1st Edition

Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music

By Tsao Penyeh Copyright 1998
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1998. As a cultural entity of over five thousand years of history, Chinese music is a multi-faced phenomenon consisting of diverse regional and transregional traditions. Two large categories of Chinese music can be distinguished: music(s) of the Han nationality and music(s) of the ethnic nationalities. The present volume brings together ten articles written largely by native... Read more
Chapter 1 “The Running Waters”: Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music; Chapter 2 The Music Associations of Hebei Province, Xue Yibing, Stephen Jones; Chapter 3 Han Folk Song in China, Qiao Jian Zhong; Chapter 4 1This paper is translated by Mr. Gu Zongzhi, a teacher at the Guizhou Higher Arts Institute. I wish to express my gratitude for his assistance., Deng Guanghua; Chapter 5 Taoist Ritual Music in China, Tsao Penyeh;

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Tsao Penyeh