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Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history. This discipline has a very long history. Traditional Chinese music can be traced back to around 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic age.
Because the History of Song was prepared in a hurry and was the work of many editors, it contains a number of unavoidable errors and contradictions; [2] for example, an individual with two biographical entries is Li Xijing (李熙靖), who appears in chapter 116 of the historical biographies section then again in chapter 222. The work also ...
The music of China consists of many distinct traditions, often specifically originating with one of the country's various ethnic groups.It is produced within and without the country, involving either people of Chinese origin, the use of traditional Chinese instruments, Chinese music theory, or the languages of China.
Shi'er lü (Chinese: 十二律; pinyin: shí'èr lǜ; lit. '12 pitches'; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɻ̩˧˥ aɚ˥˧ ly˥˩]) is a standardized gamut of twelve notes used in ancient Chinese music. [1] It is also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale; it was only one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient
This is a timeline that show the development of Chinese music by genre and region. It covers the historic China as well as the geographic areas of Taiwan , Hong Kong and Macau . Dynastic periods
Whereas the historicism of the Ancient Airs and Dances for Lute (1917–31) by Ottorino Respighi is readily apparent to the ear, since the composer drew directly on the works of 16th- and 17th-century composers, the historicism informing the Music of Changes (1951) by John Cage, based on the ancient Chinese I Ching, is deeply embedded in the ...
The full title of the text is Zhouyi cantong qi, which can be translated as, for example, The Kinship of the Three, in Accordance with the Book of Changes. According to the well-established view in China, the text was composed by Wei Boyang in the mid-second century CE, and deals entirely with alchemy, in particular with Neidan (or Internal ...
Much of Chinese music history and theory remains unclear. [8] Chinese theory starts from numbers, the main musical numbers being twelve, five and eight. Twelve refers to the number of pitches on which the scales can be constructed. The Lüshi chunqiu from about 238 BCE recalls the legend of Ling Lun.