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It therefore included all Han Chinese music but excluded anything written for Western instruments. [3] In its broadest sense it includes all Chinese instrumental music, opera, regional folk genres, and solo pieces. Not everyone however agreed on its modern definition, and what constituted guoyue changed with time and locations. Originally it ...
Chinese traditional music includes various music genres which have been inherited for generations in China. [1] Specifically, this term refers to the music genres originated in or before Qing dynasty. [2] According to the appearance, the genres can be classified into instrumental ensemble, instrumental solo, theatre, shuochang, dance music and ...
The oldest extant written Chinese music is "Youlan" (幽蘭) or the Solitary Orchid, composed during the 6th or 7th century, but has also been attributed to Confucius. The first major well-documented flowering of Chinese music was for the qin during the Tang dynasty (618-907AD), though the qin is known to have been played since before the Han ...
Li Jinhui, known as the father of Chinese pop. C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (traditional Chinese: 漢語 流行 音樂; simplified Chinese: 汉语 流行 音乐; pinyin: hànyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè; Jyutping: hon3jyu5 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region).
Chinese rock music (2 C, 2 P) T. Chinese traditional music ... Guangdong music (genre) Guoyue; H. Hong Kong musical tongue twister; J. Jiangnan sizhu; L. Luogu; N ...
Quyi ("melodious art") and shuochang yishu ("speaking and singing art") are umbrella terms for over 300 regional genres of traditional Chinese oral performing arts. [1] Quyi is distinguished from xiqu (Chinese opera) by its emphasis on narration, as opposed to acting, although they share many elements including the same traditional stories.
Lively musicians playing a bamboo flute and a plucked instrument, Chinese ceramic statues from the Eastern Han period (25-220 AD), Shanghai Museum. Establishment of the Music Bureau to collect folk music. Buddhist art from the Yungang Grottoes, Datong, c. 465 AD (Northern Wei dynasty), showing musicians playing the pipa and sheng
Students wearing Hanfu and playing Gufeng music. Gufeng music (traditional Chinese: 古風 音樂; simplified Chinese: 古风 音乐; pinyin: gǔfēng yīnyuè; Jyutping: gu2 fung1 jam1ngok6) is a type of music genre by artists originating from the Greater China region, It is a kind of C-pop music with the background of Chinese legends, the style of Chinese folk songs and drama, the melody ...