Introduction to Traditional Chinese Music

Author: Huang Yunzhen, Wang Can, Guo Shuhui
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Traditional Chinese music took shape and accumulated in China's long agricultural society; it innovated and developed through the inheritance of music cultures of various ethnic groups in different dynasties and the integration with foreign music cultures; it is the crystallization of thousands of years of Chinese civilization. It embodies the artistic concepts and musical talents of people from all ethnic groups, regions, and social strata in China. With its unique historical background, creative groups, morphological features, inheritance methods, and cultural heritage, it shines brightly in the world's musical treasury. This textbook has the following features:
1. Textbook Structure: The music system of traditional Chinese music is the main focus, with some included in the European music system and the Persian-Arabic music system. It mainly consists of four parts: folk music, literati music, court music, and religious music.
2. Genre Classification: Traditional folk music refers to music that is produced and circulated among the general masses. It has characteristics such as folkloric origins, life-oriented content, improvisational performance, and ethnic and regional styles.
3. Morphological Analysis: Unlike similar textbooks that often describe musical features based on song types, musical types, melodic types, and dramatic types, this textbook takes a holistic approach, providing comprehensive explanations and analyses of various genres within folk songs, instrumental music, quyi, and traditional opera in terms of their musical features.
4. Explanatory Style: The explanation of each genre in this textbook is uniformly structured into three sections: genre definition, performance categories, and musical features. The textbook mainly consists of four parts: folk music, literati music, religious music, and court music. The genre classification is clear, the morphological analysis is in-depth, the content is concise and straightforward; the expressions are refined and brief, making it easy for students to understand, master, and memorize, while also sparking their interest in learning.