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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of Hubei
		Hubei is a province of China, known for the Huangmei and Chu opera styles and a wide array of folk songs; Huangmei opera is especially renowned, and has spread to Shanghai, Beijing and Anhui, among other places.
		Hubei borders Henan to the north, Anhui to the east, Jiangxi to the southeast, Hunan to the south, Chongqing to the west, and Shaanxi to the northwest.
		This music nevertheless, was overshadowed by the court ritual-ceremonial music, which was subquently reconstructed during the Han dynasty and called yanyue or "elsgant and refined music".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Hubei (1037 words)

	Music of Inner Mongolia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Inner Mongolia is a province of China, with traditions related to Tuvan music and Mongolian music.
		Musically, it is known for the Han shanxi opera tradition.
		Musical institutions include the China Inner Mongolia Nationality Music and Dance Opera Troupe and the Morin Khuur Society of China.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Inner_Mongolia (149 words)

	Hubei - Information from Reference.com
		Hubei has average temperatures of 1 - 6 °C in winter and of 24 - 30 °C in summer; punishing temperatures of 40 °C or above are famously associated with Wuhan, the provincial capital.
		Hubei is divided into 13 prefecture-level divisions (of which there are 12 prefecture-level cities and 1 autonomous prefecture), as well as 3 directly administered county-level cities and 1 directly administered county-level forestry area.
		Hubei is home to the ancient state of Chu, a local state during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that developed its own unique culture.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Hubei (1863 words)

	MuSic - meaning of word
		The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common one in musicology and performance.
		Speculative music theory, contrasted with analytic music theory, is devoted to the analysis and synthesis of music materials, for example musical tuning, generally as preparation for composition.
		Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
	www.wordsonline.org /Music (8377 words)

	China-related Topics MU-MZ Topic Center - China-Related Topics
		Music of Hebei Hebei is a province of China, known for its orchestral wind ensembles and the Huangmei opera.
		Music of Jiangxi Chinesemusic Jiangxi is a southeastern province of China.
		Music of Guizhou Chinesemusic Guizhou is a provinces of Chinaprovince of China.
	www.famouschinese.com /public/China-Related_Topics_MU-MZ.html (631 words)

	The History of Chinese Music
		The complete model of court and ritual ceremonial music, music education system, the variety of musical styles, the grand music offices, and instrumentation were seeds of music for the subsequent dynasties.
		In addition to the native court musical instruments, that is, the zithers, panpipes, transverse flutes, vessel flutes, and a variety of barrel-shaped, stick membranophones, bells and lithophones, there were several new instruments introduced during this period.
		Besides the prodigious publications and dissemination of qin music and practices, signficant musical developments of this period occurred in the area of urban centers such as Peking and Suyang (Suzhou and Yangzhou) were entertainment in nature.
	www-camil.music.uiuc.edu /musedex/taiwan/Chinese-history/ChHistory.html (2592 words)

	Study to Play Traditional Chinese Music Instruments
		Traditionally, Chinese musical instruments were classified by the material of which they were made, they include skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone.
		The Zheng, commonly known as Guzheng, is a plucked string instrument that is part of the zither family, related to the Japanese koto, the Vietnamese dan tranh and the Korean kayagum.
		Pipa music has been loved by Chinese people through centuries and there used to be a large repertoire of pipa music, a lot of them were lost, and some of them were handed down from generation to generation through individual artists and scholars
	www.damo-qigong.net /taoism/music.htm (2720 words)

	Hubei Travel / Wuhan Tour & Hotel / Cruise on Three Gorges / Jingzhou Museum / Yichang /
		Hubei, a province in central China and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, has so many lakes that it has acquired the nickname, 'Province of a Thousand Lakes'.
		Literature represented by the Songs of the South compiled by the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and music composed for bell chimes unearthed from the tomb of Marquis of Zeng in 1978, are epitomes of the famed culture associated with the ancient state of Chu.
		Hubei Museum is in the possession of nearly 200,000 cultural treasures, most of them associated with local history and revolution.
	www.chinatravelhub.com /regions/151hubei.htm (1838 words)

	The Binaural Source world music & miscellaneous CDs
		Playing reproductions of some of the tomb instruments, exquisite sounds and music are created by the musicians in the soaring environment of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, one of the most musically reverberant performing spaces in the world.
		Music by Marcello, Morricone, Vangelis, St. Preux, Kitaro mixed with a variety of enveloping binaural nature sounds that flow the music in and around you.
		Music of Martini, Beethoven, Bizet, Vangelis, Satie, Mozart and Anon.
	www.binaural.com /binscd.html (942 words)

	Common Musical Instruments in East and West: The Hydraulis of Dion and the Pai Xiao of China
		The bamboo, the cane and reed have given the inspiration for musical instruments and were this material not available in nature, the flute and the multiflute may have never been invented.
		In 1992, during the excavations at Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus, a multiflute was discovered and declared "the earliest musical instrument of that kind".
		One of several musical instruments found was a multiflute, or pai xiao, of 13 bamboo tubes of different heights, fastened three rows by bamboo strips.
	www.greecetravel.com /archaeology/mitsopoulou/musicalinstruments.html (574 words)

