Chinese music has a long tradition with many regional styles and instruments. Some key types include Chinese opera music, orchestral music, and solo performances. Beijing opera is the most popular style of opera, known for its dramatic stories, large repertoire, and many performers and fans. Traditional Chinese instruments include the erhu fiddle, pipa lute, zheng zither, and others like the yueqin lute and sheng mouth organ. Music is meant to be simple, calm, and model proper behavior. Compositions aim for a magnificent beginning and ending, harmony, clarity, and smooth continuity.

2.  China has a long traditional music
tradition. Over the centuries, musicians
developed various styles of music and
invented or adopted many types of
instrument.

3. Chinese opera music
Ensemble or orchestra music
Solo instrument performance

4.  Beijing opera or Pecking opera- it is
the most popular Chinese opera -It
has created many first in Chinese
dramas; the abundance of
repertoires, the number of artist,
opera troupes and spectators.

6.  Simple
 Create serenity and calmness
 Facilitate the appropriate conduct in
the ceremonial context; and
 The instrument should be played
with correct technique as a model
for proper behavior.

7.  Magnificent beginning
 Harmonious
 Clear
 Musical structure should be easy to
understand
 Smoothly continuous

8.  Falsetto
 Solo rather than choral
 Melodic rather than harmonic
 Develop from sung poems and
verses with music

9.  Erhu-a two-stringed instrument
 Pipa-is a kind of lute with 4 strings.
 Zheng-looks like a zither

11. YUEQIN
A moon shape
lute with
shorter neck
and four
strings, played
with a
spectrum,
used for
accompanying
local operas.

12. PIPA
A four-stringed lute
with 30 frets and a
pear-shaped body.
Has extremely wide
dynamic range and
remarkable
expressive power.

13. ERHU
A two-
stringed
fiddle and
one of the
most popular
Chinese
instrument.

14. YUNLUO
A set of ten
small tuned
gongs
mounted on a
wooden
frame. Has
equal
diameter but
different
thickness.

15. ZHENG
Chinese ancient
instrument that
has an arched
surface and has
an elongated-
trapezoid with
13 to 21 strings
stretched over
individual
bridges.

16. DIZI
Is the
traditional
Chinese flute.
It can have a
membrane
over an extra
hole, to give
the
characteristic
rattle effect.

17. SHENG
Called Chinese
mouth organ
and looks like
a set of pan-
pipes with 12
to 36 bamboo
pipes.

18. PENGLING
small bells
made of high-
tin bronze,
without
internal
clappers.

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