Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).
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Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).
Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).
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Traditional Chinese music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles using string, wind, and percussion instruments. The main categories of traditional Chinese musical instruments are those made of skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, clay, metal, and stone. Some examples of traditional Chinese instruments mentioned in the document are the dizi (transverse flute), sheng (free reed mouth organ), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guqin (plucked zither), guzheng (plucked zither), pipa (lute), and ruan (lute).
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Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments
Group 4 Ma Pei Lan Kang Lin Tao
Traditional Chinese Music
Music in China is played on solo instruments
or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone
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Dizi Chinese transverse flute
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Sheng mouth-blown free reed instrument
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Gong
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Erhu Chinese two string fiddle
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Guqin "ancient stringed-instrument Plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument
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Guzheng or Gu zheng Belongs to the zither family of string instruments
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Pipa Plucked Chinese string instrument Chinese lute
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Morin Khuur Chordophone of Mongolian origin Played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands
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Suona Han Chinese shawm (oboe)
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Bianzhong / Ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically
