Ch. 4 Flashcards
The main type of Chinese popular musical theater that first emerged in the Chinese capital of Beijing in the later eighteenth century
Peking Opera
Chinese term for Peking Opera, meaning “theater of the capital”
Jingju
Performance which involves singing without staging, costume, or makeup
Qing chang
A slight rising and falling in pitch
Vibrato
Tablature for the Chinese seven-stringed zither, the qin; it is made up of clusters of abbreviated Chinese characters
Jianzipu
Literally meaning “elegant music,” it was Chinese Court music of imperial China
Yayue
“To obtain from the notation,” reconstructing the qin tablature into actual sounds
Dapu
Banquet entertainment music
Yan yue
Elegant Japanese Court orchestral music
Gagaku
A slide or sweep between two pitches
Portamento
Chinese chamber instrumental ensemble made up of strings (silk) and winds (bamboo) popular in the areas around Shanghai
Jiangnam Sizhu
Two or more performers play the same melody but with small differences in timing or ornamentation
Heterophony
Popular song produced in Shanghai since the late 1920s that is a hybrid of various Western and Chinese musical genres. Its lyrics are sung in the Chinese National tongue, Mandarin
Liuxing Gequ
Popular Chinese song genre of the 1980s and 90s. It combines a disco beat with Chinese folk music, and its lyrics are deliberately artless and simple
Xibeifeng
