Horse-Headed Fiddle
The Horse-headed fiddle is a bowed stringed-instrument with a scroll carved like a horse's head. It is popular in Mongolian music. With a history of over 1,300 years, it even influenced European s...
Beijing Opera plays and Performance
Every Beijing opera troupe aims for a playable balance of role types. This balance is often described through analogy to a table whose top is supported by four beams that in turn are supported by four...
Instrumental Connectives
There are three major types of instrumental connectives large instrumental connectives (da guomen), small instrumental connectives (xiao guomen), and halfline instrumental connectives (banju guomen)....
The Influence of Western Instruments on the Development of Chinese Music
At the beginning of the 20th century,western music pushed open China's gates,and the Chinese gradually accepted western music instruments and learned performance and composition of instrumental mu...
Chinese Instrumental Connectives
The melodic orchestra plays instrumental connectives (guomen)that serve as preludes to the sung melodic passages, as interludes between them, and often as codas to them, instrumental connectives are t...
The Development of Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments in the 20th Century.
Having gone through years of suffering and development,the erhu has had a very significant position in Chinese music.Through tireless exploration by several generations of performers and composers,the...
The Development of Musicals Before the Establishment of the People's Republic of China
In recent years, due to an increasing introduction of Western musicals, Chinese audiences have learnt more about this kind of arts. Many Chinese artists also try to make musicals with Chinese characte...
The Development of Chinese Folk Music in the Ming and Qing dynasties
The Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) saw the sprouting of capitalism in civil society. With the increasingly expanding citizen class, the music culture tended to be more secularized and further enr...
The Development of Chinese School Songs
In its long history,Chinese music has made many contributions to the world's music culture.It has integrated a great deal of foreign music.From the Chinese nation to foreign nations,from neighbori...
Chinese Music during the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin Dynasty, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
The period of the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin dynasties and the Southern and Northern dynasties (220-581) was one of turbulence caused by frequent wars. It also witnessed unprecedented...
