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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Chinese music"”.
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Snow Spell: An Interactive Composition for Erhu, Flute, Piano, Cello, and Max/MSP
… cello, piano, and Max/MSP interactive computer music system. This one-movement piece, Snow Spell, is intended to depict the beauty of a snow scene by presenting four different impressions of snow envisioned by the composer through music. The definition, history, and significance of interactive …
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Music preferences, music and non-music media use, and leisure involvement of Hong Kong adolescents.
… responses to grade, gender, familiarity, musical training, peers'/parents' listening habits, music media use, and listening contexts. Grade six through nine Hong Kong students (N = 310) completed the audio preference test followed by verbal responses to training, peers'/parents' …
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Folkloric and Ethnic Elements in Four Chinese Trumpet Compositions
… the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Chinese trumpet repertoire through an analysis of four representative compositions: Dancing in the Moonlight(n/a) by Hesheng Wang, Driving Cart (1961) by Jiazhou Tao, The Spring of Pamirs (1972) by Ping Luo, and Gada Meilin Theme and Variations …
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Music and musicians of the traditional Chinese 'dizi' in the People's Republic of China
… solo repertory and players of the traditional Chinese transverse flute, the dizi, in the People's Republic of China. While solo dizi music is believed to have long existed in the history of Chinese Music, the current repertory and practice is in fact based on a number of regional instrumental …
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Exploring Cross-Cultural Elements, Performance Practice, and Performance Guide to China West Suite by Chen Yi
Chen Yi (b. 1953) is a Chinese American composer known for integrating Chinese music with Western contemporary techniques. The China West Suite for two pianos consists of four movements, each portraying different aspects of Chinese folk elements while blending them with Western musical idioms. This …
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Complete solo piano works of Zhou Long
Zhou Long is a contemporary composer of Chinese American descent, who belongs to a generation of Chinese composers that began introducing traditional Chinese music to western audiences. He gained international recognition after receiving the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his opera, Madame White Snake …
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Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
… Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped stones now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. These drum-shaped stones with seal scripts were originally made before the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC), and were first discovered in 627CE. The …
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The Presentation and Adaptation of Xinjiang Musical Elements in Chinese Piano Composition: an Analysis of Three Xinjiang Style Piano Works
The art of Chinese piano music has flourished since the early twentieth century, experiencing rapid development under the influence of Western music and the cultural heritage of Chinese music. Among these influences, the traditional music of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang is a crucial element that …
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Portfolio of compositions
… to the question of how autochthonous new music might be composed which genuinely reflects the interaction of Western and Chinese traditional music and philosophy. The solution proposed is to avoid excessively fusing musical elements derived from different cultures but instead to seek the …
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Ma Sicong's Violin Artistry and Compositions
… to the instrument. Known for producing violin music in various styles and forms for more than fifty years, Ma Sicong contributed to the violin's popularization in China through his performance and composition with Chinese elements. His violin music incorporates principal melodies from Chinese …
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Chinese ethnic cultural expression in national music textbooks
… unified multinational country. On the one hand, Chinese scholars and national policies advocate presentation of cultural diversity in China’s education system; on the other hand, they emphasized that diverse ethnic minorities contribute to a single united Chinese nationality as a whole, which is …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a musicological, ethnographic, and historical approach, I examine gender performativity as it pertains to those women performers who play the leading male role-type (the wenwusheng) in Cantonese opera—performers who also attract mostly female fans. I …
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Performing the Yellow River Cantata
… has nearly exclusively remained the province of Chinese choral groups. In large measure, the failure of the work to make significant inroads into the world of Western choral music stems from the daunting challenges posed by the Mandarin text, as well as the ethnic musical elements and folk …
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Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China
What are the socio-political roles of music? Why do people write about music? These are the essential questions underpinning this dissertation. The study interrogates early Chinese thinkers’ engagement with music in political, philosophical, and military treatises of the Warring States (戰國, 453-221 …