Musical Instruments of China (grade 8 mapeh/music)

Musical Instruments of China (grade 8 mapeh/music)

2. •The philosopher
confucius conceived
music in the highest
sense as a means of
calming the passion
and of dispelling
unrest and lust,
rather than as a form
amusement.

3. •Chinese
believed that
sound
influences
the harmony
of the
universe

4. Chinese
Musical
Instrumen
ts

5. YUEQIN
•a moon-
shaped lute
with shorter
neck and four
strings
•played with a
spectrum,
used for
accompanyin
g local
operas.

6. PIPA
•a four-
stringed
lute with
30 frets
and a
pear-
shaped
body

7. ERHU
•a two-
stringed
fiddle and
one of the
most
popular
chinese
instrument
s

8. YUNLUO
•literally "cloud
gongs" or
"cloud of
gongs"
•a set of 10
small tuned
gongs mounted
in a wooden
frame
•the gong's are
generally of
equal diameter
but different
thickness.

9. SHENG
•also called as
chinese mouth
organ and looks
like a set of
panpipes with
12 to 36 bamboo
pipes.
•sheng is one of
the oldest
chinese musical
instrument.

10. DIZI
•traditional
chinese flute
•it can have a
membrane
over an extra
hole to give
the
characteristic
rattle effect.

11. ZHENG
•an ancient
chinese
instrument that
has an arched
surface and an
elongated-
trapezoid with
13 to 21
strings
stretched over
individual
bridges.

12. PENGLING
•two small
bells made of
high-tin
bronze,
without
internal
clappers,
and
bottomless
gourd-like
shape.