An Introduction to China's Traditional Music

The compilation of "Introduction to China Traditional Music" is a comprehensive theoretical course. According to the teaching reform plan of the Central Conservatory of Music, the "academic year credit system" is implemented, compulsory courses are reduced, and more elective courses are offered. On the basis of professional knowledge, the horizons are broadened and the overall cultural quality is improved. At the same time, in the textbook compilation, the academic research and teaching achievements of China's traditional music theory in recent five years have been absorbed, and the contents of the textbook have been supplemented and updated. From the microscopic point of view, the specific teaching method of this course is to make students have a preliminary understanding of the development of traditional music culture in China and the main categories of traditional music culture in China.

This book describes the origin, composition, artistic features and development of traditional music in China, compares it with western music, and respectively expounds the representative music types and timbre characteristics of various systems and branches of traditional music in China. And summarizes its artistic characteristics from the aesthetic point of view. It is the synthesis of the current research results of traditional music in China.