Grade 8 powerpoint presentation about the music of China, the different types of Chinese music and the different types of Chinese musical instrument.

1. MUSIC OF CHINA

2. MUSIC OF CHINA
•It refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the
music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities
within mainland China. It also includes music produced by
people of Chinese origin in some territories outside mainland
China using traditional Chinese instruments or in the
Chinese language. It covers a highly diverse range of music
fromthe traditional to the modern.

4. •Different types of music have been recorded in historical Chinese
documents from the early periods of Chinese civilization which, together
with archaeological artifacts discovered, provided evidence of a well-
developed musical culture as early as the Zhou dynasty (1122 BC– 256
BC).The presence of music in Zhou dynasty sets the tone to the continual
development of Chinese musicology in following dynasties. These further
developed into various forms of music through succeeding dynasties,
producing the rich heritage of music that is part of the Chinese cultural
landscape today. Chinese musiccontinues to evolve in the modern times,
and more contemporary forms of music have also emerged.

6. OPERA
•Chinese opera has been a popular formof entertainment for many
centuries, fromtheNanxi of Song dynasty to the Peking opera of today. The
musicis often guttural with high-pitched vocals, usually accompanied by
suona, jinghu, other kinds of string instruments, andpercussion. Other
types of opera include clapper opera,Pingju, Cantonese opera, puppet
opera, Kunqu, Sichuan opera, Qinqiang, ritual masked opera and
Huangmei xi.

9. FOLK MUSIC
•According to current archaeological discoveries, Chinese folk music
dates back 7000 years. Not only in form but also in artistic
conception, China has been the home of a colorful culture of folk
music. Largely based on the pentatonic scale, Chinese folk music is
different from western traditional music, paying more attention to
the form expression as well.

11. • Han traditional weddings and funerals usually include a formof oboe called a suona
and percussive ensembles calledchuigushou. Ensembles consisting of mouthorgans
(sheng), shawms (suona), flutes (dizi) and percussion instruments (especially yunluo
gongs) are popular in northern villages; their music is descended fromthe imperial
templemusic of Beijing, Xi'an, Wutai shan and Tianjin. Xi'an drummusic, consisting
of wind and percussive instruments, is popular around Xi'an, and has received some
commercial popularity outside of China. Another important instrument is the sheng,
pipes, an ancient instrument that is ancestor of all Western free reed instruments,
such as the accordion. Parades ledby Western-type brass bands are common, often
competing in volume with a shawm/chuigushou band.

13. •In southern Fujian and Taiwan, Nanyin or Nanguan is a
genre of traditional ballads. They are sung by a woman
accompanied by a xiao and a pipa, as well as other traditional
instruments. The music is generally sorrowful and typically
deals with a love-stricken woman. Further south, in Shantou,
Hakka areas, and Chaozhou, erxian and zheng ensembles are
popular.

15. • Sizhuensembles use flutes and bowedor pluckedstringinstrumentsto make harmoniousand melodiousmusic
that has becomepopular in the West amongsome listeners. These are popular in Nanjingand Hangzhou, as well
as elsewhere along thesouthern Yangtze area. Sizhuhas beensecularizedin citiesbut remains spiritual in rural
areas.
• Jiangnan Sizhu(silk and bamboomusic fromJiangnan) is a style of instrumental music, often played by amateur
musicians in teahouses in Shanghai; it hasbecome widelyknown outside of its place of origin.
• GuangdongMusic or Cantonese Music is instrumental music fromGuangzhouandsurrounding areas. It is
basedon Yueju(Cantonese Opera) music, together withnewcompositions fromthe 1920sonwards. Manypieces
haveinfluences fromjazz and Western music, using syncopation and triple time. This music tells stories and
myths, maybe legends.

17. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OF CHINA

18. ERHU
•This is one of the famous Chinese
instruments. This is a two-strings, violin-like
instruments played with a bow. This is a
melancholic sound.

20. PIPA
•This has four strings and thirty frets
on a gourd-shaped frame.

22. ZHENG
•This is an ancient Chinese
Instrument with thirteen to twenty-
one strings stretched over individual
bridges.

24. GUQIN
•This is a seven-string zither without
bridges

26. GUZHENG
•This is large with eighteen to twenty-
three strings. Ususally played by a
female, this is commonly played in
streets or parks.

28. DIZI
•This is a bamboo side-blown or
transverse flute with six
fingerholes.

30. XIAO
•This is a vertical end-blown flute
made of bamboo.

32. SUONA, LABA, OR HADI
•This is a blowing instrument like a horn. This has
a keen resonant sound effect need for drum
music, local opera and ballad performances.

34. SHENG
•This is a mouth organ similar to a panpipe
instrument with twelve or thirty-six bamboo
pipes.

36. CHING AND CHAP
•These are small cymbals. They
signal the entrances and endings
of a composition.

38. YU
•This is a tiger-like animal resting on a
sounding box. This is played to mark the end
of a strophe.

40. CANTOPOP
• Is a genre of popular music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese.
Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and
consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associatedwith Hong Kong
popular music fromthe middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of
popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowlydeclining in the 2000s and its slight
revival in the 2010s. The term"Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock",
a termfirst usedin 1974. Cantopop reachedits highest glory witha fanbase and
concerts reaching Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, SouthKorea, Japan
especially with the influx of songs fromHong Kong movies.

42. • Besides Western pop music, Cantopop is also influenced by other international
genres, including jazz, rock and roll, R&B, disco, electronic and others. Cantopop
songs are almost invariablyperformed in Cantonese. Boastinga multi-national
fanbase in Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia
and Indonesia, as well as in East Asian regions of SouthKorea, Japan, Taiwan and the
provinces of Guangdongand Guangxi in southeastern mainland China, Hong Kong,
and occasionally Macau, remain the most significant hubs of the genre. Examples of
some of the most significant figures in the Cantopop industry include: PaulaTsui,
Samuel Hui, Roman Tam, Jenny Tseng, George Lam, Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung,
Danny Chan, AnitaMui, Beyond, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Sandy Lam, Faye Wong,
Leon Lai, Aaron Kwok,Sammi Cheng, Kelly Chen, Eason Chan, and Joey Yung.

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