Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-19
THE MUSIC OF CHINA.
THE SONGS AND soNGSTeRs OF
THE FLoWERY KINGDOM.


/ n feartui uhhiut Eouhueoo on Aa"esH rim
cipIes-The Higher the Notes the Worse
the Infiction-Popuiar songs-A List Of
Nerye-Rasping Instruments.
In the golden days of China the musical art
and its professors held high distinction, but
now TO be musician, the author tells us, sis
] the lowest calling man can profess" There
| is still, however, at Pekin, a board Of music
connected with the board Of rites, but the
officers seem little anxious to distinguish
/ themselves. Once serious music was studied
with the classics, but is now totally
abandoned. The common people, however,
delight in music, and love gong-beatings and
clarionet shriekings, but they do not play
themselves. The professional musician is a
blind man.
Mr.. Macfarren tells us that instruments of
percussion were first invented, then those
giving sounds by wind, and lastly by the
vibrations of strings The lus, series Of
bamboo tubes, the Chinese declare to be the
first instrument. We have drawing of the
twelve tubes making the lus, and every other
tube is shorter, q short tube being placed be-
tween two longer ones. OF course blowing
them in succession makes fearful gamut, at
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ears the smaller is the spacing.
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any .'n,' aoiin. sen ss' s'' IN 'ue san, ous
ptaeli.ahy oh,y US nv. az ~ 'ne ,hiue VI
tne mus, yae 'nl', . ci. ,aso no"s ihui''''l,e 1,,
ol .nis. ine us' ~, e, Nnilie'e g nus,elhh c"up'
oniy eonJec'uie 'ie seneia' aorhi VI Written
p,eee SHOWN MN ioI .he ilrs' t,lne. 10 oe
ao'e uuipnei ne hius' nhs' near II
Pny We can unus,s s,sliiu , iro'li .l,s no"
olilu musician HIS aii TUE necessary |nihese
'oauireihenls'
10 pay as you please 70 keep 0ninese
.iiM' lor tne .uileS, ihouiieu py ihuiViauai
.aste ol Ine performer, may aloer apse OF
tiine become qui.e ainereh. from "hao tney
| u
scaie' WIN no ha1 nor snarp, IN tnis tne
Sninese ma al Tue variations winch satisiy
tneir mus'cai tastes. "nether tney nave
mayor OF nnhor scaie mas oeen disputed, put
mr. van 4Na,s' say .ney NIX po.p .oeeeher'
AS 10 tne ienneihehus ., crscehoos' ae,esceh-
aos, Fgaoos, that Is al ieaiiah 10 tne Snihese'
40 sing IN Snina y 70 use .ne noss. Tongue,
.ee,n, anu ups p,onouhce pro-. tne syilao,es' put 10
ho'hi,lg eis. WIN 'oiA ue .e'e Tue WOMEN
squeas' anu very a'sas'eeao'e 'niig I" s !"
n',,r .nenh
IN aue o'~ n'ay 70 loun1 ~ al eAaiip,es
ol Ininesc poPuiai sonss, pue we oouo'
m Nne'ner any AneI'an e. puo'i'ne,s oi u, musi.
VIII eseI P"a ene''' one "aiiila
en''' IL, ans p, la,,iang, or
mpia'ne wang, rmyed On .ne piano OF
SUM, nooS s = s',,;. ,s saei' @ vIoun o,n., nJ a
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Par : e,aiin .nas :. posses'es equai u hot 81,
w, w aa' a ..t' IN NJ go. ., s'es,
We oaii my as, WIN ~, l,ls -, %
,esaiu' ene ,,S,-,uu y, o r., o'nes he,e
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.io,S In, ,.a " yyn 10 '", w. s". 'o,a'a .ai
" -uaoan. as' na W ouihA,
however, s Una. tne wo,us Oh tn,s song are Oh
mucn nigher poeucai esalscer a, 'e, 'han are
our own: IN @ one song enAued' AiaT,ia mao
mngpai " mamna' you understaha
WELL tnereis sone very very iaiht approach
70 otuheiuiness-pus oniy ieeoio suegestioh.
Inhese must pe iona Oh tnese songs, as we
are told that some Oh them nave forty-eight
verses In a Iuneral OF wedding marcn ex-
pressiohs Oh griei Ut JOY are u'oeriy ihdis-
tnguishaple. -
CHAPTERS, IhANGLEs, 'oNos AND DRUMS.
As 10 the instruments .nere are several
guitars, Parueuiariy apsuru t"o-s,rig
vionn, nutes, a telescope k,nd Oh trombone,
long uumpe., cynoais' eiApp@rs, ulangies'
Win gohgs ano uiun.s IA oiuiess 'o'N'y'
Fl giant Shnese Oh IormeI periou USED 70
play on tne Gu uh-a ions h,1o Vi n.ner .nae
mas seven s.rhgs onoe enere MeIe ch nlS
win hity strihgs, Due . very sens'.,se el,-
peror-huang H-naVihg nearu miss gu
perform on II, was ''lplesea 'I s 30 ueepy anu