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The Butterfly Lovers -- Violin Concerto |
| The music of Liang Zhu, or "Butterfly Lovers," is undoubtedly the best-known and most popular in all of China. It is also one of the few Chinese pieces that have often appeared on the international stage. |
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Harvest Drum -- A Special Instrument
Harvest Drum is popular among regions of Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Anhui provinces. It's a kind of feature instrument used mainly by the Han and Manchu people.
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Yangguan San Die (Adios at Yangguan)
Yangguan San Die (Adios at Yangguan) is a piece of music played with Guqin according to a poem written by Wang Wei, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
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Dance of the Yi People
Dance of the Yi People, composed by Wang Huiran in 1960, is a classical Pipa composition that airs a sense of happy life and can be heard almost everywhere in China.
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Music Instruments
In China, music instruments are classified according to the material, not according to the generated sound or the construction method like in the West. |
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Origins and Characteristics
Chinese music can be traced back as far as the third millennium B.C. Manuscripts and instruments from the early periods of its history are not extant, however, because in 212 B.C., Shih Huang-ti of the Ch'in dynasty caused all the books and instruments to be destroyed and the practice of music to be stopped. |
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