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  2. Peking opera - Wikipedia

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    The two main musical styles of Peking opera, Xipi and Erhuang, originally differed in subtle ways. In the Xipi style, the strings of the jinghu are tuned to the keys of A and D. The melodies in this style are very disjointed, possibly reflecting the style's derivation from the high and loud melodies of the Qinqiang opera of northwestern China.

  3. Shengqiang - Wikipedia

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    Shengqiang (simplified Chinese: 声腔; traditional Chinese: 聲腔; lit. 'vocal tune') is a concept in Chinese opera which helps to categorize its hundreds of regional genres by the music played during arias. Classifying by the music, as opposed to the regional dialect, also helps to understand a genre's evolutionary history.

  4. List of opera genres - Wikipedia

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    This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first commonly used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public.

  5. Theatre of China - Wikipedia

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    Hanju Opera, popular along the Yangtze River and Hanshui, also became popular, and the mixing of Huizhou and Hanju produced the Peking Opera. [52] Peking opera inherited many stories form Kunqu opera, but other styles of opera, such as the Clapper opera, which were popular with the common people had greater influence on its development.

  6. Ritual opera - Wikipedia

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    In Taiwan, in the early days, it was Beiguan music, Gaojia opera, Taiwanese opera, and Glove puppetry, but after the restoration, it was mostly Taiwanese opera and Glove puppetry, and even Puppetry and modern Drama are available, and in recent decades, Film has also been shown to honor the gods. In mainland China, the performance of Shinto ...

  7. Chinese opera - Wikipedia

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    An early form of Chinese drama is the Canjun Opera (參軍戲, or Adjutant Play) which originated from the Later Zhao Dynasty (319–351 AD). [10] [11] [12] In its early form, it was a simple comic drama involving only two performers, where a corrupt officer, Canjun or the adjutant, was ridiculed by a jester named Grey Hawk (蒼鶻). [10]

  8. Category:Peking operas - Wikipedia

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    You and Me (Peking opera) This page was last edited on 26 August 2018, at 04:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  9. Category:Chinese opera - Wikipedia

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    Peking opera (5 C, 17 P) Ping opera (1 C) Q. Qinqiang (3 P) S. ... Pages in category "Chinese opera" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.