Peerless Chinese Music: Fang Jinlong's Fun Chinese Music Course

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"Great music shares the harmony of heaven and earth"—Chinese music is unmatched, and ethnic music meets a flourishing age! This book is divided into six chapters, introducing the representative ethnic musical instruments of China. Chapters One through Three respectively introduce plucked instruments such as the pipa, the guqin, and the guzheng; Chapter Four introduces the typical representative of bowed-string instruments—the huqin family; Chapter Five introduces representative wind instruments such as the dizi, xiao, sheng, guan, and suona; and Chapter Six introduces the most common percussion instruments—the bell (zhong), chime stone (qing), and drum.

The book recounts the origins, characteristics, transmission, and transformation of these many instruments, along with related historical stories, in an engaging way, richly illustrated. Interspersed throughout the text are four little features—in the "Gaining Knowledge" and "Broadening Horizons" features it shares popular-science knowledge and pictures related to the instruments; in the "Dialect" (Fangyan) feature it shares some of the author's personal views and interesting experiences; and in the "Resonance" (Fangxiang) feature...

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