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)....
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...
Improvement of Chinese Instrumental Music
Since the 20th century,the development of instrumental music in China has undergone a process from blind self-content to total negation to rediscovery and utilization,gradually moving from immaturity...
Suona, a traditional Chinese musical instrument
The suona is a world musical instrument, widely spread in more than 30 countries in Asia,Africa, and Europe.The suona emerged in China in abouit the third century. There is an image of a musician play...
Traditional Chinese musical instruments made from bamboo
The naturally hollow interior of bamboo is believed to be symbolic of humility and modesty, its hardiness in winter of human endurance and longevity. Over a dozen flute names appear in Zhou texts,thou...
Ancient wooden musical instruments in China
Several highly idiosyncratic percussion instrumients are included within this category, all with strong symbolic associations. The idiophone known as zhu is essentially a wooden box with outward slopi...
Silk and Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments
Silk is the traditional material used in construction of strings.The Liji (Record of Rituals, c. Ist century BC) suggests that silkstrings represent 'puri- ty'(lian) and 'determination'...
Traditional Chinese percussion instruments and wood
Several highly idiosyncratic percussion instruments are included within this category,all with strong symbolic associations. The idiophone known as zhu is essentially a wooden box with outward sloping...
Traditional Chinese Musical Instrument, Sheng
The sheng is the earliest reed pipe wind instrument in China, and the world's first musical instrument with the use of free reed. It makes sounds through the combination of the reed and pipe, and...
