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	Chinese Music - China Visa Service
		Chinese musical roots date back millennia - among archeological finds are a magnificent set of 65 bronze bells from the fifth century BC - and its forms can be directly traced to the Tang dynasty, a golden age of great poets such as Li Bai and Bai Juyi, who were also avid Musicians.
		New "revolutionary" music, composed from the 1930s on, was generally march-like and optimistic and, after the Communist victory of 1949, the whole ethos of traditional music was challenged.
		Folk music has a life of its own and tends to follow the Confucian ideals of moderation and harmony, in which showy virtuosity is out of place.
	www.visaexpress.net /china/china_music.htm (2262 words)

	Music of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music of China appears to date back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC).
		The Imperial Music Bureau, first established in the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), was greatly expanded under the Emperor Han Wu Di (140-87 BC) and charged with supervising court music and military music and determining what folk music would be officially recognized.
		Musical forms considered superstitious or anti-revolutionary were repressed, and harmonies and bass lines were added to traditional songs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_China (3188 words)

	Encyclopedia: Music of Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
		The most popular and famous form of Indonesian music is gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments that include metallophones, drums, gongs and spike fiddles along with bamboo flutes.
		Music and dance at the time was divided into several styles based on the four main courts in the area -- Surakarta, Yogyakarta, Pakualaman and Mangkunagaran.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Indonesia (2883 words)

	Music of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Holo folk music is most common today on the Hengchun Peninnsula in the southernmost part of the island, where performers sing accompanied by yueqin ( moon guitar), which is a type of two-stringed lute.
		The most distinctive form of Hakka music are mountain songs, or shan'ge, which are similar to Hengchun folk music.
		Taiwanese enjoyment of popular music often manifests itself on a practical level with the national obsession for KTV, a variant of karaoke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Taiwan (908 words)

	Music of China Articles and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Han folk music thrives at weddings and funerals and usually included a form of oboe called a shawm and percussive ensembles called chuigushou.
		They are sung by a woman accompanied by a flute and a lute, and the music is generally sorrowful and mourning, and typically deals with love-stricken women.
		Shanghai 's fiddle, flute and banjo music from teahouses are famous outside of China, and are wildly popular in the city.
	www.neohumanism.org /m/mu/music_of_china.html (2285 words)

	China Henan Normal University
		Music Department (formerly a specialty in the Art Department founded in 1993) was established in 1996 under approval of the Education Commission of Henan Province.
		The department has vocal music teaching and research section, dance teaching and research section, piano teaching and research section, theory teaching and research section musical instrument teaching and research section; it also has laboratories of digital piano, visual and studio appreciation, and chorus master, and rehearsal hall and concert hall.
		In the music building, there are all kinds of fields going for modern music teaching and various teaching facilities, which provide excellent environments for the education and teaching activities of the department.
	www.htu.cn /english/department4.htm (342 words)

	Henan
		Henan (河南 in pinyin : hé nán, Wade-Giles : Ho-nan), is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the middle east of the country.
		Henan Opera is a famous kind of opera in China.
		Henan is home to the Shaolin martial arts temple.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henan.html (223 words)

	Preservation - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		According to Chinese philosophical and musical theories, the five notes used in the Chinese pentatonic scale, known as gong, shang, jiao, zi, and yu, are believed to be metaphysically integrated with the cosmological universe.
		For example, Hakka zheng music found in Guangdong province is characterized by the frequent use of the thumb and middle fingers of the plucking hand, as well as a greater vibrato with slow tempo.
		By engaging in these kinds of musical activities, Ann believes she not only acquires a better understanding of the age-old traditions of her native culture, but also is inspired to view them within a broader transnational framework.
	www.flheritage.com /preservation/folklife/apprenticeship/yao_a.cfm (2178 words)

	Band Revives Buddhist Music
		But he does know the transformative powers of music, and at age 80 he is restarting his own Buddhist band of traditional music in Henan Province.
		But when it comes to Buddhist music, Master Longjiang is one of the most skillful musical monks at the monastery that was once known for its band and inspiring religious melodies.
		It became the crossroads for poets, artists, musicians, commoners and nobles because of its ties with the royal family and its outstanding music.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/148946.htm (377 words)

	China Henan Normal University
		Henan Normal University is one of the key universities directly under the provincial government, developed from the Science College of Henan University (founded in 1912) and Pingyuan Teachers College (found in 1951).
		It is situated in Xinxiang, a famous city in North Henan, which is at the junction of the Beijing-Guangzhou, Taiyuan-Heze Railways, nestling near Taihang Mountain to the north and facing the Yellow River to the south, and where the famous Muye Battle in the history of the Shang and Zhou dynasties once took place.
		Henan Normal University is one of the key normal universities directly under the provincial government.
	www.henannu.edu.cn /english/about2.htm (894 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Music before the 16th Century
		In the music performance they were having the dance, and with their drum or dholak, and it at once reminded me of my early life, for I was born in Central India, and I had seen this kind of dance.
		Music was essential to the pattern and texture of Greek life, as it was an important feature of religious festivals, marriage and funeral rites, and banquet gatherings.
		Musically, Dunstable's significant contribution to the theory and practice of composition in the early fifteenth century was the introduction of more melodic music and outlining chords as a part of the melody.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory35.htm (16233 words)

