Chinese Songs
Chinese music has become very popular in the recent years and is often based on Western pop music and television theme songs. There was a time when only English, French and Spanish songs were given a lot of attention by the world.. Chinese music is based on a penchant pentatonic or a five-tone scale but the heptatonic or the seven-tone scale is also widely used elaborating the pentatonic scale.
Chinese musical instruments can be divided into four basic categories based on the method by which they are played: blown, bowed, plucked, and struck instruments.Usage of Plucked and struck string instruments such as sanxian, guqin, guzheng, yangqin, ruan, liuqin, konghou, zhu and pipa are very common in Chinese music. Today Chinese artists have won international acclaim for their melodies and their magical voice for different forms of music like the folk, classical, ,and the movie songs and also the operas. Western music is even blended with Chinese music to create new rhythmic experiences.
Most of the Folk songs relate to the beauty of the natural surroundings, some depict the harvest season while others are performed for good luck and prosperity.Chinese classical music is the traditional art of China, which has a history stretching for more than three thousand years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres. Chinese music opera has been immensely popular world wide an example for that is the, Beijing opera.and theSichuan Opera..
Song of the Fishermen is one of the successful as the first social-realist film in the history of Chinese cinema, and won the first international prize for a Chinese film at the 1935 Moscow Film Festival. Some of the famous Chinese singers are Amei Chang,Evonne Hsu,Stella Huang,Karen Mok,Jolin Tsai Annie Yi, Wu Bai ,Jay Chou,Wang Hom. There are many sites which provide rich collection of Chinese Songs MP3, videos and songs that can be easily downloaded.
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