	Music Conservatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The latter came from a musical family in the Zhongshan region, and he was well versed in China's musical tradition.
		In 7 BC, the Music Conservatory was abolished, most of the personnel dismissed being singers and musicians from the regions, with the others allocated to Ya yue duties.
		These were songs originally unaccompanied by music, and usually sung by one person, with others joining in as the song progressed.
	home.seechina.com.cn /html/music/1yf-e.html (518 words)

	MUHL 578: Linda Wang - TAN DUN
		Tan Dun's music is a vital expression of independence from the weight of Chinese history, and of self-assurance amid contemporary turmoil...Every part of Tan Dun's music is violent as a burst of human blood, yet full of grace, a voice of the soul.
		The music of his childhood made a deep impression on Tan, and continues greatly to influence his compositions today.
		Music which clearly separates the role of performer from listener, of orchestra from audience, seems usual to modern concert-goers.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/578/tandun.html (2090 words)

	Traditional Chinese Music Gets a Modern Sound
		"Music in Splendid Attire," an aural and visual feast newly presented by the National Orchestra of Traditional Chinese Music, is currently being performed in Australia with its fusion of traditional and modern elements.
		Audiences could enjoy the music played on such traditional Chinese instruments as erhu, guzheng, bamboo flute and crystal pipa, a modern adaptation of an ancient lute-like instrument using a crystal-like material.
		He said young people who think traditional Chinese music is something old and out of date actually know little about the music.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/164861.htm (540 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Schoenberg was really great in traditional Western music, and he also wrote all those books on harmony and counterpoint, but he jumped out from that frame and created the atonal system and all of its theory.
		My childhood was really Western music, but since then I worked in the countryside and later I worked with a song-and-dance troupe in Zhang Jia Kou, a small city near Beijing.
		I write music inspired by the culture around me. My cultural root is Chinese, and now my inspiration is a combination.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=4741 (2126 words)

	The Alamo Store: Asia Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Over the centuries, this migration has left its mark on the musical traditions of about half of the world's population; yet despite the recent interest in world music, much of the music of the Far East is still unfamiliar to Western listeners.
		For the casual listener, Asia Music, is the perfect introduction to some of the richest musical traditions in the world.
		For the aficionado of music, these recordings will provide the opportunity to hear a thought-provoking blend of the new and old, from musicians representing all of the major Eastern traditions.
	www.thealamofilm.com /shop.php?c=Music&n=63834&i=B0000007ZZ&x=Asia_Music (476 words)

	Culture and Custom in Kunming - Oriental Travel China Tourist Information
		There are more than 1000 tunes in the local opera, the vocal music of which sounds beautiful and lyrical, popular and easy to understand, and rich in flavor of life.
		National Music includes five main categories of folk songs, national musical instruments, local songs and dances and music, a genre of popular entertainment music (consisting mainly of talking and singing, and traditional opera music).
		In the civilization of all the nationalities, the performance of the local songs and instrumental music and the local songs and dances each has its own significant feature.
	www.orientaltravel.com /China/Kunming/Kunming_culture.htm (336 words)

	Music CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		hina's music springs from the vast, fertile soil of one of the world's most creative ancient civilizations.
		Inside the mausoleum of the Marquis Zeng Yi in Suizhou, Hubei Province, lay an ancient "Underground Palace of Music".
		Unearthed were more than 120 music instruments, including chimes, drums, bamboo flutes, zithers, and others.
	cht1.endiva.net /Washingtonpublishing/pub/LIT_14.asp (187 words)

	Schools of Daoist Music
		In terms of history, Daoist music can be traced back to shamanistic dance and music, and in terms of its geographic distribution, it is related to the spread of Daoism and is found everywhere in the whole country.
		Today, viewed in a macroscopic angle, the spread of Daoist music within China was initially established with the distinction of the two major systems of the Complete Perfection and Orthodox Oneness, and the respective styles of the two systems were perhaps formed with the formation of different Daoist sects in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
		Inheriting the Daoist music of the Tang and Song dynasties, the music of the Orthodox Oneness Tradition tended to be more integrated and regular.
	www.eng.taoism.org.hk /daoism&human-civilization/daoism-literature&art/pg5-2-4-3-intro.asp (479 words)

	Hubei Provincial Museum
		Edward and Lory, our guides while in China, said that the Hubei Provincial Museum was one of their favorites and we found out why today.
		Many of the items within the tomb bring archaeologists to believe that the tomb belongs to Marquis Yi of the State of Zeng, which was one of the hosts of the Warring States Period (475 221 B.C).
		Found within the tomb were 8 kinds of musical instruments, coffins, bronze ritual vessels (many for wine), gold and jade weapons, and inscribed bamboo.
	homepage.mac.com /awalter/Personal103.html (292 words)

