Chinese Romantic M usic (flutes and drums at dusk)

1. Chinese Romantic Music(flutes and drums at dusk) Created by: Junha, Darrell, Reyhan Grade 10

2. Table of contents 1 • World music • What is the meaning of world music? • How is the world music specific to its own culture? • What are the chosen music culture in terms of history about the music china • its historical background • the role of music in its society • rhythm and percussion • melody and texture • vocal music • Instrumentation • Theme • Artistic Intention • Skills & Technique • Artistic Processes

3. The World Music

4. The meaning of world music (dictionary) • The meaning of world music: Popular music originating form or influenced by non western musical traditions and often having a danceable rhythm, and usually a person who is active when used attributively. – Merriam Webster

5. The meaning of world music (our own idea) • The world music is actually a musical genre that diverse styles from Africa, eastern Europe, Asia and other musical genres that are non-mainstream Western folk sources. The first language was used in non-English and was released it in Great Britain and United States in 1980’s. Initially, the African popular music and the world music were virtually synonymous. By the first 21st century the world music encompassed, including Pakistani and French group.

6. How is the world music specific to its own culture? • The world music is specific to it own culture by its own history and the way the melody is played because when we hear each of Chinese people’smusic, they have their own characteristic that makes us understand the music piece.

7. History about the Chinese music. • The Chinese music had existed since the dawn of Chinese civilization and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty at (1122BC-256BC). Today it has continued a rich traditional heritage in one aspect. The China music market has produce 2.8 billion US dollar in 2011.

8. The society • The Chinese traditional music instrument has affected the society a lot as it is used in traditional dances, special occasion (Chinese New Year and Traditional dance), and more.s3a

9. The rhythm and the percussion • The rhythm inside a romantic music, which we choose for this presentation is that it consists of many changes in the tempo and its rebate. • The percussion inside a romantic Chinese music is used as a bass.

10. Instrumentation • Materials used to make Chinese instruments: • Silk • Guqin-7 stringed zither • Se-25 stringed zither • Bamboo • Dizi-transverse bamboo flute with buzzing membrane • Xiao-bamboo flute not unlike the recorder • Wood • Zhu-a wooden box that tapers from the top to the bottom, played by hitting a stick on the inside • Yu-a wooden percussion • Metal • Xiaobo • Zhongbo • Stone • Blanqing: a rack of stone tablets that are hung by ropes from a wooden frame and struck. • Sounding stone or QingStone

11. Melody and texture • Melody • The melody of this song is used to attract people and tell the people about a story, the movement of the song is used by the pipa and the bamboo flute. • Texture • The textures of the music is polyphonic because, you can hear two sounds and the same time.

12. Xi Yang XiauGu English: fluids and drums at dusk

13. The meaning of the song • The name of the song Xi Yang Xiao Gu literally means “desolate drum at the sunset,” it is a representative of the ancient Pipa melody. The tune was adopted and it is renamed to “the moon night of Spring River and flowers” around the late 1925. Since 1949 it has undergo revision until now. The intro has a background of musical harmony, and then the pipa is plunked faster and faster, giving out drumbeat like notes. The technique, often used in folk music, the phrases is repeated over and over, and looks like chasing another, that gives a vivid impression of ripples on water.  • The song is meant to praise the south part of the country side of the Yang Tze river • The theme of the song: Patriotic

14. Artistic intention • The tempo: Andante (play= moderately slow) Because it will create a romantic scene in people’s mind • Key signature: F minor • Dynamics: Because every part of the song is played soft that calms us down. • MP (moderately soft) • Decrescendo (gradually softer) • P (soft) • Scales: Minor • Time signature: 4/4 • Pitch: Low because it shows the romantic part of the music and it is soft when we hear it. We also can imagine the view of the artist. • Melody: it is pitched hight

15. Techniques of the music • Technique: Pipa and bamboo flute • Bamboo flute • Produces the melody • Flow of the music  • Pipa • The movement of the music • Supporting the melody to create a better piece of music   • The difference between these two instruments, which are pipa and Bamboo Flute is that the pipa produces pellets like short notes by twanging while bamboo flute produces long drown-out notes.

16. Conclusion • The Chinese music is actually is one of the master pieces that the people has made because the Chinese melodic music expresses the history and the characteristic of china, which is calm, peaceful and slow.

17. Bibloigraphy • http://library.thinkquest.org/6230/history.htm • http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/musedex/taiwan/chinese-history/chhistory.html • http://arts.cultural-china.com/en/96A8714A13199.html

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