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Western Influence on Chinese Music China has long been the cultural hub of Asia, and has had the longest amount of contact of any Asian country with other Western countries. Ever since the Silk Road was established, China has been trading with other Western countries and exchanging aspects of their cultures with one another. One of these aspects is music. But how exactly has Western music influenced Chinese music? In order to understand this, we must look at the history of Western encounters

Instrument: Erhu - China Mandolin - Italy Yang Quin - China Kantele - Finland Ukulele - Hawaii Bouzouki - Greece Banjo - America Bajo Sexto - Mexico Rebab - Afghanistan Dombra - East Europe and Middle Asia Valiha - Madagascar Gusli - Russia Pipa - China Koto - Japan Sitar - India Kora - West African Vihuela - Spain Veena - India Tro - Cambodia Krar - Ethiopia Erhu - China The Erhu is part of the string instrument family. Erhu is also a two-stringed bowed musical instrument. The Erhu was originally

Personally speaking, I think the definition of hobbies is that someone prefers do so than go to sleep at night. In that case, I listed my hobbies as below. One of them is doing math problems. It is a pleasure for me to solve those intriguing problems. Every time I solve a problem that was challenging to me, I feel very happy for the self-achievement. Even if it occurs at a deep night, I will get refreshed by the ecstasy. I was only four when I first tasted the sweetness of math. At the high school

The subject of this music ethnography focuses on traditional Chinese music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The topic of this ethnography is about how the usage of Chinese traditional instruments play a role in Chinese music and cultural identity. The hypothesis asks how instruments play a role in a country’s music and cultural identity. Some definitions that will be explored is cultural identity and Chinese music. Cultural identity is the sense of belonging to a particular group. Chinese

China is known for their traditional theatre art form, the Peking opera, or Beijing opera which combines music, vocal, performance, pantomime, dance, and acrobatics. It started in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid 19th century. During the Qing Dynasty court, it became extremely popular and came to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China. Beijing, Tianjin in the north, and Shanghai in the south was where their major performances were based in

enough sound in singing. Vibrato is an important technique in good western classical and operatic singing. The pitch of the notes quickly changing up and down makes vibrato. It is one of the important means of musical performance. Like violin, Chinese erhu and other string instruments playing with rubbing strings. Italian vocal school more likely to say: the key point to tell is it a good singing, is to see whether there has vibrato or not. (Helen Mitchell, 2004) “Open throat” is the way to achieve

My neighborhood exploration is on the island of Manhattan’s Chinatown. Before I begin noting my description of Chinatown, I must inform the reader of my existing attachments, sentiments, and personal connection with the neighborhood. I have been visiting this particular neighborhood for a rather large portion of my life. With my grandparents having lived in the Lower East Side for the formative years of my childhood, visiting Chinatown is something my brothers and I grew up doing for family outings

Dara Murphy 112519063 Chinese Culture Essay: There are many different aspects to Chinese culture that make it so broad and interesting. I will be focusing mainly on the more modern features to the culture and how it has changed from the traditional culture. Chinese culture is one of the oldest cultures out there today. I personally find the culture as a whole very interesting and intriguing and I extremely enjoyed learning about the ancient culture that is still ever so prominent today

The several movies portrayed in this course were very helpful in understanding Asian history. In my opinion, these movies were helpful in the way that they introduced the fundamental basic history about how the wars shaped the outcome of Korea and China. These movies were helpful because they provided an overall consideration of the different perspectives of the wars. In the movie The Warlords, we gained knowledge about the Manchu government’s perspective and in the movie The Front Line, we gained

Beyond the Storyline: How the Play “Farewell My Concubine” Enhanced the Movie In 1977, two performers came to a stadium to rehearse Farewell My Concubine, one of the most classical and well-known Peking Opera plays. The play narrated a romantic yet tragic story between the king of Chu and the concubine Yu Ji: when the king was defeated by the eventual founder of the Han Dynasty, he asked Yu Ji to flee for the sake of her own safety. While Yu Ji refused to leave the king alone, she performed the very