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Guangdong music, also known as Cantonese music (廣東音樂 Jyutping: gwong2dung1 jam1ngok6, Yale: gwóng-dūng yām-ngohk, Pinyin: Guǎngdōng yīnyuè) is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from Guangzhou and surrounding areas in Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province on the southern coast of China.
Music of Guangdong is a synthesis of a number of local Guangdong folk music styles.. In modern times, the Chinese province of Guangdong has become known for Guangdong music (later Guangdong folk tunes), a synthesis of a number of local folk music styles (like kunqu opera), intended as an accompaniment for the region's folk operas when it arose along the Pearl River Delta in the 1920s.
During the Kangxi period, two books, Lülü Zuanyao (律呂纂要) written by Xu Risheng and Lülü Zhengyi — Continuation (律呂正義·續編), became the earliest formal introduction of European music theory knowledge in Chinese literature. These two books explained European music's fundamental theories and practical techniques in an in ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. Guangdong music may refer to: Music of Guangdong; Guangdong music (genre), a genre of music also known ...
There is a Music and Dance Festival of Fujian Province, a Baihua Arts and Cultural Festival of Fuzhou Municipality. The cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou have applied to UNESCO for recognition as masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. Musical institutions in Guangdong include the Guangdong International Summer Music Festival.
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