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21 Cards in this Set
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Music
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-pentatolic scales/melodies
-melodic purity/isolation -importance of subtle details: ornamentation, timbre, orchestration. |
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Music
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-heterophonic texture: single melody, but musicians can change lyrics, melodies.
-symbolism: instruments, theory, balance, nature. |
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bayin( the eight materials)
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metal :ideophone
stone :ideophone silk : chordophone = string bamboo: aerophone gourd(calabash) clay(earth) skin(animal hide) : membranophone wood |
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qin (chin, guqin, guchin)
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7-string zither, ancient instrument; no frets or bridges; instrument of prestige, the literati
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sona
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shawn, used in folk music
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"Silk" instruments
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-zheng(jeng) : zither with bridges, many ornaments produced by non-plucking hand; modern descentdent of qin
-pipa: pear-shaped lute -erhu: 2-string fiddle -yangqin: dulcimer type of zither, struck with light hammers |
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"Bamboo" Instruments
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-dizi: flute with interior membrane to add timbre
-xiao: end-blown flute -sheng: mouth/cluster organ |
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Jiangnan sizhu
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"Silk and Bamboo music from south of the river"
-typical performed in tea houses -some merchant class patrons -amateur musicians -neighborhood groups |
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ba duqu
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-Jiangnan sizhu
-(eight great pieces/mother tunes); core repetoire -heterophonic texture |
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Jingju
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-Beijing opera(capital city opera; formerly "Peking opera")
-Chinese drama w/music ancient, Jingju fairly recent subject matter: storied of gods, emperors, generals of past dynasties |
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Jingju music
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-aural tradition= learn by ears from master
-percussion and lead instruments -"civil" dicision lead by jinghu (fiddle) -"military" division led by conductor who plays percussion (gong) |
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Jingju
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-standard character types
-all roles formerly played by men -minimal stage props -acrobatics/martial arts sequences exaggerated style |
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Cultural Revolution
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-Mao Zedong's "comeback"
-radical and extreme Chinese reform movement from 1966-76 -Carried out by "Red Guard," primarily students -climate of persecution -public humiliation "struggles" |
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Cultural Revolution
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-movements against the "four olds" of "the exploiting classes" : old customs, old habits, old culture, old thinking
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Cultural Revolution
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-anti-Western, anti-intellectual, anti-elite; universities/schools closed
-some ancient artworks destroyed -Western influence shunned -any Chinese culture perceives as old, hierarchical, immoral, or religious is banned |
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Cultural Revolution: music
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didactic music: music designed to instruct, particularly to inculcate morals and values.
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"Eight Great Works"
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5 Model/Revolutionary Operas
2 Revolutionary Ballets 1 Revolutionary symphony |
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Jiang Qing
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Mao's wife
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Yangbanxi
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-political, didactic plots
-clearly delineated characters -inclusion of Western symphonic instruments -dominated musical landscape |
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Abing (aka Hua Yanjun)
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erhu musician
-"The Moon Reflected on the Second Springs" |
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Wu Man
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a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer
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