Early History of Music in China
According to the Mencius an influential ruler once asked him whether it was moral if he preferred music to the classics. The answer was th...
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According
to the Mencius an influential ruler once asked him whether it was moral if he
preferred music to the classics. The answer was that it only matter that the
ruler was loved with his subjects. The imperial music Bureau, first founded in
the Qin Dnasty from 221 to 201 BC was greatly expanded under emperor Han Wu Di
from 140 to 87 BC and charged with supervising the court music and military
music that determined what the folk music would be officially seen. In the
subsequent dynasties, the establishment of the Chinese music was strongly powered
by the foreign music especially the Central Asia.
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The
oldest known was written music by Youlan or the solitary orchild that
attributed to Confucius the first major well-document that flower the Chinese
music was for the qin during the Tang dynasty from 618 to 907AD, while the qin
is known to have been played since before the Han Dynasty.
The
ancient China of the social status of the musicians was much lower than that of
the painters, though music was seen as central to the peace and longevity of
the state. Mainly every emperor took folk songs important, sending officers to
collect songs to inspect the famous will. One of the Confucianist Classics, Shi
Jing (the classics of poetry) that contain many folk songs has been traced back
from 800 BC to about 400BC.
The
first European to reach China with the musical instrument was Jesuit priest
Matteo Ricci who invented the Harpsichord to the Lee imperial court in 1601 and
trained four eunuchs to play it.
