Find top songs and albums by Chinese Bamboo Flute Musicians including Floating Water in a Shining Stream, Autumn Moon Over the Han Palace and more. Unlike the European folk structure which normally goes ABABAB etc., as in modern pop music, Chinese folk songs have a structure of AAA, or if you count the development as a change then: ABC. Listen to music by Chinese Bamboo Flute Musicians on Apple Music. These pieces were written by taking a short theme and developing it in three sections, each section adding more complex ornaments and rhythms as it progresses. Unlike in most western music, any two notes were used as grace notes, rather than a tone gap. Grace notes are used instead of tonguing, a technique used by the bagpipes. We can tell this because the ornamentation of these pieces is very similar to that of the bagpipes, which were invented in India, and also surprisingly the penny whistle and other Celtic instruments. This is also why, unlike most Chinese music, these pieces are not written in a pentatonic scale, but in a more middle eastern style. They were played mostly on wooden flutes, and thus the pieces that have survived till today are written in D, which is the key these early flutes were made in. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭhinese folk flute solos were written to tell the traditions and tales of various tribes in China, around the 12th century. ( November 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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