+
Related Flashcards
Related Topics
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
Baban
|
Traditional chinese melodic form with eight main melodic phrases; most traditional solo zheng pieces are in this form.
|
|
Beijing opera/peking opera
|
Best known type of chinese opera; features heightened speech, song, dance, mime, acting, and acrobatics; the heavily socialism-laden "revolutionary operas" of the 60s and 70s represented a radical transformation of the genre during that period.
|
|
Confucianism
|
The sociopolitical doctrine and philosophy originating with the writings of confuscius, which stressed rigid social hierarchy, civic responsibility and a particular conception of morally virtuous social order; basis of chinese society for many centuries from Han dynasty on; top of social hierarchy was junzi class who played the qin. similar to doctrine of ethos.
|
|
Communist era
|
1949-65; rule by Mao Zedong; establishment of zheng programs in most major conservatories; significant western influences on zheng music and playing styles such as 2 handed plucking-more virtuosic.
|
|
Cultural revolution
|
1966-76; final period of Mao Zedong's leadership of China; unprecedented levels of intolerance for any deviation from communist state idology; extreme restrictions on cultural and artistic expression-no zheng or opera.
|
|
Dap
|
Traditional Uighur fram drum; drum head made of donkey hide or snake skin.
|
|
Deng Haiqiong
|
Leading zheng player
|
|
Deng Xiaoping
|
Leader of china during the period of openness; tried to reconcile free enterprise with communism and loosened constraints on culture
|
|
Erhu
|
2 stringed upright fiddle
|
|
Gua-zou
|
General term for a wide variety of glissando-type ornaments used in zheng and other chinese instrumental traditions
|
|
Han
|
Chinese ethnic majority; 92% of china's population
|
|
Han dynasty
|
202-220; confucianism was foundation of social order; zheng was popular and solo zheng tradition developed
|
|
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
|
Leader of Chinese Nationalist party regime that succeeded qing dynasty; focused on modernizing china by developing a new Chinese nationalism rooted in economic, social, and cultural reform (music was key)
|
|
Mao Zedong
|
Leader of Chinese communist party; his regime from 1949-65 saw profound reformation of Chinese society and culture; thought music should only serve socialist state
|
|
Ming dynasty
|
1386-1644; reemergence of zheng-became standard item in home; rise of middle class
|
