Guzheng originated during the Warring Period more than 2,500 years ago in China. 5. Guzheng – ancient musical instrument from the Warring Period While many of these compositions have been lost over time, several still exist to delight listeners today. Compositions were passed from master to student over hundreds of years. The pipa has a long history with the Chinese people. Originally, the pipa was held at an angle, like a guitar, but during the Tang dynasty, an innovative musician held his pipa upright in order to stand out at a competition. 4. Pipa – a 2,000-year-old Chinese luteĪlso called the Chinese lute, the pipa is about 2,000 years old and one of the most popular instruments in China. Sometimes in grand ethnic orchestras, alto, mediant, and bourdon tones are played together. Among the traditional piped instruments, Sheng is most capable of performing harmonies. Sheng sounds bright and sweet, the alt of which is clear, the mediant (middle tone) soft, and the bourdon (low note) deep and loud. Later, Dou and the reed were made of copper. After the Tang Dynasty, performers began to make wooden Dou. A dozen bamboo pipes are arranged on top of the Dou. The cup-shaped Dou is made of calabash, and the blowtorch is made of wood. To make Sheng distinguishable from Paixiao, designers added bamboo reeds and a cup-shaped Dou to it. Sheng originally consists of several bamboo pipes bound together with ropes or wooden frames. Later, it was developed into an instrument with six holes, which was extremely similar to today's Xiao having six holes. In the 1st century BC, it became popular in the Yellow River region. D.), and it was then called Qiangdi, which was popular among the Qiang people in Sichuan and Gansu Provinces. The earliest Xiao appeared during the Han Dynasty (206B.C. 2. Xiao - an ancient Chinese flute and instrument of many moods It is often accompanied by the Chi, a bamboo pipe with eight holes. It can produce sound with a tamber similar to that of human voice, and is suitable for performing some lamenting aria. Xun is easily made of clay with an egg shape and there are no more than ten holes on the surface. When thrown it at the animals, the stone produced a whistling sound as the air flowed through the holes, which could have provided inspiration for early wind instruments. Ancient people used a kind of oval stone with naturally formed holes on it to hunt the preys. The instrument has been discovered along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River as Neolithic relics, and is believed to have been very popular in ancient China. It has a history of more than 7,000 years. Xun is one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments. Xun – one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments Unlike the European folk structure which normally goes ABABAB etc., as in modern pop music, Chinese folk songs have a structure of AAA, or if you count the development as a change then: ABC.In this top list we take a closer look at some truly remarkable ancient Chinese musical instruments. These pieces were written by taking a short theme and developing it in three sections, each section adding more complex ornaments and rhythms as it progresses. Unlike in most western music, any two notes were used as grace notes, rather than a tone gap. Grace notes are used instead of tonguing, a technique used by the bagpipes. We can tell this because the ornamentation of these pieces is very similar to that of the bagpipes, which were invented in India, and also surprisingly the penny whistle and other Celtic instruments.
This is also why, unlike most Chinese music, these pieces are not written in a pentatonic scale, but in a more middle eastern style. They were played mostly on wooden flutes, and thus the pieces that have survived till today are written in D, which is the key these early flutes were made in. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭhinese folk flute solos were written to tell the traditions and tales of various tribes in China, around the 12th century. ( November 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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