The Music of China

Chinese Music Websites

• Internet Chinese Music Archive - http://music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/chinese-music/

• Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music - http://www.sinohits.net/music/index.htm

• Music in Taiwan - http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/music/index.html

• National Geographic World Music - http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/china_170

• Chinese Songs - Lyrics and Audio Files - http://www.chinese-tools.com/songs

Chinese Instruments

• List of Chinese Instruments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_traditional_Chinese_musical_instruments

• Stringed Instruments from China - http://www.philmultic.com/home/instruments/

• Traditional Chinese Instruments - http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Music/China-musical-instruments.html

• Chinese Musical Instruments - http://www.shoppingchinanow.com/

• Chinese Historical and Cultural Project - http://www.chcp.org/music/Vmusic.html

• The China Guide - Music Downloads - http://www.thebeijingguide.com/mp3/index.html

• U of Pennsylvania Chinese Music Society (some videos) - http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/cmusic/spring08.html

• dizi - transverse bamboo flute

erhu- two-stringed fiddle

• Erhu - http://www.sinohits.net/music/erhu.htm

• pipa - pear-shaped lute that can sound multiple pitches at once

• qin (also guqin) - Seven stringed zither with an ancient design

• souna - double-reed wind instrument (similar to the Western oboe)

Chinese Music Websites

• ArtsEdge - Chinese Instruments - http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-3-4/Chinese_Instruments.aspx

• History of Chinese Music - http://www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/musedex/taiwan/chinese-history/chhistory.html

• Chinese Culture : Opera - http://www.west-meet-east.com/opera.htm

• A Short History of Chinese Opera - http://www.illuminatedlantern.com/cinema/archives/a_short_history_of_chinese_opera.php

• Chinese Instruments - http://www.summerthundermusic.com/index_files/chninstruments.htm

• Chinese Instruments Thinkquest - http://library.thinkquest.org/28110/instruments/chinese/index.html

• The Culture of China: Music - http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/music.html

• Modern Chinese Music - http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/modern_music.html