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baban
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Traditional Chinese melodic from with eight main melodic phrases; most
traditional solo zheng pieces are in this form
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Beijing Opera
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Aka Peking opera; best known type of Chinese opera; features heightened
speech, song, dance, mime, acting and acrobatics; the heavily socialism-laden
“revolutionary operas” of the 1960’s and 1970’s represented a radical
transformation of the genre during that period
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Confucianism
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the
sociopolitical doctrine and philosophy originating with the writings of
Confucius, which stressed rigid social hierarchy, civic responsibility and a
particular conception of morally virtuous social order; basis of Chinese
society for many centuries from Han dynasty on; top of social hierarchy was
junzi class who played the qin; similar to Doctrine of Ethos
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Communist era
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1949-1965; rule by Mao Zedong; establishment of
zheng programs in most major conservatories; significant western influences on
zheng music and playing styles such as 2 handed plucking- more virtuosic
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Cultural Revolution
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1966-1976;
final period of Mao Zedong’s leadership of China from; unprecedented levels of
intolerance for any deviation from communist state ideology; extreme
restrictions on cultural and artistic expression- no zheng or opera
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Dap
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traditional Uighur frame drum; drum head made of
donkey hide or snake skin
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Deng Haiqiong
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Leading zheng player
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Deng Xiaoping
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leader
of China during the Period of Openness; tried to reconcile free enterprise with
communism and loosened constraints on culture
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Erhu
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2 string upright fiddle
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Gua zou
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general term for a wide variety of glissando-type
ornaments used in zheng and other Chinese instrumental traditions
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Han
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Chinese ethnic majority; 92% of China’s population
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Han dynasty
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202-220;
Confucianism was foundation of social order; zheng was popular and solo zheng
tradition developed
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Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
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leader
of Chinese Nationalist party regime that succeeded the Qing dynasty; focused on
modernizing China by developing a new Chinese nationalism rooted in economic,
social and cultural reform (music was key)
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Mao Zedong
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leader of Chinese Communist Party; his regime from
1949-1965 saw profound reformation of Chinese society and culture; thought
music should only serve socialist state
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Ming dynasty
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1386-1644; reemergence of zheng- became standard
item in home; rise of middle class
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