ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONING OF FOLK WIND INSTRUMENTS OF FLUTE AND TONGUE TYPES IN CHINA

Abstract

Chinese folk wind music is not only an essential part of Chinese culture, but also the pearl of the world musical art as a whole. To date, this is a fairlylargescale artistic system, it satisfies a wide variety of practical and artistic and aesthetic needs both in the composing tradition and in performing practice. The history of Chinese folk wind instruments goes back to ancient times. They have achieved great success in their development and are an important component of a large family of instruments of different peoples, which is based on flute and tongue types of sound formation. The author of the article attempts to analyze the functional features of some Chinese folk wind instruments of this type from the point of view of the history of their development and distribution, classification, external characteristics and ways of playing based on the study and systematization of Chinese studies. The introduction into scientific use of foreign-language sources that have not yet been translated into Russian made it possible to supplement the material with new, previously unknown facts, that expand the understanding of China’s performing culture of the past and present.