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Film, Video Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music

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Title

  • Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music

Summary

  • Bing Xia performs on the Chinese guzheng, or zheng, a plucked zither that is thought to be about 2,500 years old ("gu" means "ancient" and has been added to the name zheng to indicate the great age of the zheng). The instrument changed over time, as the earliest guzheng had 12 strings, while the modern instrument has 21 to 25 strings. The guzheng is the ancestor of all Asian long zithers.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-05-21.

Headings

  • -  Bing Xia, music, guzheng, zheng
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Bing Xia.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-05-21.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689773

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689773/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2015) Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689773/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-21, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689773/>.