From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained. The ‘Chinese bagpipes ...

For the teenagers, being musicians at the Confucius Temple has opened a door to connect with tradition. "One of the students ...

We look at China's earliest musical instruments, how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern ...

Lithophones comprising stone chimes in a frame were played at the imperial court and in rituals, and feature in Chinese ...

"Dedicated to gods, many poems express human emotions, particularly themes of love, longing, separation and the transient ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

With the international success of Celestial Symphony, Li has noticed that many of his classmates have expressed their desire ...

This year, a new version of the 2013 epic commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival (BMF) and composed by Zhou will be ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The 7th China Now Music Festival themed "Composing the Future" came to a close Saturday evening in New York City with a concert that fused East-West musical traditions ...

Eric Shi, a Chinese banjoist and content creator, promotes his instrument and bluegrass — a genre of American roots music — ...