China Tune: Best of Chinese traditional music http://china-tune.com China-Tune: 精选民乐视频 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Chinese Traditional Music - 民乐 http://china-tune.com/favorites/ http://china-tune.com/favorites/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:22:32 +0000 admin http://china-tune.com/?p=349 “Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles… The scale is pentatonic… instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.” (more from Wiki)

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Song of Happiness (Zhejiang Chinese Orchestra)
江南丝竹: 欢乐歌 (浙江民族乐团)

White Snow in Early Spring (pipa: LI Hui)
阳春白雪 (琵琶: 李晖)

Singing in Idle (YU Hongmei)
闲居吟 (于红梅等)

By the Butterfly Lake (hulusi solo)
蝴蝶泉边 (葫芦丝独奏)

The Little Cowherd (Dizi: YANG Lan)
小放牛 (笛子: 杨岚)

Tune of Rainbow Cloud (YUAN Sha)
云裳诉 (袁莎)

Yu Bei Ballad (erhu: YU Hongmei)
豫北敍事曲 (二胡: 于红梅)

Sanmen Gorge Capriccio (erhu: LIU Yusheng)
三门峡畅想曲 (二胡: 刘雨声)

Hundred Birds Worshipping The Phoenix (suona: LI Guangcai)
百鸟朝凤 (唢呐: 李光才)

Guangling Tune (guqin: ZHANG Ziqian)
广陵散 (古琴: 张子谦)

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