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The tune has been adapted and referenced in "various traditional Chinese and international music concert circuits, concerts by pop bands and solo singers, scholarly debates, new choral arrangements, and state-sponsored events as an emblem of national pride" [10] and has been called a "significant national musical and cultural icon" of China ...
All traditional Chinese music is melodic rather than harmonic. Chinese vocal music probably developed from sung poems and verses with music. Instrumental pieces played on an erhu or dizi are popular, and are often available outside of China, but the pipa and zheng music, which are more traditional, are more popular in China itself.
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).
Guo Yue (simplified Chinese: 郭 跃; traditional Chinese: 郭躍; pinyin: Guō Yuè; born 1958) is a virtuoso of the dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) and bawu (Chinese free reed pipe). [1] He was born in Beijing, China. He plays a wide range of the bamboo flute and currently lives in London. He has recorded for Peter Gabriel's Real World label. He ...
Shidaiqu (Chinese: 時代曲; pinyin: shídàiqǔ; Wade–Giles: shih 2 tai 4 chʻü 3; Jyutping: si4 doi6 kuk1) is a type of Chinese popular music that is a fusion of Chinese folk, American jazz and Hollywood film music that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s. [1] [2]
Geji (Chinese: 歌妓、歌伎、歌姬; lit. 'singer-performer') were female Chinese performing artists and courtesans who trained in singing and dancing in ancient China. [1] [2]: 119 During the Warring States Period, a legendary figure named Han'e is believed to be the first example of a geji.
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 ...
Cantonese opera shares many common characteristics with other Chinese theatre genres. Commentators often take pride in the idea that all Chinese theatre styles are similar but with minor variations on the pan-Chinese music-theatre tradition and the basic features or principles are consistent from one local performance form to another.