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  2. 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 ...

  3. Shidaiqu - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Guoyue - Wikipedia

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    In the early 20th century, the term guoyue was widely used to distinguish between imported Western music and traditional Chinese music. It therefore included all Han Chinese music but excluded anything written for Western instruments. [3] In its broadest sense it includes all Chinese instrumental music, opera, regional folk genres, and solo pieces.

  5. Zhongguo feng (music) - Wikipedia

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    Zhongguo feng music is also increasingly being presented in more forms. For example, Chou and Fang's 2003 song, "The East Wind Breaks" (东风破; dōngfēng pò), from his fourth album Yeh Hui-mei adopts a typical Chinese melody, but is composed in an R&B style. The song is distinctive for the effect of "a musician playing a Chinese pipa in a ...

  6. Chinese traditional music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Category:Chinese styles of music - Wikipedia

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    Chinese rock music (2 C, 2 P) T. Chinese traditional music (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Chinese styles of music" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of ...

  8. C-pop - Wikipedia

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    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).

  9. Hokkien pop - Wikipedia

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    Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.