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Glossary,
The selected list of Chinese music genres, technical terminologies, titles and names is divided into four parts. These are listed in alphabetical order of English.
Books
Composer:
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"Books Audio"
| Discourse on the Absence of Sadness and Happiness in Sound | 声无哀乐论 | The Book of History | 尚书 |
| Miraculous Notation | 神奇秘谱 | The Book of Songs | 诗经 |
| The Notation of Taihe zhengyin | 太和正音谱 | Song Collection for New Poetry | 新诗歌集 |
| The Songs of Chu | 楚辞 | Yue ji | 乐记 |
Instruments
Composer:
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"Glossary Instruments Audio"
| dizi | 笛子 | bamboo flute | |
| erxian (in Fujian nanyin) | 二弦 | two-stringed fiddle | |
| erhu | 二胡 | two-stringed fiddle | |
| kouxian | 口弦 | Jew's harp | |
| pipa | 琵琶 | plucked lute | |
| qin | 琴 | seven-stringed zither | |
| qing | 磬 | a stone drum | |
| sanxian | 三弦 | three-stringed plucked lute | |
| sheng | 笙 | reed-pipe mouth organ | |
| sixian | 四弦 | four-stringed plucked lute | |
| suona | 唢呐 | double-reed oboe | |
| xun | 埙</td > | ocarina | |
"…Literature and art fit well into the whole revolutionary machine as a component part, that they operate as powerful weapons for uniting and educating people and for attacking and destroying the enemy…"
-Mao Zedong, 1942
"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."
-Lao Tzu
Linguistic tone is crucial to understanding spoken Chinese: the sound 'da' could mean either 'big' or 'to beat' (among other meanings) depending on its pitch and contour.
