Modern Instrument Guide

Author: Xu Xianling
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Music is a medium for people to express emotions and cultivate their sentiments. With the continuous progress of social life and the development of science and technology, music has become increasingly important in people's daily lives. The creation of music is inseparable from vocal and instrumental music. The origin of vocal music began with mimicking the calls of birds and animals, evolving into shouts with pitch and rhythmic variations, and it preceded the development of human instrumental music. In instrumental music, the earliest to develop and attract attention were percussion instruments, i.e., striking instruments. The emergence of materials like stones, wood, fruit shells, bones, and even drums as percussion instruments was abundant in all primitive societies. The ancient Chinese chime bells, for example, represent a higher form of percussion instruments with pitch variations. Next, wind instruments, or blowing instruments, also developed easily from the blowing of materials such as bone tubes, bamboo tubes, reed tubes, and conch shells. The ancient Chinese "xun" is one such example. As people's research on music deepens, the invention and improvement of new instruments have become inevitable. Through the relentless efforts of countless individuals, numerous modern instruments have been created, such as the piano, trumpet, clarinet, oboe, cello, viola, and violin. Among modern instruments, the guitar, violin, and saxophone are three highly representative instruments that are popular worldwide today. Below, we will introduce these three instruments separately.