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Zou Lunlun (simplified Chinese: 邹伦伦; traditional Chinese: 鄒倫倫; pinyin: Zōu Lúnlún) is a player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither.. She is fourth-generation guzheng player in a family of musicians. [1]
Stringed music is prominent in China, especially in the Jiangnan region, where it is the name of all the instruments made from wood and string. This form of performance started from the Jin dynasty (266–420). [citation needed] The most common Chinese stringed instruments are the guqin, zheng, erhu, and pipa. These instruments were developed ...
Yao was born and raised in a well-known traditional Chinese musical family in Beijing, China. His grandfather, Cao Dongfu (曹东扶) was a famous composer and guzheng master, as well as one of the founders of the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. [1]
The guzheng has been used in rock music by Chinese performer Wang Yong of Cui Jian, the English musician Jakko Jakszyk (on the 2011 Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins album A Scarcity of Miracles), J.B. Brubaker of August Burns Red on "Creative Captivity" from the 2013 album Rescue & Restore, and the virtual band Gorillaz on "Hong Kong" (from the 2005 Help!
The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras.
The concerto was written in 1959 by two Chinese composers, He Zhanhao (何占豪, born 1933) and Chen Gang (陈钢, born 1935), while they were students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While Gang was known as a top composer at the conservatory, He had previously worked for a Yue Opera troupe and was familiar with the ...
The South Bend Tribune added: "Ma Xiaohui's Erhu is able to evoke not just traditional Chinese musical themes—the twitter of bird song or the distinct cadence and intonation of Chinese speech—but the emotional variety of Western music as well. She strives to span cultural divides and emphasizes the universality of music."
Dihu – low pitched two-stringed fiddles in the erhu family, in three sizes: Xiaodihu (小低胡) – small dihu, tuned one octave below the erhu; Zhongdihu (中低胡) – medium dihu, tuned one octave below the zhonghu; Dadihu (大低胡) – large dihu, tuned two octaves below the erhu; Dahu (大胡) – another name for the xiaodihu