Traditional popular music quotes, Guzheng, Koto, Yatga.

          In the art of playing music instrument, there are various tools in the world of music is very well known, one stringed music instrument of China Guzheng. Currently Guzheng much in demand because of the strains of music coming out of each passage gives a sense of calm, peace for pendengaranya. Guzheng or Chinese lute including Chinese traditional musical instrument of the most popular. Guzheng has a convex shape like a box made of wood as the voice box, stretched 21 strings on it. In the middle of the string is placed a booster that can be shifted to increase or decrease the frequency of the tone. The strings in the set on Chinese pentatonic melodies consisting of tone: do, re, mi, sol and la.Guzheng is played by plucking. Fingers to strum using the tools of artificial nails made of tortoise shell or plastic. The right hand is generally used to play the melody, while the left hand is used to play the chord. There are many techniques used in playing the Guzheng, including basic revoke actions (right or both hands) on the right and pressing the action on the left (with left hand to produce decorative pitch and vibrato) as well as tremolo (right hand). Plucking is done mainly by the right hand with four plectra (choose) that sticks to your fingers. Advanced players can use a pick attached to the fingers of both hands. In a more traditional show, however, plectra used solely on the right hand, reflecting its use for melodic purposes and its relative importance compared with the left hand is used solely for the purpose of ornamentation. Famous pieces of instruments including Yu Zhou Chang Wan (Singing at night on a fishing boat), Gao Shan Liu Shui (High mountains flowing water), Mei Hua San Nong (Three variations of the theme of Plum Blossom) and Han Gong Qiu Yue (During the season Han palace autumn moon). Two broad playing styles (schools) can be identified as North and South, although many traditional regional styles still exist. Northern style is associated with the Henan and Shandong while the Southern style is with the Chaozhou and Hakka area of ​​eastern Guangdong. Both Gao Shan Liu Shui (High mountains flowing water) and Han Gong Qiu Yue (Han palace autumn moon) comes from the Shandong school, while Han ya xi shui (Winter Crows Playing in the Water) and Chu shui lian (Lotus Blossoms Emerging of water) is a major part of the Chaozhou and Hakka repertories respectively. Contemporary experimental atonal pieces have been compiled since the 1980s. A more modern playing techniques is to use his left hand to give a harmonious and bass notes, heavily influenced by music theory Barat.Hal This allows greater flexibility in the range of musical instruments, allowing for harmonious development. But this also has limitations, because it prevents subtle decoration is provided by the left hand in the traditional music. Students who take the exam from the Guzheng Beijing Conservatory is necessary to study the repertoire of traditional and modern pieces.

 Not only in China, a stringed musical instrument is a derivative of Guzheng koto. Koto (筝) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese Guzheng, Koto
 is the national instrument of Japan. Koto about 180 cm, length, and made of wood left(Paulownia tomentosa). They have 13 strings are strained more than 13 bridges moving along the width of the instrument. Players can adjust the pitch of the string withmove this bridge before playing, and use your fingers to take three (on the thumb, forefinger and middle finger) to pluck the strings. Modern Koto from gakusō used in Japanese court music. This is the instrument popular among the rich; koto considered a romantic instrument. Some literary and historical records indicate that there are pieces of solo koto sōkyoku centuries before, the music of solo koto genre was established.According to the literature of Japan, the koto is used as an image and other extra-musical meaning. In one part of "The Tales of Genji (Genji monogatari)", Genji falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, who he has never seen before, after he heard her playing koto from a distance. For each part of the koto no traditional name that connects with the opinion that the body of a koto-like dragon. Name to the top because it's "Dragonshell" (Ryuko / 竜 甲) (asian dragon is believed to have a shell like a turtle), the bottom is called "Dragonstomach" (Ryuhara / 竜 腹), one end of the koto, seen as a colorful fabricshell removeable, known as "Dragonhead". The "Dragonhead" consists of "Dragonhorns" (Ryukaku / 竜 角), "Dragontongue" (Ryushita / 竜 舌) and so on. The bottom of the koto implies "Dragontail" and Sky Chair (Tenmiyo / 天 御 代) or Cloudhorns (Kumokaku / 云 角), wooden pillow descriptions for strings. In the older pop and rock music, David Bowie uses the koto in "Moss Garden" piece instrumental album "Heroes". Multi-instrumentalist, founder and former guitarist of The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones playing the koto on the song Take It Or Leave It, the album Aftermath, 1966. Paul Gilbert, a popular guitar virtuosoist, recorded his wife, Emi playing the koto on "Koto Girl" song from the album Alligator Farm.Kagrra rock band, famous for the use of traditional Japanese musical instruments in many of their songs, an example of "Utakata" (うたかた), a song where the koto has a prominent place. Winston Tong, singer with Tuxedomoon, using the 15-minute song, "Hunger" from his debut solo album rock bands uses theoretical Cina.Ratu (toy) koto in "The Prophet Song" on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. 1999 album Dr. Dre in 2001 Chronic usually have synthesized koto on two tracks - "Still DRE" and "The Message". David Horvitz play an instrument in the setting of contemporary indie rock scene on the album Xiu Xiu, The Air Force. Koto on Western musical influences are also seen in jazz. "In-sen" scale, a scale of five notes, was first introduced to jazz by John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner [citation needed] (another koto player) and is based on the tuning of the koto. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck composed "Koto Song" that, while not showing itself koto, played to allow the piano to imitate his voice. June Kuramoto of the jazz fusion group Hiroshima is one of the first players to popularize the koto koto in non-traditional fusion style. Reiko Obata, the founder of East West Jazz band, is the first to perform and record an album of jazz standards featuring koto. Obata also produced for the first time the English language koto instructional DVD "You Can Play Koto". Brett Larner is also active in jazz, recording a duet CD with legendary saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton.

           Other stringed music instrument derived from the Guzheng is yatga of Mongolia. Yatga can vary greatly in size, tuning the amount, and the bridge and strings; body is a long wooden box, one end sloping to bawah.Pelaku plucks the string with the finger nails right hand, left hand used to press the strings, the various records . The left hand can also be used to play a basic string with no pinch. Depending on the style of the high string is taken by finger or by selecting.          The most commonly used types of contemporary yatga is twenty-one-stringed versi.tipe yatga also called "Master Yatga." The length of full-size instrument 1.62m or 63 inches.Shorter versions of the high-pitched. 13-string version called "Gariin Yatga" (Yatga Hand).Historically, twelve-string version is used in the palace for symbolic reasons: twelve string associated with the twelve levels of the palace hierarchy. The common people should play in yatga 10-strings. The use of version 12 or more strings that are provided to the court and the monasteries. Janggar traditional Mongolian epic tells the story of a young princess who never played on a 800-string yatga with 82 bridges;. He should just play on the seven bridges is lower.Playing techniques yatga One end is placed on the knee yatga actors, the other end will be on the floor or will be included on the stand. Some players prefer to put yatga on two feet.This instrument will be placed in a higher position the strings on the right side and front, and will be played only on the right side of the bridge. Pitch of the string can also be varied by moving the bridge. Because the two records are missing should be no space between brigges of E and G strings, and also some space between A and C strings. The instruments are tuned by mechanics hidden on the right side yatga it. After setting the basic instrument is set by the bridge. Players can vary the pitch or tone of a note by one half when pressing the left side of the string with half of the road.