YC230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Concert Band, String Vibration, A Common Story
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Instruments as objects: ideas about instrument types. Chinese classi ed their instruments according to the natural material that produced each instrument"s sound. The eight sounds (ba yin) were those of metal, stone, skin, vegetable gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, and earth (i. e. , pottery) The phrase still names natural materials, but the intention now is to suggest a pleasing combination of different timbres: the classi cation system for musical instruments, dating from the early centuries of the. Wind instruments are also referred to in more speci c categories, brass and woodwind. > go to page #39 for each instrument in detail: a category of corpophones is another possibility, to include hand-clapping, nger snapping, body slapping, and the like into the system. At the same time they acknowledge musical roles and sociocultural musical importance informed by variety and popularity: the most popular and varied are the wooden, metal, and membrane instruments.