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

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and ...

Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn. The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments ...

The musicians, all of whom have achieved top honors in prestigious music competitions, were invited by Chinese Consul General ...

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

The musicians, all of whom have achieved top honors in prestigious music competitions, were invited by Chinese Consul General ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments - so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as "silk and bamboo", refers to string and wind musical instruments.

We also have the sape, a string instrument from Sarawak. The sape has a long neck and wooden body, resembling a guitar.

A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 ...

Silk instruments are mostly string instruments (including plucked, bowed, and struck). Since the very beginning, the Chinese have used silk for strings, though today metal or nylon are more frequently ...

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 ...