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...
Ancient Chinese Music and Foreign Exchange
The music cultural exchange between Chinese people and foreign nations in ancient times was recorded in Li's Spring and Autumn Annuals:Ancient Music.In it,the Yellow Emperor gives Ling Lun,a music...
The Birth of New Chinese Opera
After "MTay 4th" New Culture Movement, opera, a large integrated art form from Europe came to China with the incoming western culture, which also caught the concern and was used by Chinese c...
Chinese Music of the Qin and Han Dynasties
The Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), as a centralized empire, was the first to establish an official organization a music institute for music management for both political and cultural unification.The offici...
Suzhou Tanci
Tanci (storytelling) is the representative variety in South China, mainly popular in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River region, with three places-Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai as the center, and...
The Music of Jingyun Dagu
The music of Jingyun dagu has a rich variety of banqiang (tunes), complete structure,beautiful melody,distinctive rhythm,and very expressive. It is good at significant interval jumping,and utilizing m...
Chinese Quyi Music
After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, according to statistics, more than 400 quyi types are actively practiced among the people. The quyi types of the Han Chinese can be rough...
