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Gareth Purdy

Group 8 (China in the World) - 22 views

Reflection: Our given topic was an enjoyable and difficult one, given the contentious nature of many of the themes under discussion. Our presentation was a definite success considering that every ...

started by Michael Millard on 22 Oct 10 9 follow-ups, last by Gareth Purdy on 21 Nov 10
Matt Ferrari

Group 7 (3 Gorges dam) - 9 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/asia/19dam.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1 This is a good website that goes into depth about a lot of the social impacts that the relocated people have gone through ...

started by lili_teng_foti on 07 Nov 10 3 follow-ups, last by Matt Ferrari on 10 Nov 10
Samantha Adams

Group 5 (family) - 28 views

Reflection on Presentation: I think that overall our presentation went well. It was definitely very informative and covered all aspects of Chinese family and relationships varying from husband and ...

started by lili_teng_foti on 18 Oct 10 12 follow-ups, last by Samantha Adams on 02 Nov 10
Rachel Ravelo

Group 6 (Women in China) - 39 views

I think our presentation went very well. I feel like we were able to start broad and work down to a narrower topic, which i think our project strong.Ultimately, we were able to view a wide spectrum...

started by lili_teng_foti on 18 Oct 10 17 follow-ups, last by Rachel Ravelo on 27 Oct 10
Haley O'Brien

Group 2 (Music) brainstorm - 56 views

So sorry, but I meant to say Eastern medicine and its influence on the west! I hope to learn more about Eastern Medicine, not western.

Chinese music Group2 brainstorm

started by lili_teng_foti on 13 Sep 10 22 follow-ups, last by Haley O'Brien on 04 Oct 10
Andrew Sweeney

The History of Chinese Music - 5 views

www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/...ChHistory.html

chinese history for presentation Group2 music

shared by Andrew Sweeney on 19 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • During this period, therefore were significant inter-and cross-cultural musical influences. among the diverse sub-cultures of Chinese empire,
  • In addition to the native court musical instruments
  • there were several new instruments introduced during this period
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  • zheng soon became nationally popular
  • The most significant musical historical events were importation and assimilation of nonindigenous music, expansion of Han musical style into southern China, new instruments, recognition of solo performance, earliest survival notation, maturity of music aesthetics by Xi Kang, and new conception of tonal systems.
  • The banquet music tradition for aristocracy known as yanyue had already been in practice during the ancient zhou dynasty.  This music nevertheless, was overshadowed by the court ritual-ceremonial music, which was subquently reconstructed during the Han dynasty and called yanyue or "elsgant and refined music".  It was not untile the Sui and Tang dynasties that uanyue or "banquet music" became the major court musical genre for the first time.  Yanyue was a court musical performance for the nobles and gentries during a state function and during days of festivity.
  • The emergence of industry (iron,
  • Changes in the arts and literature of this periodled to a new tradition in drama, music, fiction and impressionistic painting that dominated the development in the remaining periods of modern China.  The creation of a new style in popular music, dram and literature were mostly important.
  • major vocal genres: the poetic ci song, the art song, narrtive music, the zaju variety musical drama
  • The ci,
  • ci poem therefore was the "filling in" of words to a given musical modal sequence and rhythm scheme in irregular meter.
  • The Art Songs
  • The Narrative Songs
  • A lengthy historical or romantic tale was told through the alternation of narration and song
  • The Ming-Qing period was highly productive musically, resulting in developments that are important not only in this period but as high-lights in the whole continuum of Chinese music.
  • signficant musical developments of this period occurred in the area of urban centers such as Peking and Suyang (Suzhou and Yangzhou ) were entertainment in nature.  The source of this entertainment music was usually folk dervied, that is, from the farms and villages, but which was polished for city/urban consumption.
  • the important forms of urban music included the narrative genres such as tanci (not to be confused with southern tanchi), lianhualao ("The Falling Lotus"), and bajiaogu ("Eight-cornered Drum Song"). These were performed outdoors in the open areas of the marketplaces usually by travelling performing troupes. Their earnings were donations from by-standers.  These performances of musical instruments.  Loud instrumentation, such as the shifan ten varieties of gong and drum ensemble of the fengyang flower drum dance, was not popular in the open air.
  • The outdoor performances catered to the commoners, meanwhile the indoor performances catered to an audience made up of genry-officials and wealthy merchants.
  • Andrew Sweeney on 19 Sep 10
     
    Group 2 Music History
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