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Tag Archives: music
The pipa
The pipa (琵琶) is a pear-shaped type of lute with four strings. It’s one of the most common Chinese musical instruments – varieties of pipa have been played in China for about two thousand years. Like many instruments now considered … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Dong Nan, Gu Hongzhong, music, Musical Instruments, pipa
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The guqin and earth’s greatest hits
In 1977 NASA sent Voyager I into deep space to explore the great beyond. The spacecraft contained a 12-inch copper disc titled “Sounds of the Earth”, featuring “greetings from the People of Earth in 60 languages, and natural sounds such … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Flowing Waters, guqin, music, Musical Instruments, zither
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A blind Beijing beggar and his erhu
The erhu — compact, cheap and easy to use to make noises that sound like music — is a favorite of itinerant Chinese beggars and buskers. I wanted to speak to an erhu-playing beggar in Beijing about his instrument so … Continue reading
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Tagged Beggars, Beijing, blind, Danwei.com, Erhu, music
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Nixon in China, not in China
Nick Frisch puts the Met’s performance of Nixon in China up against the expectations of Chinese opera viewers.
Hymns of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and their Christian hymns.
Shosholoza on the Shanghai Metro
Kliptown Youth Program gumboot dancers on the Shanghai subway sing Shosholoza, a traditional South African song sung by migrant workers on trains bound for Johannesburg where they would dig for gold for paltry wages.
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Tagged music, Shosholoza, South Africa
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Rocking pipa
Central Conservatory of Music professor Zhang Hongyan (章红艳) introduces the pipa, and then plays Sunny Spring White Snow (阳春白雪), a rocking traditional song that may be more than two thousand years old.
Guzheng and Masada
Rosh Hashanah – Jewish new year – starts tonight. Shana tova to our Jewish readers.
Celebrate by watching this video shot at the North Sea Jazz Festival in summer 2009: Secret Chiefs 3 joined by Wu Fei (吴非) on guzheng playing music from John Zorn’s Masada series which is based on traditional Jewish music.
Danwei Canteen: Chestnut Chicken Stew
Our new series, Danwei Canteen is a quick guide to traditional Chinese food as it’s prepared where the cuisine was born: in Chinese rural areas and villages.
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Tagged cooking, cuisine, Danwei Canteen, food, music
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