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Elementary school students music handbook content

Concert Handout for Elementary School Students:A concert or recital is a live performance, usually of music, in front of an audience.

Music can be performed by individual musicians or by a group of musical organizations, such as an orchestra or choir. Concerts are also known colloquially as "shows" and "gigs". Musicians usually perform on stage. Before records were popular, concerts were the only chance for listeners to hear musicians play.

Origins of Music Handout:

It is impossible to find out when music first appeared in human society. Before mankind has produced language, already know the use of sound height, intensity, etc. to express their own meaning and feelings. With the development of human labor, and gradually produced a unified labor rhythm of the horn and mutual transmission of information shouting, which is the most primitive music prototype; when people celebrate the harvest and share the fruits of labor, often hit the stone, wooden to express joy, joy, which is the prototype of primitive musical instruments.

The legend of the origin of folding stringed instruments

The earliest stringed instrument in the world was the Chinese guqin, also known as the yaoqin, yuqin, and seven-stringed qin, which was a popular instrument during the Zhou Dynasty, and has at least 3,000 years of history by now. It was only at the beginning of this century that it came to be known as the "guqin". The creator of the qin has been memorialized in legends such as "Fuxi made the qin", "Shennong made the qin", and "Shun made a five-stringed qin to sing about the south wind"

Folding Legends of the Origins of Wind Instruments

Ancient Chinese history tells us that in the time of the Yellow Emperor, 5,000 years ago, there was a musician named Linglun, who went into the western Kunhua Mountains to pick bamboo for his flute. When five phoenixes flew in the air, he synthesized their sounds into a law. Although this story is not entirely believable, it can be regarded as a mysterious legend about the origin of wind instruments.

Folding the Legend of the Origin of Ancient Music

The Yellow Emperor, the first emperor of China, was the famous ruler who created the calendar and writing 5,000 years ago. At that time, in addition to the aforementioned Linglun, there was also a musician named "Fuxi". It is said that Fuxi was a man with the head of a snake, and that he was conceived in his mother's womb for twelve years. He played a zither with fifty strings, but because the tone was too sad, the Yellow Emperor cut it in half and replaced it with a twenty-five-stringed instrument.

Additionally, in the legends of the Yellow Emperor's time, Shennong was also a musician who taught people to farm, who tasted a hundred herbs and discovered herbs, and who created the five-stringed zither.