Influenced by traditional aesthetics, what are the characteristics of China national musical instruments in production?

Due to traditional aesthetic habits, the production of national musical instruments in China often uses natural materials.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, musical instruments at that time were divided into gold (bells, cymbals and cymbals), stone (chimes), silk (harps and harps), bamboo (flutes and cymbals), cymbals (gongs and cymbals) and earth (cymbals) according to the production materials.

At present, there are Qin, Zheng, Xiao, Di, Erhu, Pipa, Sizhu and Drum. It is a popular musical instrument representing the traditional music culture of China.

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Technically speaking, the composition of local style characteristics of instrumental music works involves the whole basic means of music expression (pitch relationship, mode, tonality, rhythm, beat, speed, range, intensity, timbre, playing method, texture and so on). ) and the overall means of expression, these are the indispensable basic elements that constitute the style characteristics of an instrumental work.

According to the performance characteristics of traditional national instrumental music in China, generally speaking, the important components of local style are playing skills, melody unfolding techniques used in folk traditions and band combination.