Silk and Bamboo Ensembles
Ensembles made up primarily of strings, flutes, and small percussion instruments are usually referred to as sizhu (丝竹; pinyin: sīzhú; literally "silk bamboo") ensembles. They include:
- Chaozhou xianyue (潮州弦乐; literally "Chaozhou string music") - Chaozhou silk and bamboo ensemble
- Fuzhou shifan (福州十番) - ten sound variations of Fuzhou (in Fujian Province)
- Hakka sixian (客家丝弦; literally "Hakka silk string ") - Hakka silk and bamboo ensemble
- Hebei chuige (河北吹歌) - Hebei wind songs, see Jizhong guanyue
- Hengchui ensemble (横吹) - wind music
- Jiangnan sizhu (江南丝竹) - string and wind music from the region directly south of the Yangtze River, near Shanghai
- Jizhong chuige (冀中吹歌) - wind songs of central Hebei
- Jizhong guanyue (冀中管乐) - wind music of central Hebei
- Nanguan (南管; pinyin: nánguǎn; literally "southern pipe") - an instrumental genre originating in Fujian; also performed in Taiwan and Singapore; also called nanyin (南音), nanyue (南樂), or nanqu (南曲)
Read more about this topic: List Of Ensemble Formations In Traditional Chinese Music
Famous quotes containing the words silk and, silk and/or bamboo:
“Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin gear;
Crouch upon a stone,
Wrapping that foul body up
In as foul a rag....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Even in a bamboo tube, a snake still wants to wiggle.”
—Chinese proverb.