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2. Chinese traditional music - Wikipedia

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   Chinese traditional music. 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 ...

3. Mo Li Hua - Wikipedia

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   Mo Li Hua. " Mo Li Hua " (Chinese: 茉莉花; pinyin: Mòlìhuā or Mòlihuā [a] [1]; lit. 'Jasmine Flower' [b]) is a Chinese folk song of the "xiaoqu" ("short song") tune type genre, hailing from the Jiangnan region which encompasses the lower banks of the Yangtze river around Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou. [2][3] The song has been typically ...

4. Music of China - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Jiangnan sizhu - Wikipedia

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   Jiangnan is the traditional name for the area south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze river in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, and northern Zhejiang. Sizhu , literally "silk and bamboo", refers to string and wind musical instruments, silk being the traditional material from which strings have historically been made in China, and bamboo being the ...

6. China National Traditional Orchestra - Wikipedia

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   The China National Traditional Orchestra was founded by composer and conductor Li Huanzhi (1919–2000), [18] [19] the former chair of the Chinese Musicians' Association. CNTO's current president and producer is musician and ethnomusicologist Xi Qiang, [16] [20] who is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

7. Shidaiqu - Wikipedia

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   Terminology. The term shídàiqǔ (時代曲) literally translates to 'songs of the era' in Mandarin Chinese. When sung in Cantonese, it is commonly referred to as jyut6 jyu5 si4 doi6 kuk1 (粵語時代曲); in Amoy Hokkien, it is known as hā-gú sî-tāi-khiok (廈語時代曲). These terms incorporate the native names for the dialects. The ...

8. Ruan (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings. Its four strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th century they have been made of steel (flatwound for the lower strings). The modern ruan has 24 frets with 12 semitones on ...

9. Music of Northeast China - Wikipedia

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   Music of Northeast China is tied closely to the region's history. Musical traditions of the Bang Zi Theatre and folk instruments such as the Dizi, Xiao and Baijiao Gu originate in the region. Folk songs from the north east are noted for their contributions toward nationalistic music the popular communist-era song “ The East is Red ” based ...