TTH MAPEH 8 Music Q2L1 - Music of China

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LESSON

OBJECTIVE
LESSON OBJECTIVE

To listen to music of China.


To identify China’s musical
instruments.
To know one popular Chinese
singer.
LET’S
WARM UP
Guess who?
Guess his nationality?

a. Japanese
b. Chinese
c. Taiwanes
Which of the following is not a song
of Jose Mari Chan?
a. Christmas in our hearts
b. Beautiful girl
c. Deep in my heart
d. Have yourself a merry little
Christmas
LET’S LEARN
Music of China

Let’s listen to this instrumental


music and tell me what you imagine.
Music of China
Chinese Instrumental Music
•Their musical instruments have eight categories
according to the material used: bamboo, wood
silk, gourd, stone, metal, skin, or clay.
•These instruments have associations with a
particular substance, direction, season and power.
Example: drum=north, winter, and skin,
bell=west, autumn, and metal
Music of China
1. Bowed Strings
a. Erhu – one of the famous Chinese instruments, a
two-string, violin-like instrument
played with a bow.
Music of China
2. Plucked Instruments
a. Pipa – this has four strings and thirty frets on a
gord-shaped frame. This is a Chinese version of the
mandolin or ukulele.
Music of China
2. Plucked Instruments
b. Zheng – an ancient Chinese instrument with
thirteen to twenty-one strings stretched over
individual bridges. This has a
range of three to four octaves.
Music of China
2. Plucked Instruments
c. Guqin – a seven-string zither without bridges.
This is the most ancient Chinese
instrument with over 3000 years
of history.
Music of China
2. Plucked Instruments
d. Guzheng – a large with eighteen to twenty-three
strings usually played by a female and a similar
instrument to the
Japanese Koto.
Music of China
3. Winds
a. Dizi – a bamboo side-blown or transverse flute
with six fingerholes. One hole is covered with a
membrane to produce a buzzing sound or rattling
effect.
Music of China
3. Winds
b. Xiao – a vertical end-blown flute made of
bamboo. This is played to accompany long, quiet,
and sentimental music.
Music of China
3. Winds
c. Suona, Laba, or Haidi – a blowing instrument like
a horn. This has keen resonant sound effect needed
for drum music, local opera and ballad
performances.
Music of China
3. Winds
d. Sheng – considered one of the oldest Chinese
musical instruments which is a mouth organ similar
to a panpipe instrument
with 12-36 bamboo pipes.
Music of China
4. Percussion Instruments
a. Ching and Chap – small cymbals. They signal the
entrances and endings of a composition.
Music of China
4. Percussion Instruments
b. Yu – a tiger-like animal resting on a sounding
box. This is played to mark the end of a strophe.

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