Traditional Chinese music and instruments

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Scientists have found that music in China to date the beginnings of Chinese civilization. Records and musical instruments to show that the old, there was a well-developed musical culture. In 1999, a Neolithic site of Jiahu Chinese archaeologists have discovered six complete bone flutes 9000 years old. It’s probably the oldest playable musical instruments ever found.Chinese Music flutes 9000 years, Chinese bone flutes.

Music has always been an important part of Chinese culture. In ancient China, music instruments, songs and dances and traditional performances with speeches and singing, the theater has been created. Together with the introduction of religions such as Confucianism and Buddhism, religious music with traditional Chinese music.

Ancient Chinese Instruments
In traditional Chinese instruments played solo, in a small set of a small area like a restaurant or a tea or a big band to lead the emperor and large groups of people. There is no conductor in traditional Chinese music, or the use of written results. The scores saved by the music and then the game does not enhance the written music. Traditional Chinese musical instruments and plucked strings, flutes, gongs, cymbals and drums.

bamboo flute

Bamboo tubes and bones are the oldest known musical instruments from China. The traditional Chinese instruments into classes that are divided into composition of materials. The categories are: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth / clay, metal and stone. Orchestra is a traditional Chinese bowed string, wind instruments, plucked strings and percussion.

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Traditional Chinese music and instruments