	CLUAS \| Features \| CD Piracy in China
		Music piracy is worth an estimated 514 million euros every year in China, and Irish artists such as U2 and Enya are among those most pirated, losing millions of euros every year to a massive illicit trade.
		Fluffy-sweet and clean cut, F4 are a Westlife-style creation devised by producers to boost falling music sales and re-coup some of the revenue being lost to piracy and competing entertainment industries such as video games and reality TV.
		A recent letter from a music fan to the Shanghai Star sheds more light on why pirated music and films sell so well in China.
	www.cluas.com /music/features/piracy_china.htm (1227 words)

	Music
		Treasured musical pieces from former times include Eighteen Airs for the Fife and Guangling Verse (for the qin, a Chinese zither), Ambush on AII Sides (for the pipa, a plucked stringed instrument), and Evening by a River in Spring (for instrumental ensemble).
		One example, March of the volunteers, with music by Nie Er and words by Tian Han, is now the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
		Progress in music performance is closely related to the establishment of various professional music organizations and the popularization of their performances.
	www.chinaembassy-fi.org /eng/whys/t106245.htm (574 words)

	Music Festival Gathers Talent
		Organized by the Ministry of Education and the China Central Conservatory of Music, the one-week festival involved 17 colleges whose music education included conservatories of music, music departments at universities, music departments at teachers' schools and vocational art or music schools.
		While the students showcased their versatile musical skills, teachers from the schools attended forums to discuss ways to popularize classical music in universities and among the general public, and how to develop talented musicians instead of simple instrument players or singers.
		Guo Shuzhen, a soprano and one of the leading vocal professors now teaching at the Central Conservatory of Music, said she is proud to train a musician such as Wu Bixia, who is one of her favourite students and just won second prize in the vocal contest at the 12th Chaikovsky International Music Competition.
	www.china.org.cn /english/TR-e/37930.htm (1534 words)

	Veil of Mystery Still Surrounds Tomb
		The state, with its capital in Jiangling, Hubei, was one of the strongest among the seven and covered almost the whole of southern China in its prime.
		Li said the findings promoted research on ancient Chinese music, as an unearthed se, a 25-string plucked instrument similar to the zither, was the first complete one to ever be found.
		Some said the coffin of the No 2 tomb should be transported to the Hubei Provincial Museum in the provincial capital and opened there, but others objected for fear of possible damage in the transportation process.
	www.china.org.cn /english/culture/53242.htm (1410 words)

	TEMPLATE
		The citations for research publications in music history, music theory, and music education are similar in form to those of other disciplines; recordings, editions and arrangements of music, and original compositions are not far removed.
		This article was later reprinted in The Canadian Music Educator 40:3 (Spring 1999), 36-38, as well as in The British Columbia Music Educators' Association Newsletter XIX:1 (July 1999), 10-12.
		This was the first chamber concert in the history of the school, and most likely the first complete programme of chamber works exclusively for clarinets in all of China.
	www.uwo.ca /western/publications/199899/hmu.html (2436 words)

	Chinese Musical Instruments - Bronze Bells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The chimes were graded to sound a musical scale which is in C major of seven tine scale.
		Embracing the 12 chromatic scales, they produce with modulation melodious sound when ancient or modern complex music is played on them.
		Grand in scale and elaborate in casting technique, it was a miracle in the world histories of music and smelting."
	www.paulnoll.com /China/Music/mus-Marquis-Yi.html (220 words)

	The Imperial Bells of China
		Love songs and legends taken from two of the oldest collections of Chinese poetry combine with the traditional folk music from the Hubei Province, and the delicate sounds of Chinese classical music to create a vivid, richly varied experience of this ancient and colorful culture.
		The group's primary aim is to collect, study, and perform the folk music and dances of the Hubei Province.
		Extensive research in musical traditions of remote regions of China has led to the creation of a number of fascinating new works.
	www.harmonies.com /releases/17075.htm (551 words)

	My Kind of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As for other kinds of music, well we hear news about music mostly from radio, TV and newspapers.
		I think that for young people the best place to hear music in Wuhan is in bars and discos.We chat in bars, listening to the light music over a cup of tea, and we dance in discos, enjoying the rock music.
		Yu Boya was musically talented, and to relax he took out his gu3qi2n, a seven stringed zither, and began to play.
	thormay.net /rebecca/music.html (1465 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marquis Yi's tomb is located at Suixian county of Hubei Province and was excavated in 1978.
		Marquis Yi and a large number of music instruments and weapons were buried in the eastern chamber.
		The central chamber was decorated as a royal ceremonial hall with a set of bronze bells still hanging on their rack and bronze ritual vessels neatly arranged in rows.
	curriculum.calstatela.edu /courses/hist494a/music/marquisyi.htm (304 words)

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