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Traditional Chinese Ideas of MusicFor several thousand years Chinese culture was dominated by the teachings of the philosopher Confucius, who conceived of music in the highest sense as means of calming the passions and of dispelling unrest and lust, rather than as a form of amusement. The ancient Chinese believed that music is meant not to amuse but to purify one's thought. Classes of Musical InstrumentsIn Chinese music, the single tone is of greater significance than melody; the tone is an important attribute of the substance that produces it. Hence musical instruments are separated into eight classes according to the materials from which they are made---gourd (sheng); bamboo (panpipes); wood ( chu , a trough-shaped percussion instrument); silk (various types of zither, with silk strings); clay (globular flute); metal (bell); stone (sonorous stone) and skin (drum). Pieces of Chinese Traditional MusicThe following pieces are some of the masterpieces of the Chinese Traditional Music: • Autumn Moon over the PalaceBeing a well-known piece of Shandong Zheng music, it is musically different from the other piece with the same title for the erhu , for the pipa , for the qin . This piece seems to be expressing the human emotions of sadness, accusation and anxiety with slow slide makes the music even more downcast. • Three Variations of Plum BlossomThe scores first appeared in Mysterious Scores Of Qin , consisting of 10 sections with five coda sections resembling the five petals of Chinese plum blossom. The musical theme appears in 3 different regions of pitch, for which the name of the music, Three Variations of Plum Blossom, has been given. Originally the title of this music had nothing to do with its musical content, but due to the title itself, some people had suggested that the music could be a re-arrangement of an ancient piece for Chinese flute called Song of the Plun Blossom, which was a depiction of the noble and persistent image of Chinese plum blossoms. |