Folk Music of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folk Music of China write by Stephen Jones. This book was released on 1998. Folk Music of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book opens the door on the magnificent living traditions of folk music in rural China. Stephen Jones's book illustrates the beauty and variety of these folk traditions, from the plangent shawm bands of the rugged north to the more mellifluous string ensembles of the southeastern coast. Working closely with the Music Research Institute in Beijing, Stephen Jones has used his fieldwork in China to write a book offering a rare insight into the riches of these traditions. It opens up a country where for the outsider official culture still largely obscures folk traditions, and where revolutionary opera and kitsch urban professional arrangements still dominate our image of Chinese music. The book is in three parts. Part one, The Social Background, discuses the turbulent history of folk ensembles in the twentieth century and the survival of folk ceremonial; part two outlines musical features of Chinese instrumental groups, such as scales, melody, and variation; part three gives practical introductions to some of the diverse regional genres.
Chinese Music
Chinese Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Music write by Jie Jin. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Chinese Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This accessible, illustrated introduction explores the history of Chinese music, an ancient, diverse and fascinating part of China's cultural heritage.
Folk Music of China
Folk Music of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folk Music of China write by Stephen Jones. This book was released on 1998. Folk Music of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook)
Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook) write by Joseph Johnson. This book was released on 2008-12-01. Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Educational Piano Solo). 24 songs in the Chinese tradition: Crescent Moon * Darkening Sky * Girl's Lament * Hand Drum Song * Jasmine Flower Song * Mountaintop View * Sad, Rainy Day * The Sun Came up Happy * Wedding Veil * and more. Features notes on each piece, exquisite illustrations, and a map of China.
Chinese Music and Musical Instruments
Chinese Music and Musical Instruments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Music and Musical Instruments write by Xi Qiang. This book was released on 2011-04-10. Chinese Music and Musical Instruments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With dozens of color photographs and insightful text, Chinese Music and Musical Instruments describes in detail the musical instruments with which a Chinese folk orchestra is equipped and their working and sounding principles. There are as many as a thousand different kinds of musical instruments in China. Only a tiny portion of them are used in an orchestra. The selection of musical instruments for an orchestra depends on how well they complement one another. A Chinese folk orchestra is composed of four sections: wind, plucked, percussion and bowed. This book is also devoted to the description of the development of classical Chinese music and the introduction of some music-related tales of profound significance. Chinese music is a big family composed of various distinctive types of music: Chinese folk music played at weddings, funerals or in festivals an fairs. The religious music played in religious services conducted in Buddhist and Taoist temples. Court music, which reached its zenith during the Tang Dynasty. The scholars' music based on Confucian thinking was the embodiment of the musical life of academia and refined music of this kind is still prevalent in today's society.
