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LIU YUENING,YANGQINTuesday the th of April from .-.Room , the Royal Danish Academy of MusicRosenørns Allé , FrederiksbergYangqin professor and Director of Music Confucius Institute at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Liu Yuening, will give a lecture on the artistic charm of the Yangqin - the history and application of the folk instrument.

The Yangqin ( Chinese Hammer Dulcimer) was introduced to China years ago, now it is a localized and one of the popular traditional instruments in China. The currently generally used Yangqin in China is composed of four bridges, over strings and a single stand, the vocal range of which covers almost four octaves, it has complete semitones ex-cept the lack of three and half tones of the lowest tone. It is played by knocking and plucking strings with the hammer-ing tool called Qin Zhu which is made of bamboo.

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YU HONGMEI, ERHUWednesday, May st, .-. Room , the Royal Danish Academy of MusicRosenørns Allé , FrederiksbergYu Hongmei, Dean of the Traditional Instruments Department of Central Conservatory of Music, will briefly introduce the history, development, structure and musical features of the Erhu.

The Erhu has a drum resonator made of wood, one side of which is covered by python skin. Two metal strings stretch from the pegs to the drum resonator. When tuning strings strings, the inner string is tuned to d and outer string is tuned to a, the interval of the two strings is a fifth. Erhu has abundant playing techniques including vibrato, natural harmonic, artificial harmonic, trille, portamento by finger pad and pizzicato by left hand and martele, spiccato, tremble and ricochet by right hand. Playing of Erhu needs two hands’ cooperation.

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ZHANG HONGYAN, PIPAWednesday, May st, .-.Carl Nielsen Foyeren, the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Entrance via Julius Thomsens Gade , FrederiksbergPipa professor, Zhang Hongyan, will give a lecture on the origin and development of the Pipa as well as appreciation and beauty of Pipa classics.

The Chinese Lute (Pipa or Piba) is a -year-old instrument, the earliest record of which was found in the historical data of Han Dynasty. It is an instrument played on the horseback, to pluck forward is called “pi” and to pluck backward is called “ba”, therefore, it is called “Piba”.

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DAI YA, DIZIWednesday, May st, .-.Carl Nielsen Foyeren, the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Entrance via Julius Thomsens Gade , FrederiksbergDizi professor, Dai Ya, will give a lecture on the history, features and artistic charm of the traditional Chinese Bamboo Flute known as the Dizi.

The Bamboo Flute (Dizi) s a widely spread wind instrument of the Han nationality of China. The Dizi flute has rich musical expressions, it can play long and high-pitched sound as well as bold and broad tones; it can play lively magnif-icent dance music as well as tender and graceful minors. Except for its expression for graceful medolies, it can also play various sounds of nature, like birds’ twitters.

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ZHOU WANG,GUZHENG Friday the rd of May from .-. Room , the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Rosenørns Allé , FrederiksbergZhou wang, professor of the guzheng or guzheng as it is also known, will give a lecture on the sound and rythm of the guzheng and explain the link between the instrument and the art of Chinese calligrapy and language.

The Chinese -string Zither (Guzheng) is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China and an instru-ment of the Han nationality widely favored by people, which has a history of years.In recent decades, the playing techniques of Zheng have been developing continuously. Except for the right-hand-plucks and left-hand-stops traditional technique, to play with both hands has become a new feature of guzheng. The innovation of new techniques has rendered guzheng the ancient and traditional instrument more glamour.

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ZHAO XIAOXIA, GUQINFriday the rd of May from .-. Room , the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Rosenørns Allé , Frederiksberg.Guqin Lecturer, Zhao Xiaoxia, will briefly introduce the history of the Guqin (-stringed zither) and explain further the playing techniques, score-recording and artistic features of the Guqin. She will also present ways to start learning the Guqin.

The -string Zither (Guqin) is the oldest plucked stringed instrument in China, it was called “qin” originally and up to now is -year-old. The Guqin has a wide vocal range and strong expressions. Its score-recording techniques are -year-old. kinds of scores can be found today among the Guqin documents handed down to now, which cover over one thousant different melodies and scores.

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QIAO JIAJIA,PERCUSSIONFriday the rd of May from .-. Room , the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Rosenørns Allé , Frederiksberg.

Qiao Jiajia, Director of the Music Confucius Institute and professor in percussion, will give a lecture on Chinese per-cussion, its history and application. Percussion is a lively performance style.

All over the world, different ethnic people have their own percussion instruments and performance styles. What’s the special of Chinese percussion? Through this Lecture, the audience will know a wide variety of Chinese instruments as well as the special language of Chinese percussion and the performance style.

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LectureQIN WENCHEN,COMPOSITIONWednesday May st from . - .Studiescenen, the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Rosenørns Allé , Frederiksberg.Every traditional Chinese musical instrument has its distinctive features, unique methods of sound production and different musical interests. In this lecture, Qin Wenchen will expound the influences of these musical instruments to composition practice with specific musical works, and likes to further communicate with listeners.

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Thursday May nd from .-.Carl Nielsen Foyer, Entrance via Julius Thomsens Gade , Frederiksberg

This lecture will thoroughly introduce the development history, expression forms and aesthetic features of traditional Chinese music with abundant audio examples. Furthermore, the lecture will reveal the distinctive charisma of traditional Chinese music in the course of contemporary development to audiences by introducing contemporary Chinese composers’ different types of composition with application of traditional Chinese musical materials and concepts under the shock of modern western musical thoughts.

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WANG CIZHAO,MUSICOLOGY

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