	Sounding Circle - Category: Music
		The discovery pushed the history of Chinese musical instruments back a further 3,000 years, yet musicologists have not found any historical accounts of this instrument, and the blank of several thousand years in the history of Chinese instruments is hard to explain.
		To date, musicologists and music historians have identified these spurious and doubtful Mozart works into their hundreds, among them songs, symphonies, serenades, concertos, chamber pieces, masses, requiems and smaller church works, an incomplete listing of which was published in the sixth Köchel edition in 1964.
		The music industry cannot hope to sue everyone using file sharing to find music as that would take hundreds of years and already the US legal system is complaining about the work the RIAA is heaping upon it.
	soundingcircle.com /newslog2.php/__cat/_c2246/Music (11616 words)

	Welcome to music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There is a fairly clear distinction between the two, although they had something in common in that bells and drums were the dominant musical instruments.
		Shang directly inherited the musical tradition of Xia, and developed it to a remarkably high degree.
		Music and dancing were important means of offering tribute, serving and entertaining the gods, as well as a channel linking the gods and men.
	english.ccnt.com.cn /?catog=music&file=010200&ads=service_001 (334 words)

	Chinese Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In a restrained classical music history going back to them only instrument for the on the best-known musical life through the two strings the catalog from each one blow hole and thailand.
		Today chinese music that has a reminder that his fans there is clearly designed for interpretation by the music incorporates malay indonesian chinese melodies but creates a broader harmonic system.
		The most chinese music has been selective for three types of the intonation is the first it looks similar to the folk melodies and louis koo lisa wang will be easily heard most popular among tibetans as a more than the han period around many phone calls as a passionately romantic.
	www.evopedia.com /chinese-music/WWUYMTGJPI.html (545 words)

	Henan
		Henan (), is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.
		Henan is often called Zhongyuan (中原 zhōngyuÃÂ¡n) or Zhongzhou (中州 zhōngzhōu), literally "central plains" or "midland"; this name is also broadly applied to the entire North China Plain.
		Henan is traditionally regarded as the source of Chinese civilization.
	www.elmundodeportes.com /henan.html (394 words)

	Chinese Music Society of North America
		Sin-yan Shen, a foremost authority on Chinese music and a virtuoso artist on the erhu, the python-skin vertical fiddle, the performance of this Orchestra is famous for its passion, virtuosity and provocative sound generated by its unique instrumentation.
		The Chinese Music Society of North America was organized in the 1960s to increase and diffuse the knowledge of Chinese music and to encourage international exchange.
		It is a surviving classic in the style of the Gujiao Hengchuiqu, ensemble music led by the flute, of the 8th century.
	www.chinesemusic.net /concert_lecture_info.php (2406 words)

	Music from a distance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In Nature for September 23 is a report of the examination of some musical instruments recovered from an early Neolithic burial site at Jiahu in Henan Province in China.
		It is conjectured that music making was part of a ritual setting of some kind.
		It is intriguing to think that a musical activity which we tend to associate with schoolchildren may have such an inconceivably ancient origin.
	www.pharmj.com /Editorial/19991023/comment/music.html (269 words)

	The Schoyen Collection: 7. Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The combination of string names and interval terms is used to describe the tuning procedure and the generation of the 7 scales and form a skeletal phonetic notation.
		The scriptorium of the Abbey is arguably the most important for the history and development of liturgical music in France in the Middle ages.
		It is the booklet containing the musical (not liturgical) classifications of the Gregorian antiphons and responsories with addition of the soloists' songs.
	www.nb.no /baser/schoyen/5/5.3/index.html (4110 words)

	Long-lost Melodies Amaze Visitors (Nov 10, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To revive such rich musical relics and build up a brand-new image, the provincial museum invested 300,000 yuan (US$36,200) into duplicating 20-odd ancient musical instruments, which were the most representative of the central plains culture over thousands of years.
		The replicas include bronze chime bells, a wooden drum with a tiger-shaped stand, a bone flute, which is made of animal bone powders, a gaudy lacquer-coated brocade se, which is a 25-string plucked instrument similar to the zither, fish-shaped stone chimes and the xun clay pipe.
		According to Ding, the oldest musical scores recorded today are believed to be those of the Tang Dynasty, discovered in the Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province, which have been deciphered by Chinese scholars after decades of research.
	www.chinatravelnews.com /news/nov-03/111003.htm (915 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Now, researchers in China think they have discovered what could be the oldest, playable musical instrument ever found.
		They were probably used to play music that Harbottle says was largely ritualistic.
		Chinese scientists are now trying to make replicas of the flutes, so that music can be played without risk of damage to the originals.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1999/09/22/56.cfm (560 words)

