古典民乐的英文介绍

我国古典民乐源于劳动人民的生活以丰富多彩的形式存在于现实生活中。下面小编为大家整理的古典民乐的英文介绍，希望对大家有用!

古典民乐的英文介绍

Chinese national music is the traditional art or court music of China. It has a long history stretching for more than three thousand years. It has its own unique systems of musical notation, as well as musical tuning and pitch, musical instruments and styles or musical genres.

Chinese national music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave as does European-influenced music.

Chinese national music appeared dating back to the dawn of Chinese civilization, and documents and artifacts provide evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC–256 BC).

National music is probably more familiar with us than we might think at first image. Indeed, it is all around us in the past and can be noticed in restaurants, supermarkets, lifts, advertisements or in television programmes.

Unluckily, while national music is socially undivisive in itself, it has unfortunately become associated in most people’s minds with the intellectual elite. Even now, and with certain honorable exceptions, the attending of a live concert can be an intimidating (not to say costly) experience for the uninitiated, especially in that most jealously guarded of establishments, the opera house. The wonderful thing about the technological age in which we live, and particularly the advent of the compact disc, is that we can bypass all irrelevant social and intellectual pretence, and enjoy in the comfort of our own home (often at far less cost) some of the finest music ever composed.