Chinese music Esther Christina Emily Bushra Xahra INDEX

Chinese music Esther, Christina, Emily, Bushra, Xahra

INDEX Traditional VS MODERN MUSIC -background/ context -instruments/ musical elements Modern -The changes -The things that remained the same Examples: -song/ dance Quiz~ (good luck~)

Traditional chinese music The 2 general music types ● Traditional: Refers to the sophisticated music that consists of artistic and poetic elements. The lyrics are often meaningful, with literature value to express feelings, and bring spiritual elevation.

Folk (music of the people) Apart from the Han Chinese, there are many other races living in every corner of China, each with their own traditional folk music. ● Folk songs are often vocal and they have the value of telling stories or legends. ● There also form music ensembles (similar to bands) while playing instruments or dancing to them.

traditional musical instruments

Instrument/ musical element Pipa- four string lute with 30 fret and pear shaped-body Liuqin-a smaller version of pipa with 4 string, which sound similar with mandolin. Ruan- commonly referred to as "Chinese guitar", is an ancient four-stringed moon-shaped lute with long and straight neck and various number of frets,

Plucked Instruments Zither: Usually made of phoenix wood, with a rectangular sound box and has 25 strings as of today. Was used as early as the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period, the Chinese zither become popular in the Qin State Guqin: It is a chinese musiclal instrument consisting 7 strings, belonging to the Zither family. The pitch is lower than that of a zither

Flutes Most common type: Zhu di (bamboo flute)

Traditional chinese music scale

Scale In the traditional chinese music scale, we can only see the C, D , E, G, A notes. ( in ancient chinese people call them “gong” “shan” jue” “zhi” and “yu”)

Modern chinese music Nowadays, most of the chinese traditional music are affected by the western music and forming a new genre of chinese music (such as pop and classical), some of the music keeps the traditional chinese musical features, for example, scale and the used musical instruments. here are the links of modern chinese music:

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Quiz time!!! Are YOU ready for the quiz? XD (NO XD)

QUESTION 1 1. who can name the note in the traditional chinese panatonic scale?

Question 2 2. who can name three of the traditional chinese musical instruments?

Questional 3 3. what are the two elements that traditional chinese music usually combined with?

Answer~~~ 1. poemtic elements about 1000 years ago, in Song Dinesty, first poem are first been put into music dramatically. EXAMPLE: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=hxb. Lu 23 hy. As&list=P LMKl 9 ut. Wiamz 4 A 6 avv. BW-r. FF 7 Rgi. Vy. MNc 1. artistic elements: In acient China, music started been played in many puppets and drama plays.

Refrences http: //www. philmultic. com/home/instrume nts/ http: //english. cri. cn/12514/2014/09/30/20 01 s 846101. htm