DISCOVERING CHINA a Web Site for Access Asia schools  maintained at  McKinnon Secondary College

Music & Drama

If music interests you, go straight to the following sites:
The Beijing Opera
Music and Voices

Music and Voices has an audio archive from which you can down load traditional, revolutionary and popular music from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Rutger's University of New Jersey also has an extensive archive of Chinese music of various periods.

A good place to go to find out more about Chinese musical instruments is Lark In The Morning, a musicians' service founded in 1974 that specialises in hard to find musical instruments, music and instructional materials. . Here you can find pictures and descriptions of individual instruments.

This is a Xiao.

The page describes it as

The Xiao, or Chinese shakuhachi, is made of bamboo and originated over 2000 years ago. It was some time during the Tang and Sung Dynasty when the vertically-played instruments were categorised as Xiao and those horizontally-played as dizi. The Xiao is not only a unique solo instrument but is also used widely in ensembles and for accompanying purposes. Its mellow tone quality makes it most suitable for playing lyrical melodies.