Musical instruments of traditional Chinese

Traditional Chinese musical instruments can be played solo, or together in a large orchestra (such as the ancient royal palace) or in groups of small mandarin music. No ancient music ensemble conductor in China, or the use of sheet music during performances. Music usually has memorized by musicians, and then played without the tools, so teamwork is very much needed. But nowadays the score or conductor is required, if the musician is pretty much

Chinese musical instrument is distinguished by:

1. According to Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments How to Wear it

Stringed instrument
China is the erhu fiddle, his use of snake skin as a membrane, using two strings, which is swiped by the bow made of horse tail.
Gaohu is kind to the erhu, only a tone higher.
Gehu is a stringed musical instrument to a low tone, like a cello.
Rebab Banhu is China, with a body made from coconut shells with a wooden board as a membrane.

Stringed instruments
Liuqin is a small stringed instrument shaped like a pear with 4 strings.
Yangqin is this instrument has a lot of strings, how to play by hitting with a bamboo stick as a bat.
Stringed instrument pipe is pear-shaped with 4 or 5 strings.
Ruan is a stringed musical instrument with four strings are round.
Sanxian is a stringed instrument with a body made of snake skin and a long neck, has 3 strings.
Guzheng is a lute with 16-26 strings.
Harp Konghou is China.

2. China Musical Based Sources reads

Wind instrument
Flute dizi is using vibrating membrane.
China is the trumpet suona
Sheng is a musical instrument that uses a metal blade with bamboo tubes as a source of sound.
Xiao shaped like a flute.
Paixiao pipe shaped like a pen.
Gudi is shaped like an ancient flute made of bone

Percussion instruments (percussion)
Paigu shaped like a drum consisting of a set of 4 or more.
Tambour is shaped like a big chin.
Chazi shaped like a cymbal, cengceng.
Luo shaped like Gong.
Muyu shaped like Kecrek made of wood.

3. Functions Based on Musical Instrument China

Aerophone

Dizi-shaped transverse bamboo flute with buzzing membrane
Xiao shaped like a flute which is also called the dongxiao
Shaped like an ancient Chi transverse bamboo flute
Xindi shaped like a modern transverse flute with a total of 21 holes
Koudi shaped like a very small transverse bamboo flute
Suona shaped like a trumpet China

Chordhophone

Yazheng shaped like a sitar is also called yaqin
Konghou China is shaped like a harp.
Guzheng is shaped like a lute with 16-26 strings.
Leiqin shaped like a violin with piano keys
Pipe stringed musical instrument shaped like a pear with a 4 or 5 strings.

Membranophone

Bofu shaped like an ancient drum that is used to set the tempo
Tanggu is shaped like a medium sized barrel drum played with two sticks; also called tonggu or xiaogu
Yaogu shaped like a waist drum
Bajiao gu tambourine eight square shape is used primarily in narrative singing of northern China
Paigu shaped like a drum consisting of a set of 4 or more.

Idiophone

Luo is shaped like a gong
Zhu shaped like a wooden box, played with a bang stick on the inside, used to mark the beginning of music in ancient ceremonial music

Yu shaped like a percussion instrument in the form of a carved wooden tiger with a serrated, used to mark the end of the music
Muyu shaped like a woodblock carved in the shape of fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting
Paiban shaped like a clapper made of several pieces of flat wood.

Metallophone

Dangzi of the small, round, flat, tuned gongs suspended by silk tied with a rope in a circular metal frame mounted on thin wooden handle is also referred to Dangdang. Bianzhong bronze bells hung on a shelf, struck using poles, as set forward Fangxiang metal slabs
Bronze drum, shaped like Luo Gong.

History of Traditional Chinese Music

China's historic old national music. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's national music has experienced tremendous growth. Over the past dozen years, China's national musicians performing in a country other than, also often performed in foreign countries. Since 1998, China Central National Music Orchestra has a row for the five-year national concert held on the day of the Spring Festival of China in the Golden Hall of Vienna Austria, and this has become one of the important events in musical life in Vienna. In addition to the Golden Hall of Vienna, Chinese traditional music is also performed in many other stage in the world, among others, the U.S. Carnegie Music Hall and the Hall of the United Nations in Geneva. The show attracted national musician China lets the world appreciate the privilege of traditional Chinese music.

Assessment of both the audience at home and abroad are also encouraged composers to create more works of Chinese music and distinctively Chinese nation today. Traditionally, the national music performances are held mostly in the form of a concerto or solo, whereas now many young musicians in a creative and flexible hold musical performances by combining different kinds of musical instruments, so that the audience liked the show.

Chinese traditional music played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and string, flute, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. Pentatonic scale. Bamboo pipes and qin is one of the oldest known musical instruments from China, the traditional instruments they are divided into categories based on the composition of matter, namely: animal skins, gourds, bamboo, wood, silk, sand / clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bow string, woodwinds / brass, string and percussion quotation.

Instrument
Woodwind and percussion
dizi, sheng, paigu, gong, paixiao, guan, bells, cymbals
String subject
erhu, zhonghu, Dahu, banhu, Jinghu, gaohu, gehu, Jehu, cizhonghu, diyingehu, leiqin
String of friction and in time.
guqin, sanxian, yangqin, Guzheng, Ruan, konghou, liuqin, pipes, zhu

Traditional Chinese vocal music has been sung with a voice soft, non-resonance or in a high voice and is usually solo rather than choral. All traditional Chinese music form harmonious melody. Chinese vocal music is usually developed from poems and verses sung to the music. Instrumental pieces played on the erhu or dizi are popular, and often available outside of China, but the pipes and zheng music, which is more traditional, more popular in China itself. Yang qin instruments may be the most admired in China, though very few people know what it is or see and hear when being played. The zheng, a form sitar, the most popular in Henan, Chaozhou, Hakka and Shandong. Pipe, a kind of lute, believed to have been introduced from the Arabian Peninsula from the 6th century and adopted the Chinese taste. This is the most popular in Shanghai and surrounding areas.

Ethnic Han music
Han China consists of 92% of the population of China. Ethnic Han music consists of heterophonic music, where musicians play versions of a single melody. Percussion is usually accompanied by the music, dance, talk, and opera. Ethnic Han Chinese music has incorporated many aspects of the meaning, feeling, and tone of voice. This musical genre, has a flavor, similar to the Chinese. This relationship is created by the tone, the tone of an pergeser high to low tones, or lower tones to higher tones, or a combination of both. This similarity means that the instrument is a very important part in mastering the technique with the left and right hand (left hand is used to create the string tone, the right hand is for plucking or picking the strings), especially for classical (literary) tradition. Sometimes, it can be put in singing the music to create harmony or melody that accompanies the instrument. Han Chinese folk music featured in the poem, with a soothing slow tempo to express feelings that connect with the audience or anyone that displays it. Han Chinese folk music delivered dengansebuah way, using silence that change its meaning, it also creates a sound similar to poetry.