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Chinese musicology is the academic study of traditional Chinese music. This discipline has a very long history. This discipline has a very long history. Traditional Chinese music can be traced back to around 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic age.
Chinese opera music is mainly composed of singing (vocal singing and aside) and instrumental accompaniment. [30] Chinese opera accent: There are different types of drama in different regions, but they all have similarities. The four major accents in modern times are Kunshan accent (Kunshan), high accent , Pihuang accent, and Bangzi accent. [31]
Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories (classified by the material from which the instruments were made) known as bā yīn (). [1] The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not fit these groups.
Lively musicians playing a bamboo flute and a plucked instrument, Chinese ceramic statues from the Eastern Han period (25-220 AD), Shanghai Museum. Establishment of the Music Bureau to collect folk music. Buddhist art from the Yungang Grottoes, Datong, c. 465 AD (Northern Wei dynasty), showing musicians playing the pipa and sheng
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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 ...
Shi'er lü (Chinese: 十二律; pinyin: shí'èr lǜ; lit. '12 pitches'; Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɻ̩˧˥ aɚ˥˧ ly˥˩]) is a standardized gamut of twelve notes used in ancient Chinese music. [1] It is also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale; it was only one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient
The earliest music notation discovered is a piece of guqin music named Jieshi Diao Youlan (Chinese: 碣石調·幽蘭) during the 6th or 7th century. The notation is named "Wenzi Pu", meaning "written notation". The Tang manuscript, Jieshidiao Youlan (碣石調·幽蘭) The tablature of the guqin is unique and complex.