The Unique Chinese National Musical Instruments

The Chinese-made musical instruments, qin, zheng, bamboo flute and xiao, enjoy an irreplaceable position in the international instrument market, for their time-honored history, unique musical effect and delicate craftsmanship. Ancient zheng, named after its sound, is one of the oldest musical instruments of China. According to ancient records, zheng was popular in the Qin region (Shaanxi today) in 400 B.C. At that time, a zheng had 10 swings and was made of wood. In 900 B.C., the

Construction of Three-in-one Industry and Cultural Inheritance of Musical Instruments of Li People in Hainan from the Perspective of Rural Revitalization

From the perspective of industrial integration,how the musical instruments of Li people in Hainan can solve the current development problems such as lack of endogenous power and market enthusiasm under the strategy of rural revitalization to walk out a unique road of three-in-one industry construction was studied.

Exploration on the Foundations of Contemporary Education and Ethnic Music Education from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments

With the rapid development of multicultural arts,music education has become an important component of the educational research system.However,the teaching of traditional Chinese folk musical instruments,as an essential branch of music education teaching,has been neglected.This paper discusses the significance of Chinese folk musical instrument education from three aspects:the history of Chinese folk musical instruments,the development of folk musical instrument teaching,and the integration of modern musical instrument education with folk musical instrument education.

Sounds Synthesis with Slime Mould of Physarum Polycephalum

This paper introduces a novel application of bionic engineering： a bionic musical instrument using Physarum polycephalum. Physarum polycephalum is a huge single cell with thousands of nuclei, which behaves like a giant amoeba. During its foraging behavior this plasmodium produces electrical activity corresponding to different physiological states. We developed a method to render sounds from such electrical activity and thus represent spatio-temporal behavior of slime mould in a form apprehended auditorily. The electrical activity is captured by various electrodes placed on a Petri dish containing the cultured slime mold. Sounds are synthesized by a bank of parallel sinusoidal oscillators connected to the electrodes. Each electrode is responsible for one partial of the spectrum of the resulting sound. The behavior of the slime mould can be controlled to produce different timbres.

Prediction of lute acoustic quality based on soundboard vibration performance using multiple choice model

The vibrational performance of wood materials critical affects the acoustic quality of a lute. The purpose of this research was to apply a multiple choice model to predict the quality of musical instruments based on data on lute soundboard vibrational properties of Paulownia wood. In the lute production, lute material selection mainly depends on the subjective evaluation of technicians, which is not only inefficient, but inaccurate. In this study, nine lutes were fabricated. Using the multiple selection model, the lute tone quality was predicted by the soundboard wood vibration data. Compared with the actual value, the dependent value predicted by the count of observations with the maximum probability had 22 erroneous judgments. The model precision is 87.78%. The results confirmed that the prediction model can be used as a guideline for the selection of the soundboard wood in musical instrument plants.

Research on Aesthetic Education in Instrumental Music Teaching

Aesthetic education is an important part of instrumental music teaching content.The study of aesthetic education in instrumental music teaching can not only cultivate sentiment and improve artistic accomplishment,but also promote the healthy and all-round development of students.Through the emotional experience,the students can feel the emotion contained in the music,creating and transmitting the beauty in the performance.This paper starts from the importance of aesthetic education in instrumental music teaching,and analyzes the current situation of aesthetic education in instrumental music teaching,and puts forward corresponding implementation strategies,in order to truly realize the value of talent cultivation and art in instrumental music teaching.

Computer Aided Design System for Developing Musical Fountain Programs

A computer aided design system for developing musical fountain programs was developed with multiple functions such as intelligent design, 3-D animation, manual modification and synchronized motion to make the development process more efficient. The system first analyzed the music form and sentiment using many basic features of the music to select a basic fountain program. Then, this program is simulated with 3-D animation and modified manually to achieve the desired results. Finally, the program is transformed to a computer control program to control the musical fountain in time with the music. A prototype system for the musical fountain was also developed. It was tested with many styles of music and users were quite satisfied with its performance. By integrating various functions, the proposed computer aided design system for developing musical fountain programs greatly simplified the design of the musical fountain programs.