the Chinese". [5]