Volume 21 no. 4 1998 Keywords: Music, World, China, Acoustics, Aesthetics, Music Theory, Orchestration, Structure, Formal Design, Composition, Analysis, Musicology, History, Criticism, Musicians, Musical Instruments, Cultural Relics, Performance
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
63 Xianzi & Pipa
The best loved Chinese plucked-string musical instruments are analyzed musically with their ancient cousin the ruan. The sanxian fingerboard lute is by far the most versatile lute anywhere. Its long-term partnership with the pipa is itself the basis of much Chinese cultural acoustics.
Shen Sin-yan
VOCAL MUSIC & PERFORMANCE
68 A Performance Guide for Contemporary Chinese Art Songs in Mandarin Chinese II
The second part of this performance guide. If you are a non-Chinese speaker and are interested in singing Chinese songs - you are in luck! Chi dissects the central pronunciation and articulation problems and provides the background for a selected number of poems set to songs. Your audience can't wait!
Mei-Fung A. Kang Chi
A TOPICAL BOX
76 The Tantiao Strings
To 'tan' is to pluck outward and to 'tiao' is to pluck inward. These age-old techniques provide immense musical interest on these solo instruments and in their orchestral roles.
COVER: The Moon On High -
Year of the Hare
Art/Calligraphy by Yang Yijun
and Lee Yuan-Yuan
WORLD WIDE WEB
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THE SILK & BAMBOO ENSEMBLE
ON TOUR NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA30th ANNIVERSARY OF
THE CHINESE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL NETWORK 1969-1999
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