	Health Music, Asain New Age Health and Healing Music from Wind Records
		The music of Water resonates with and strengthens the kidney organ-system.
		The music of Fire resonates with and strengthens the heart organ-system, stabilizing the pulse.
		This album is a marriage of music with the principles of Chinese medicine in treating sleeplessness.
	www.spiritwinds.net /health_music.html (1144 words)

	Boston.com - Music - A&E
		Through his association with the Beatles (particularly George Harrison), Shankar introduced Western audiences to the lyrical beauty of his instrument and of Indian music.
		Gamelan music is native to Indonesia, particularly the islands of Java and Bali.
		The legendary Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka play sitar music together at Symphony Hall on Sept. 28.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2003/09/14/world_sidebar (395 words)

	Yang Ying - Biography
		Ying’s own music, a fusion of Asian and Western influences, may be described as a soulful cross between an Asian version of Itzhak Perlman (virtuostic stringed play) and Jean Luc Ponty (jazz and rock influenced innovative compositions for stringed instrument lead), and Bela Fleck (innovative funk and jazz fusion with traditional (bluegrass) music).
		Samples of the her music, as well as detailed liner notes providing background for each song, are available at the music store.
		Ying’s music and performances appeal to audiences across cultures and generations, and she has recently performed in venues as varied as Chicago nightclubs with younger audiences to concert halls with a decidedly more “mature” audience.
	www.yangying-music.com /bio/index.html (597 words)

	Guzheng Artist Lunlun Zou \| About guzheng, including guzheng music videos, guzheng MP3 music downloads and more
		In the music of of the Eastern Jin (317 - 420 AD) and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 - 581 AD), "qing shang yue" genre, which appeared after "xiang he ge", the guzheng was widely used to perform ethnic songs in the region of today's Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hubei provinces.
		This type of music may be compared to the typical Henan character, which is rustic, unreserved, witty, sometimes shrewish to the point of being unkempt.
		Hakka guzheng music is mainly derived from the music of Han Opera and the ancient tunes of Zhongzhou (music from Henan).
	www.guzheng.idv.hk /en/guzheng.php (3441 words)

	SF Guzheng Music Society - Chinese Music
		The exquisitely-crafted flutes are all made from the ulnae, or wing bones, of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis Millen) and have five, six, seven or eight holes.
		It is an ancient music preserved by the Naxi people, an ethnic group from Lijiang, a remote town in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.The first is called "Baisha Xiyue" (White Sands and Elegant Music), which is played on traditional string and woodwind instruments.
		The other type is "Dongjing Music" (Cave Scripture Music) which originated from Taoist and Buddhist ritual music and was "imported" to Naxi from Jiangsu and Sichuan provinces after the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907)...
	www.guzheng.org /Text/chin_music.htm (426 words)

	Audiences, Patrons, and Performers in the Performing Arts of Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This workshop is presented by Zhou Qinru, Editor of the Journal of Music in China, composer, music analyst, former conductor and composer with the Beijing Jingju Theatre from 1969 to 1978.
		Ritual music from some remote part of a country may be put on a stage in a large city or it may be used for tourism.
		Wu Zhao, born in 1935 in Suzhou, is a prominent music historian at the Beijing Music Research Institute.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /oideion/general/audiences/contents/preprog.html (5394 words)

	Hua Xia Ancient Music Arts Orchestra
		The music of Zheng Wei, the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods, was most representative of the new-generation music, tirelessly entertaining the audience.
		The music instruments unearthed in Henan in recent years have drawn worldwide attention, because of the diversity and quantity.
		Chinese musical archaeologist has always been the treasured, constant pursuit for unaccountable Chinese musical archaeologists and temperament specialists to have such an imitated performance made utilizing those fine instruments.
	www.chnmus.net /html/20060530/463694.html (373 words)

	AM Archive - Ancient Chinese music
		For hundreds of music archaeologists meeting in Germany earlier in the month it was clear evidence that the world of scale music now has a much older starting point.
		NICK SMITH: It confirms that the Chinese have been using what we call the pentatonic system for an incredibly long time and that that system appears to be have been fixed for thousands of years without change.
		TOM O'BYRNE: But researcher Zhao prefers to consider it a worldwide discovery, it's tone and clarity of sound to be enjoyed and its age and design a new reference point for the study of music.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s202250.htm (573 words)

	Music in Ancient China
		The foundation tone was produced when Ling Lun, the founder of Chinese music and a scholar, went to the western mountain area of China and cut a bamboo pipe in such a way that it produced the correct sound.
		He is said to have travelled to a distant land and made a set of 12 flutes with bamboo.
		The 9,000 year-old, 8.6 inch instrument in pristine condition has seven holes and was made from a hollow bone of a bird, the red-crowned crane.
	www.crystalinks.com /chinamusic.html (328 words)

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