China (Grove Music Online)
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
Keeping China’s Ancient Music Alive (NPR, 3/10/2009)
“The Emperor’s New Music: The High Stakes of Popular Music in Ancient China” (Xiaofei Tan, Lapham’s Quarterly, 2017)
MTSU Center for Chinese Music and Culture (with Mei Han)
- Introduction to Chinese Musical Instruments
- Bayin (categorization system)
- Qing (stone chimes)
- Biyanzhong (bronze bells)
- Xun (clay flute)
Peking Opera
- Peking Opera (UNESCO documentary)
- Mei Lanfang performs “The Drunken Concubine”
Bell Chime Ensemble
Qin (Guqin) and Zheng (Guzheng)
- Guqin history
- Documentary excerpt on Wu Wenguang (1984)
- Wu Wenguang plays “Liu Shui” (“Flowing Water”)
- Guqin demonstration by Wang Fei
- Wu Zhaoji
- “Guangling San“
- North American Guqin Association
- John Thompson guqin site
- Guqin improvisation (with link to dapu)
- Tablature and playing technique
- Hand gesture illustrations (from Taiyin Daquanji/Taigu Yiyin, Folio 3)
- “Lore of the Chinese Lute: Symbolism of the Finger Technique,” R. H. Van Gulik (1940)
- Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn (Old Town School, 2022)
Erhu
- Abing (wiki page w/recording of Moon Reflected on Second Springs/Erquan Yingue)
- Documentary on Abing
- “The Moon’s Reflection on the Second Spring”:
Pipa
Miscellaneous