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There are dozens of styles of folk music in China. Along with the Han folk music, the ethnic folk music that tourists might hear and most like includes the Tibetan, Uighur, and Dong folk music. The Miao are famous for their singing.
Chinese music, the art form of organized vocal and instrumental sounds that developed in China. It is one of the oldest and most highly developed of all known musical systems. Chinese music history must be approached with a certain sense of awe.
While both genres will sound vastly different from music produced in the West, Chinese folk music is somewhat similar to Western folk music as both can evoke the flavor of local culture and have a great degree of focus on instrumentation instead of voice and lyrics.
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]
The classical traditional music of the elites, the folk and ethnic music, and the favorite traditional Chinese instruments are "keynotes" for appreciating Chinese traditional music in general and enjoying it more!
And since then a lot of famous classic Chinese music masterpieces appeared in different Chinese dynasties. Below are the 10 most famous traditional music pieces: 1. High Mountains and Flowing Water (高山流水)
The main genres of music in China include traditional Chinese music, folk music, and popular music. Traditional Chinese music includes elements such as the use of pentatonic scales and the guqin, a seven-stringed instrument. Folk music includes regional styles such as Cantonese and Hokkien music.
Listen not only for music composed around the themes of love and marriage, play, work, religion, nature, and political propaganda, but also the variety of Chinese traditional instruments, including pipa (plucked string instrument), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), xiao (vertical end-blown flute), and yangqin (hammered dulcimer originally from Persia).
This outstanding ensemble of musicians — all trained in China— perform on traditional lute (pipa), fiddle (erhu), hammered dulcimer (yangqin), zither (qin), and mouth organ (sheng). This performance was recorded live in concert at the Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery of Art on April 29, 2002.
The guzheng (the Chinese zither) is the most popular traditional instrument in China. It has more than 2,500 years of history, and still remains the most-learned traditional instrument in Chinese...