重奏 chóng zòu musical ensemble of several instruments (e.g. duet 二重奏 or trio 三重奏) 三重奏 sān chóng zòu trio (musical ensemble) 八重奏 bā chóng zòu octet (musical ensemble) 工尺谱 工尺譜 gōng chě pǔ traditional Chinese musical notation using Chinese characters to represent musical notes 四方声明 sì fāng shēng míng Quartet Statement 四方代表 sì fāng dài biǎo Quartet Representative 四方负责人 四方負責人 Quartet principals 群英 qún yīng assemblage of talented individuals / ensemble of heroes syn 合奏 hé zòu to perform music (as an ensemble) 细部 細部 xì bù small part (of a whole ensemble) / detail syn 集合体 集合體 jí hé tǐ aggregate / ensemble / bundle 系综 系綜 xì zōng (physics) ensemble 跳集体舞 跳集體舞 tiào jí tǐ wǔ to do ensemble dancing / to dance in a group 争取人权集体行动 Agir ensemble pour les droits de l'homme 正义社会大会 正義社會大會 Ensemble pour une Société Juste 唱片 chàng piàn gramophone record / LP / music CD / musical album / CL:張|张[zhang1] 节奏 節奏 jié zòu rhythm / tempo / musical pulse / cadence / beat syn 大作 dà zuò your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly syn 音箱 yīn xiāng loudspeaker box / speaker (audio equipment) / resonating chamber of a musical instrument / sound box syn 演奏 yǎn zòu to perform on a musical instrument syn 乐器 樂器 yuè qì musical instrument / CL:件[jian4] syn 原声 原聲 yuán shēng acoustic (musical instrument) 乐曲 樂曲 yuè qǔ musical composition syn 背景音乐 背景音樂 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) syn 音乐剧 音樂劇 yīn yuè jù (theater, cinema) a musical 弹奏 彈奏 tán zòu to play (musical instrument, esp. string) syn 基调 基調 jī diào main key (of a musical composition) / keynote (speech) 音调 音調 yīn diào pitch of voice (high or low) / pitch (of a musical note) / tone syn 进行曲 進行曲 jìn xíng qǔ march (musical) 乐谱 樂譜 yuè pǔ a musical score / sheet music 曲艺 曲藝 qǔ yì folk musical theater 三度 sān dù third (musical interval) 高亢 gāo kàng high-pitched and penetrating (musical instrument, voice etc) / high-spirited / fever-pitched (atmosphere) syn 调式 調式 diào shì (musical) mode 音乐之声 音樂之聲 yīn yuè zhī shēng The Sound of Music, Broadway musical (1959) and Academy Award-winning movie (1965) 乐音 樂音 yuè yīn musical note / tone syn 音阶 音階 yīn jiē musical scale 丝竹 絲竹 sī zhú traditional Chinese musical instruments / music 昆曲 崑曲 kūn qǔ Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times syn 走马灯 走馬燈 zǒu mǎ dēng lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节[Yuan2 xiao1 jie2] / (fig.) revolving door / musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs) 风琴 風琴 fēng qín pipe organ (musical instrument) 调音 調音 tiáo yīn to tune (a musical instrument) 扬琴 揚琴 yáng qín yangqin / dulcimer (hammered string musical instrument) syn 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 樂句 yuè jù musical phrase 金 jīn 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] syn 杂剧 雜劇 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 syn 谱子 譜子 pǔ zi musical score syn 关汉卿 關漢卿 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 shí rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 竖笛 豎笛 shù dí recorder (musical instrument) / (Tw) clarinet 总谱 總譜 zǒng pǔ musical score 土 tǔ earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] syn 音 yīn sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) syn 马致远 馬緻遠 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] 铃鼓 鈴鼓 líng gǔ tambourine (musical instrument) / bell and drum 追 duī to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old) syn 三角铁 三角鐵 sān jiǎo tiě triangle (musical instrument) / angle iron syn 尺 chě one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3] syn 弦 xián bow string / string of musical instrument / watchspring / chord (segment of curve) / hypotenuse / CL:根[gen1] syn 箫 簫 xiāo xiao, a Chinese musical instrument of ancient times, similar to panpipes syn 籁 籟 lài a sound / a noise / musical pipe with 3 reeds syn 镈 鎛 bó ancient musical intrument shaped as a bell / hoe / spade 絃 xián 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 嘂 jiào old variant of 叫[jiao4] / ancient musical instrument similar to ocarina 七和弦 qī hé xián seventh (musical cord) 七声 七聲 qī shēng tones of the musical scale 三音 sān yīn third (musical interval, e.g. do-mi) 三音度 sān yīn dù third (musical interval) 五度 wǔ dù five degrees / fifth (basic musical interval, doh to soh) 五音度 wǔ yīn dù fifth (musical interval) 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) 先期录音 先期錄音 xiān qī lù yīn (filmmaking) to prerecord a musical soundtrack to which actors will later synchronize their performance during filming 全度音 quán dù yīn whole tone (musical interval) 全音 quán yīn whole tone (musical interval) 八音盒 bā yīn hé musical box syn 喜歌剧院 喜歌劇院 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 增三和弦 zēng sān hé xián augmented triad (musical chord) 大三度 dà sān dù major third (musical interval) 大小三度 dà xiǎo sān dù major and minor third (musical interval) 小三度 xiǎo sān dù minor third (musical interval) 小技 xiǎo jì small skills / folk musical theater 击弦类 擊弦類 jī xián lèi hammered string type (of musical instrument) 击弦类乐器 擊弦類樂器 jī xián lèi yuè qì hammered string musical instrument 整声 整聲 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 琴書 qín shū traditional art form, consisting of sung story telling with musical accompaniment 白朴 白樸 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 編磬 biān qìng musical instrument consisting of a set of chime stones suspended from a beam and struck as a xylophone 舞台音乐 舞台音樂 wǔ tái yīn yuè musical theater 补足音程 補足音程 bǔ zú yīn chéng complementary interval / addition musical interval adding to an octave 谱表 譜表 pǔ biǎo musical stave 郑光祖 鄭光祖 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 陶笛 táo dí ocarina (musical instrument) 