MusicJake+Weisensel

VOCAB WORDS flute- Aerophone woodwind instrument with many different variaties
 * ehru-A bowed instrument with 2 strings, a long neck, and a drum like bottom with python skin covering.[[image:th_ehru.jpg width="220" height="158" align="right"]] the ehru
 * pop-POPular music.
 * Lang, Lang- a pianist from china.
 * folk music- A form of music.

Chineese music is very much the same as ours.In fact most of their music is acctually ours!

In the past they almost all listened to folk music. Folk is a type of music ussually played with many improvised instruments and some percusion and string instruments.In america folk music is thought of as some people sitting in the mountains around a fire with a fiddle an guitar...but thats acctualy what it is a lot of times! But this is only the backroots.

Traditional music is a big influence on the chineese people. Many of their dances,myths,stories and even manny of their childhoods were influenced with music. Many parents will force their children to play an instrument that they do not want to play, and practice it for hours on end.

Due to an overpowering government some voices are never to be heard. Many singers are shot down before they make in the big time because the government is afraid they might be a rebelion up bringer, the chinese government is not tollorent of this at all! some people have lost their lives because of things that they wrote in their songs or said on stage.

There are many religiouse orchastras playing music for their gods (especially the han people.) these groups feature men and women on sting and percusion instruments. Sometimes it is just a snakeskin drum and an ehru and sometimes they consist of everything from the most sophisticated pianos and well strung guitars to garbage cans and water pails just so that they can honor their gods with their music.