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Guzheng

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The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, is a Chinese plucked string instrument with a more than 2,500-year history. [1]

76 relations: A Scarcity of Miracles, Andreas Vollenweider, Asian-American jazz, Atonality, August Burns Red, Đàn tranh, Björk, Bradley Fish, Bridge (instrument), Central Conservatory of Music, Chadagan, Chaozhou, Cloisonné, Cui Jian, Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime, Fingerpick, Firmiana simplex, Gayageum, Gorillaz, Guangdong, Guqin, Hakka people, Halim El-Dabh, Han Mei, Hangzhou, Help!: A Day in the Life, Henan, Ivory, Jade, Jakko Jakszyk, Jaron Lanier, Jon Foreman, Jon Jang, Kevin Austin, Koto (instrument), Lacquer, Liang Tsai-Ping, Liao Zilan, List of guzheng players, Loop (music), Lou Harrison, Major scale, McFarland & Company, Mike Hovancsek, Music of China, My Fair Princess, Nacre, Octave, Pentatonic scale, Plectrum, ..., Randy Raine-Reusch, Rescue & Restore, Resin, Ruby Lin, Samm Bennett, Se (instrument), Seashell, Shandong, Shuowen Jiezi, Sigtryggur Baldursson, Silk, Steel, String (music), String instrument, The Korgis, The Sugarcubes, Timbre, To Live (novel), Tortoiseshell, Virtual band, Wang Yong (musician), Warring States period, Wu Fei, Yatga, Zhejiang, Zither. Expand index (26 more) »

A Scarcity of Miracles

A Scarcity of Miracles is an album by Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins.

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Andreas Vollenweider

Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist.

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Asian-American jazz

Asian-American jazz is a musical movement in the United States begun in the 20th century mainly, though not exclusively, by Asian-American jazz musicians.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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August Burns Red

August Burns Red is an American metalcore band from Lancaster, Pennsylvania formed in 2003.

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Đàn tranh

The đàn tranh or đàn thập lụcLe, Tuan Hung.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bradley Fish

Bradley Fish (b. Bethesda, Maryland, 1970) is an American born musician based in Israel.

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Bridge (instrument)

A bridge is a device that supports the strings on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard, such as the top of a guitar or violin—which transfers the sound to the surrounding air.

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Central Conservatory of Music

The Central Conservatory of Music is China's leading music school.

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Chadagan

The chadagan is a Tuvan plucked zither.

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Chaozhou

Chaozhou, alternatively transliterated as Chiuchow, Chaochow, or Teochew, is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China.

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Cloisonné

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects.

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Cui Jian

Cui Jian (born 2 August 1961) is a Beijing-based Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist.

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Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" is a hit ballad single written by James Warren and first performed by the pop band The Korgis, of which Warren was lead singer.

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Fingerpick

A fingerpick is a type of plectrum used most commonly for playing bluegrass style banjo music.

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Firmiana simplex

Firmiana simplex, commonly known as the Chinese parasol tree, Chinese parasoltree, or wutong, is an ornamental plant of tree size that has recently been assigned to the family Malvaceae and was formerly the family Sterculiaceae in the order Malvales, and is native to Asia.

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Gayageum

The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other number of strings.

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Gorillaz

Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Guqin

The guqin is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family.

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Hakka people

The Hakkas, sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese people whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan and Guizhou.

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Halim El-Dabh

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades.

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Han Mei

Mei Han is a Chinese guzheng performer and scholar.

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou (Mandarin:; local dialect: /ɦɑŋ tseɪ/) formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China.

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Help!: A Day in the Life

Help!: A Day in the Life, released in 2005, is a compilation album of music by contemporary artists from Britain and Canada.

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Henan

Henan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country.

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.

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Jade

Jade is an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties, which is featured prominently in ancient Asian art.

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Jakko Jakszyk

Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor.

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Jaron Lanier

Jaron Zepel Lanier (born May 3, 1960) is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music.

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Jon Foreman

Jonathan Mark Foreman (born October 22, 1976) is an American musician, the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot.

