Created by: Junha, Darrell, Reyhan

Grade 10

Chinese Romantic Music(flutes and drums at dusk)

World music What is the meaning of world music? How is the world music specific to its own culture? What are the chosen music culture in terms of history about the

music china its historical background the role of music in its society rhythm and percussion melody and texture vocal music Instrumentation

Theme Artistic Intention Skills & Technique Artistic Processes

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The World Music

The meaning of world music: Popular music originating form or influenced by non western musical traditions and often having a danceable rhythm, and usually a person who is active when used attributively. – Mer-riam Webster

The meaning of world music (dictionary)

The world music is actually a musical genre that diverse styles from Africa, eastern Eu-rope, Asia and other musical genres that are non-mainstream Western folk sources. The first language was used in non-English and was released it in Great Britain and United States in 1980’s. Initially, the African popular music and the world music were virtually synonymous. By the first 21st century the world music encompassed, including Pak-istani and French group.

The meaning of world music (our own idea)

The world music is specific to it own culture by its own history and the way the melody is played because when we hear each of Chinese peo-ple’s music, they have their own characteristic that makes us under-stand the music piece.

How is the world music specific to its own culture?

The Chinese music had existed since the dawn of Chinese civilization and the beginning of Zhou Dynasty at (1122BC-256BC). Today it has contin-ued a rich traditional heritage in one aspect. The China music market has produce 2.8 billion US dollar in 2011.

History about the Chinese mu-sic.

The Chinese traditional music in-strument has affected the society a lot as it is used in traditional dances, special occasion (Chinese New Year and Traditional dance), and more.s3a

The society

The rhythm inside a romantic music, which we choose for this presentation is that it consists of many changes in the tempo and its rebate.

The percussion inside a romantic Chinese music is used as a bass.

The rhythm and the percussion

Materials used to make Chinese instruments: Silk

Guqin-7 stringed zither Se-25 stringed zither

Bamboo Dizi-transverse bamboo flute with buzzing membrane Xiao-bamboo flute not unlike the recorder

Wood Zhu-a wooden box that tapers from the top to the bottom, played by hit-

ting a stick on the inside Yu-a wooden percussion

Metal Xiaobo Zhongbo

Stone Blanqing: a rack of stone tablets that are hung by ropes from a wooden

frame and struck. Sounding stone or QingStone

Instrumentation

MelodyThe melody of this song is used to at-

tract people and tell the people about a story, the movement of the song is used by the pipa and the bamboo flute.

TextureThe textures of the music is polyphonic

because, you can hear two sounds and the same time.

Melody and texture

English: fluids and drums at dusk

Xi Yang Xiau Gu

The name of the song Xi Yang Xiao Gu literally means “desolate drum at the sunset,” it is a representative of the ancient Pipa melody. The tune was adopted and it is renamed to “the moon night of Spring River and flowers” around the late 1925. Since 1949 it has undergo revision until now. The intro has a background of musical har-mony, and then the pipa is plunked faster and faster, giv-ing out drumbeat like notes. The technique, often used in folk music, the phrases is repeated over and over, and looks like chasing another, that gives a vivid impression of ripples on water. 

The song is meant to praise the south part of the country side of the Yang Tze river

The theme of the song: Patriotic

The meaning of the song

The tempo: Andante (play= moderately slow) Because it will create a romantic scene in people’s mind

Key signature: F minor Dynamics: Because every part of the song is played soft that calms

us down. MP (moderately soft) Decrescendo (gradually softer) P (soft)

Scales: Minor Time signature: 4/4 Pitch: Low because it shows the romantic part of the music

and it is soft when we hear it. We also can imagine the view of the artist.

Melody: it is pitched hight

Artistic intention

Technique: Pipa and bamboo flute Bamboo flute

Produces the melody Flow of the music 

Pipa The movement of the music Supporting the melody to create a better piece of

music   The difference between these two instruments,

which are pipa and Bamboo Flute is that the pipa produces pellets like short notes by twanging while bamboo flute produces long drown-out notes.

Techniques of the mu-sic

The Chinese music is actually is one of the master pieces that the people has made because the Chinese melodic music expresses the history and the characteristic of china, which is calm, peaceful and slow.

Conclusion

  http://library.thinkquest.org/6230/history.htm

http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/musedex/taiwan/chinese-history/chhistory.html

http://arts.cultural-china.com/en/96A8714A13199.html

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