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Zou Lunlun (simplified Chinese: 邹伦伦; traditional Chinese: 鄒倫倫; pinyin: Zōu Lúnlún) is a player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither.. She is fourth-generation guzheng player in a family of musicians. [1]
Stringed music is prominent in China, especially in the Jiangnan region, where it is the name of all the instruments made from wood and string. This form of performance started from the Jin dynasty (266–420). [citation needed] The most common Chinese stringed instruments are the guqin, zheng, erhu, and pipa. These instruments were developed ...
The guzheng has been used in rock music by Chinese performer Wang Yong of Cui Jian, the English musician Jakko Jakszyk (on the 2011 Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins album A Scarcity of Miracles), J.B. Brubaker of August Burns Red on "Creative Captivity" from the 2013 album Rescue & Restore, and the virtual band Gorillaz on "Hong Kong" (from the 2005 Help!
Yao was born and raised in a well-known traditional Chinese musical family in Beijing, China. His grandfather, Cao Dongfu (曹东扶) was a famous composer and guzheng master, as well as one of the founders of the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. [1]
A reel of wire records, from the only extant collection of recordings of Abing's music Abing ( Chinese : 阿 炳 ; pinyin : Ābǐng ; 17 August 1893 – 4 December 1950), born as Hua Yanjun (simplified Chinese: 华 彦 钧 ; traditional Chinese: 華彥鈞 ; pinyin: Huá Yànjūn ) was a blind Chinese musician specializing in the erhu and pipa .
The concerto was written in 1959 by two Chinese composers, He Zhanhao (何占豪, born 1933) and Chen Gang (陈钢, born 1935), while they were students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While Gang was known as a top composer at the conservatory, He had previously worked for a Yue Opera troupe and was familiar with the ...
Erhu sound. The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.
The South Bend Tribune added: "Ma Xiaohui's Erhu is able to evoke not just traditional Chinese musical themes—the twitter of bird song or the distinct cadence and intonation of Chinese speech—but the emotional variety of Western music as well. She strives to span cultural divides and emphasizes the universality of music."