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Jon Jang

Jon Jang (born March 11, 1954) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.

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Kevin Austin

Kevin Levi Austin (born 12 February 1973) is an English born Trinidadian former professional footballer who now works as a youth team coach for Scunthorpe United.

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Koto (instrument)

The koto (Japanese: 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument derived from the Chinese zheng, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.

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Lacquer

The term lacquer is used for a number of hard and potentially shiny finishes applied to materials such as wood.

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Liang Tsai-Ping

Liang Tsai-Ping (b. Gaoyang County (高阳县), Hebei, China, February 23, 1910 or 1911; d. Taipei, Taiwan, June 28, 2000) was a master of the guzheng, a Chinese traditional zither.

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Liao Zilan

Liao Zilan (born c. 1970) is an international concert circuit performer on the guzheng (Chinese zither).

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List of guzheng players

The following is a list of notable guzheng players in alphabetical order.

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Loop (music)

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer.

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Major scale

The major scale (or Ionian scale) is one of the most commonly used musical scales, especially in Western music.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Mike Hovancsek

Mike Hovancsek (born c. 1967) is an American,, and.

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Music of China

Music of China refers to the music of the Chinese people, which may be the music of the Han Chinese as well as other ethnic minorities within mainland China.

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My Fair Princess

My Fair Princess, also known as Return of the Pearl Princess or Princess Returning Pearl, is a 1998–1999 television costume drama jointly produced by Yi Ren Communications Co.

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Nacre

Nacre (also), also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it also makes up the outer coating of pearls.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument.

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Randy Raine-Reusch

Randy Raine-Reusch (born 1952) is a Canadian composer, performer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist specializing in New and Experimental Music for instruments from around the world, particularly those from East and Southeast Asia.

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Rescue & Restore

Rescue & Restore is the sixth full-length studio album by American metalcore band August Burns Red.

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Resin

In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a "solid or highly viscous substance" of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers.

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Ruby Lin

Ruby Lin Xinru (born January 27, 1976) is a Taiwanese actress, television and film producer, and singer.

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Samm Bennett

Samm Bennett (b. Birmingham, Alabama, 1957), is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Se (instrument)

The se is an ancient Chinese plucked zither (string instrument).

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Seashell

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created by an animal that lives in the sea.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Shuowen Jiezi

Shuowen Jiezi, often shortened to Shuowen, was an early 2nd-century Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty.

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Sigtryggur Baldursson

Sigtryggur Baldursson (born 2 October 1962) is an Icelandic drummer and singer.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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String (music)

A string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments such as the guitar, harp, piano (piano wire), and members of the violin family.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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The Korgis

The Korgis are a British pop band known mainly for their hit single "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" in 1980.

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The Sugarcubes

The Sugarcubes (Icelandic: Sykurmolarnir) were an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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To Live (novel)

To Live is a 1993 novel by Chinese novelist Yu Hua.

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Tortoiseshell

Tortoiseshell or tortoise shell is a material produced from the shells of the larger species of tortoise and turtle, mainly the hawksbill sea turtle, which is an endangered species largely because of its exploitation for the material.

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Virtual band

In music, a virtual band (also called a virtual group, cartoon group, or cartoon band) is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters.

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Wang Yong (musician)

Wang Yong (王勇; Beijing, 1964) is a Chinese rock and world music musician.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history of warfare, as well as bureaucratic and military reforms and consolidation, following the Spring and Autumn period and concluding with the Qin wars of conquest that saw the annexation of all other contender states, which ultimately led to the Qin state's victory in 221 BC as the first unified Chinese empire known as the Qin dynasty.

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Wu Fei

Wu Fei (b. May 12, 1977) is a composer, performer, and improviser from Beijing, China.

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Yatga

The yatug (Mongolian: yatug-a, Khalkha dialect: ятга yatga;; Chinese: 雅托葛) is a traditional Mongolian plucked zither, related to the Chinese guzheng.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zither

Zither is a class of stringed instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guzheng

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