Wuxi Taoist music
Updated : 2015-04-07
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Wuxi Taoist music consists of vocal sounds and instrumental music and has distinctive secular and regional artistic features. The vocal music consists of scripture chanting in Wuxi dialect and the instrumental music consists of Sanskrit music and percussion music. The Sanskrit music is played with clappers and traditional stringed woodwind instruments. Percussion music is played with gongs, drums, flutes, and sheng, a traditional instrument. Many scores of traditional folk music are developed on the basis of Wuxi Taoist music, such as famous erhu - a two-stringed traditional Chinese instrument - solo in “Moon over a Fountain”, which was written by Abing (Hua Yanjun).
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