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Music from China

Music from China. Jenn Cartier Alissa Jones. China. China is the fourth largest country in the world. The Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China was built over 2000 years ago and is the longest man-made structure ever created.

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Music from China

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  1. Music from China Jenn Cartier Alissa Jones

  2. China • China is the fourth largest country in the world.

  3. The Great Wall of China • The Great Wall of China was built over 2000 years ago and is the longest man-made structure ever created. • It is believed that the main purpose of the Great Wall was to protect China from invasion or attack by northern tribes. • It is also the only man-made structure that can be seen from space

  4. In China, each year is represented by an animal. There are twelve animals which represent the twelve months.

  5. Red is considered a lucky color in China. At one time wedding dresses were red. New Year's banners, clothing, and lucky money envelopes are still red.

  6. Music in China • Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. • The scale is pentatonic. • Bamboo pipes and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone. • Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.

  7. Instruments • Woodwind and percussion • dizi, sheng, paigu, gong, paixiao, guan, bells, cymbals • Bowed strings • erhu, zhonghu, dahu, banhu, jinghu, gaohu, gehu, yehu, cizhonghu, diyingehu, leiqin • Plucked and struck strings • guqin, sanxian, yangqin, guzheng, ruan, konghou, liuqin, pipa, zhu

  8. Woodwind and Percussion Instruments Paixiao Dizi Paigu Gong

  9. Bowed Strings Erhu Yehu Gehu

  10. Plucked and Struck Strings Guqin Yangqin Ruan

  11. Traditional Chinese Song • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiOgOQcWGsc

  12. Another Traditional Song • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7okLGfDULmI&feature=related

  13. Chinese Dance • The earliest forms of dance grew out of religious rituals—including exorcism dances performed by shaman and drunken masked • In ancient times, dance was regarded as a kind of physical exercise that help harmonize the body and the mind. It featured performers with flutes and pheasant feathers.

  14. One of the most dramatic forms of Chinese dance is the sleeve or ribbon dance. A dancer uses long silk sleeves to accentuate their hand and arm movements, whirling them around and snapping them like whips.

  15. The Lantern Dance, or Flower Lantern Dance, is popular in southern China and is known by a number of other names. • The dance features circular movements of the arms and hands, wavy body motions, and lower back movements linked to the movements of a dragon.

  16. Types of Dance in China • Festival Dances • Dragon Dance and Lion Dance • Yang Ge • Folk Dancing

  17. Chinese Dance: Lotus Flower • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAR6vSDLinE

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