How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute

How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute
Author: H. H. Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781549577536

This book will teach you how to play dizi, the Chinese bamboo flute, at the beginner level. No prior knowledge in Chinese music is needed. In addition, you will know the dizi's structure, how to choose and maintain a dizi, as well as the numbered music notation. A number of sheet music are also provided for your own practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a basic understanding of the dizi and can play some simple songs by yourself.

World Flutelore

World Flutelore
Author: Dale A. Olsen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-11-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0252095146

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories--in a word, ""flutelore."" A scholarly yet readable study, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis. Describing and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how and why flutes are important for personal, communal, religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps, existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader interested in the cultural power of flutes.

Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook)

Chinese Folk Songs Collection (Songbook)
Author: Joseph Johnson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476837694

(Educational Piano Solo). 24 songs in the Chinese tradition: Crescent Moon * Darkening Sky * Girl's Lament * Hand Drum Song * Jasmine Flower Song * Mountaintop View * Sad, Rainy Day * The Sun Came up Happy * Wedding Veil * and more. Features notes on each piece, exquisite illustrations, and a map of China.

Hal Leonard Ocarina Method

Hal Leonard Ocarina Method
Author: Cris Gale
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1495072274

(Ocarina). The Hal Leonard Ocarina Method is a comprehensive, easy-to-use beginner's guide, designed for anyone just learning to play the ocarina. Inside you'll find loads of techniques, tips and fun songs to learn and play. The accompanying online video, featuring author Cris Gale, provides further instruciton as well as demonstrations of the music in the book. Topics covered include: a history of the ocarina * types of ocarinas * breathing and articulation * note names and key signatures * meter signatures and rhythmic notation * fingering charts * many classic folksongs * and more.

The Flute Book

The Flute Book
Author: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195373081

The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.

How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute

How to Play Dizi, the Chinese Bamboo Flute
Author: H. H. Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781790670680

This book will teach you to play the dizi at the advanced learner's level on the basis of the previous book. Various techniques and other kinds of dizis (especially the dadi) will be introduced, whereas a number of sheet music will also be provided for practices. After reading the whole book, you should have a deeper understanding of the dizi and can play more songs by yourself.

Flute Lessons for Beginners

Flute Lessons for Beginners
Author: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Publisher: LearnToPlayMusic.com
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9825320737

Teach yourself how to play flute with our easy flute lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free flute videos for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along. Also includes music score and flute animation for easy music learning.*** "Awesome. I heart this book. Check it out, it is awesome!" - Brittany, DeRidder LA [sheetmusicplus] Progressive Beginner Flute contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great flute player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson flute tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of flute. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the flute is required to teach yourself to learn to play flute from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play flute notes and beginner flute scales over 2 octaves • All the fundamental techniques of flute playing including flute notes, rhythms and articulation required for beginner flute songs • Practical flute theory for learning how to read flute music for beginners and how to play beginner flute music • Flute tips and flute tricks that every player should know when learning flute including an introduction to flute improvisation • Shortcuts for how to learn flute fast by getting the most from flute practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the flute today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy beginners flute lessons written by a professional flute teacher • Easy-to-read flute music • Full color photos and diagrams • 80+ flute music exercises and popular easy flute music for beginners in classical flute, rock flute, blues flute, jazz flute, traditional and folk flute styles Beginner flute lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the flute, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's flute lessons for beginners are used by students and flute teachers worldwide to learn how to play flute. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted music lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
Author: Albrecht Schneider
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2016-12-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319472925

This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology. In addition to experimental methods and data acquisition, modeling (such as FEM or wave field synthesis) and numerical simulation plays a central role in studies addressing sound production in musical instruments as well as interaction of radiated sound with the environment. Some of the studies have a focus on psychoacoustic aspects in regard to virtual pitch and timbre as well as apparent source width (for techniques such as stereo or ambisonics) in music production. Since musical acoustics imply subjects playing instruments or singing in order to produce sound according to musical structures, this area is also covered including a study that presents an artificial intelligent agent capable to interact with a real ('analog') player in musical genres such as traditional and free jazz.

Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera

Inscribing Jingju/Peking Opera
Author: David Rolston
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004463399

What was the most influential mass medium in China before the internet reaching both literate and illiterate audiences? The answer may surprise you...it’s Jingju (Peking opera). This book traces the tradition’s increasing textualization and the changes in authorship, copyright, performance rights, and textual fixation that accompanied those changes.

The Lore of the Chinese Lute

The Lore of the Chinese Lute
Author: Robert H van Gulik
Publisher: Orchid Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9789745242364

The lute, ch'in or guqin is one of China's oldest and most revered musical instruments. Records indicate that it has been a favourite of the literary classes for more than 2,500 years; Confucius himself was a great lover of the instrument. Over the centuries, it became representative of the life, taste and pastimes of the Chinese literati. In addition to its contributions to solo and orchestral musical arrangements, a wealth of symbolic meaning accrued to the lute over time. Not only was knowledge of the instrument reserved for the literati; its study was believed to be conducive to meditation and to facilitate intellectual enlightenment. While a significant body of literature has been written on the lute in Chinese, the present monograph is the first to assemble a broad picture of the instrument and its cultural significance in English. The author, a renowned Sinologue and linguist, studied the playing of the instrument under one of the most famous lute masters of his age.