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Tag Archives: pipa
The pipa: How a barbarian lute became a national symbol
‘Playing the pipa behind the back’ is a special kind of Chinese gongfu that expresses flying in heaven at Dunhuang. [See image of pipa player from Mogao caves at Dunhuang] The road to industrialization with Chinese characteristics was taken by Mao Zedong after … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Academy of Music, Danwei.com, guqin, history, music, Musical Instruments, musicology, pipa, Strings
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Chinese instruments and the creation of a national music
Modern Chinese instruments are a lot like modern China: a disparate patchwork of various Parts forcibly cobbled into a Whole that, to hear some tell it, Always Was and Ever Shall Be. That is a bit of an exaggeration: no … Continue reading
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Tagged Danwei.com, Erhu, Gehu, guqin, history, Huqin, music, Musical Instument, pipa, Sheng
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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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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.