What is ethnic orchestral music?

Ethnic orchestral music is music performed by an ensemble of ethnic orchestras.

Related introduction:

A national orchestra consists of dozens to more than a hundred people. The common types of folk bands in my country are:

1. The "gong and drum" band that mainly plays percussion music, supplemented by silk and bamboo.

2. A "drag" or "wind and percussion" band that mainly plays percussion and wind instruments, supplemented by string instruments.

3. There is a "wind singing" band that mainly consists of wind instruments, supplemented by string instruments and percussion instruments.

4. A "Sinzhu" band that mainly uses silk and bamboo and rarely uses percussion music.

Extended information

Broadly speaking, silk and bamboo bands and wind and percussion bands (those supplemented by silk strings) are all national orchestras, because as early as in the records of Xianhe songs in the Han Dynasty, " The words "Si Zhu" and "Guan Xian" are used together. National orchestras have experienced greater development after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Central Broadcasting Orchestra was established in April 1953, and its affiliated ethnic band established the initial establishment of a new type of ethnic orchestra.

For the needs of experiment, they transplanted the Western orchestral works "Yao Dance", "Northern Shaanxi Suite" and "Spring Festival Overture" into national orchestral music. This useful attempt greatly promoted the reform of instruments and opened up the expressive power of the band.

Instruments commonly used in ethnic orchestras include Zhonghu, Zhongruan, Daruan, keyboard sheng, cello, double cello and timpani. It is mainly used to perform national orchestral music and accompany solos, duets, operas, folk arts, etc.