Chinese Music
Archaeological testimonys attest development of the Chinese music as of the Dynastie Zhou (- 1122, - 256).
According to Mencius, powerful had asked Mencius if it were moral that it prefers the popular music with the classical music. The answer was that only the pleasure that account there is taken.
The Imperial Office of Music, established starting from the Dynasty Qin (- 221, - 207), developed considerably under the emperor Han Wudi (- 140, - 87), and charged supervising the music of court, the military music, and with deciding popular musics which could be officially recognized. In the following dynasties, the musical development is subject to strongly the foreign influences, in particular those of Central Asia.
The melodies perceived in Occident as typically Chinese are those declined on the mode Pentatonique.
The notation of the Chinese music, is done using the Jianpu.
Chinese musical instruments
The Chinese instrumental music is played in solo or in small whole of rubbed cords or pinches, Flûte S, varied Cymbale S, and percussions. The flutes of bamboo and Yang qin are among the instruments known in the past; a whole of Chinese bells very old was recently updated. The instruments are traditionally divided according to their material of composition: skin, water-bottle, Bamboo, wood, Silk, clay, metal and stone. The Chinese traditional orchestras are composed of rubbed cords, of winds out of wooden, cords pinches and percussions. The oldest text concerning the music is allotted to Confucius. It is under the Tang that we arrived a rich person documentation on the Chinese music.
In old China, the statute of the musicians was much lower than that of the painters, being given the worship of the written thing characteristic of the Chinese culture. The musical theory was not very developed for this reason, although each emperor or almost seriously studied the music. Officers were sent to collect the popular music to measure the mood of the people. One of traditional the confucéens, the Traditional one of the Poems, contained a great number of popular songs going back to 800 with 300 before Jesus-Christ.
Wind instruments
- Bāngdí
- Bawu (巴乌)
- Dízi
- Dòngxiāo
- Hulusi (葫芦丝)
- Lusheng
- Sheng (organ with mouth, ancestor of the harmonica)
- Suŏnà (undoubtedly derived from the Zurna)
- Xiao
Rubbed string instruments
- Banhu
- èrhú (二胡) and zhonghu (中胡)
- Gaohu
- Jinghu
- Zhonghu (中胡, èrhú serious)
- For more information
String instruments pinches
External bond
- List of Chinese musical instruments with photographs and sound recordings
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