唱 片 chàng piàn gramophone record / LP / music CD / musical album / CL:張|张[zhang1] 节 奏 jié zòu rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat 大 作 dà zuò your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly 音 箱 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box 演 奏 yǎn zòu to perform on a musical instrument 乐 器 yuè qì musical instrument / CL:件[jian4] 乐 曲 yuè qǔ musical composition 背 景 音 乐 bèi jǐng yīn yuè background music (BGM) / soundtrack / musical setting 咪 咪 mī mī oboe-like musical instrument used in folk music of Gansu, Qinghai etc / (onom.) meow / kitty kitty! / Mimi (Western name) / tits (i.e. slang for breasts) 基 调 jī diào main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech) 音 调 yīn diào pitch of voice (high or low) / pitch (of a musical note) / tone 乐 谱 yuè pǔ a musical score / sheet music 曲 艺 qǔ yì folk musical theater 音 乐 之 声 Yīn yuè zhī shēng The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965) 乐 音 yuè yīn musical note / tone 音 阶 yīn jiē musical scale 丝 竹 sī zhú traditional Chinese musical instruments / music 昆 曲 Kūn qǔ Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times 调 音 tiáo yīn to tune (a musical instrument) 重 奏 chóng zòu musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 / or trio 三重奏) 扬 琴 yáng qín yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument) 八 音 bā yīn ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹) / the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories / music 乐 句 yuè jù musical phrase 金 gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] 杂 剧 zá jù a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy 三 弦 sān xián sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra 谱 子 pǔ zi musical score 关 汉 卿 Guān Hàn qīng Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 石 rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] 总 谱 zǒng pǔ musical score 土 earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] 音 sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) 马 致 远 Mǎ Zhì yuǎn Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1] 木 tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] 追 to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old) 尺 one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3] 弦 bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:根[gen1] 箫 xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes 籁 a sound / a noise / musical pipe with 3 reeds 镈 ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade 絃 variant of 弦 / bow string / string of musical instrument / watch spring / chord (straight line joining two points on a curve) / hypotenuse 高 山 流 水 gāo shān liú shuǐ fig. intimate and understanding friend / sublime musical composition 八 音 盒 bā yīn hé musical box 嘂 old variant of 叫[jiao4] / ancient musical instrument similar to ocarina 七 声 qī shēng tones of the musical scale 三 和 弦 sān hé xián triad / musical chord of three notes, such as major triad do-mi-so 五 度 wǔ dù five degrees / fifth (basic musical interval, doh to soh) 促 弦 cù xián to tighten the strings (of a musical instrument) 修 音 xiū yīn voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument) 喜 歌 剧 院 xǐ gē jù yuàn musical theater / Opéra Comique, Paris 嘲 哳 zhāo zhā (onom.) clamorous noise made by numerous people talking or singing, or by musical instruments, or birds twittering 小 技 xiǎo jì small skills / folk musical theater 击 弦 类 jī xián lèi hammered string type (of musical instrument) 击 弦 类 乐 器 jī xián lèi yuè qì hammered string musical instrument 整 声 zhěng shēng to tune (a musical instrument) / to regulate the sound 梧 桐 木 wú tóng mù Paulownia wood used for musical instruments 琴 书 qín shū traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment 白 朴 Bái Pǔ Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 编 磬 biān qìng musical instrument consisting of a set of chime stones suspended from a beam and struck as a xylophone 舞 台 音 乐 wǔ tái yīn yuè musical theater 补 足 音 程 bǔ zú yīn chéng complementary interval / addition musical interval adding to an octave 谱 表 pǔ biǎo musical stave 郑 光 祖 Zhèng Guāng zǔ Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 / tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家 音 名 yīn míng names of the notes of a musical scale (e.g. C, D, E or do, re, mi) 音 级 yīn jí a note on a musical scale 音 长 yīn cháng sound duration / length of a musical note 三 味 线 sān wèi xiàn shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument 不 结 盟 和 其 他 发 展 中 国 家 民 族 乐 器 博 物 馆 Museum of National Musical Instruments from Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries 国 际 青 年 音 乐 家 联 合 会 International Federation of Musical Youth 吹 孔 chuī kǒng (of a musical instrument) blow hole 工 尺 谱 gōng chě pǔ traditional Chinese musical notation using Chinese characters to represent musical notes 流 韵 liú yùn musical sound / flowing rhythm (of poetry) / cadence 膜 孔 mó kǒng hole in the body of a musical instrument, covered with a membrane which produces a buzzing tone 时 代 曲 shí dài qǔ shidaiqu, a musical genre that originated in Shanghai in the 1920s, a fusion of Chinese folk music and Western jazz
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