Music for plucked instruments is music for an ensemble of various plucked instruments and is an integrated part of traditional Chinese (or China’s national) instrumental music. China is a country with 56 ethnic groups of which the ‘Han’ (known to the westerners as Mandarin) is dominating in population size. The Chinese plucked instrument world represents all ethnic groups living in China today?among which instruments like pipa (Chinese lute), ruan (a fourstringed instrument with a round sound box and fingerboard with frets), qin (a seven-stringed instrument with a flat oblong soundboard), gu zhen (Chinese zither with many strings (normally with 21 strings), san hsian (three-stringed instrument with a long fingerboard and a drum-shaped sound box at the fingerboard bottom), yang qin (Chinese cymbalo) and liu qin (Chinese mandolin).
01. Jolly Tune 6:02
02. Night Banquet 4:52
03. Street Musicians. Duet for Pipa and Sanxian 6:30
04. In the Still of Late Night 7:41
05. Tune from Jin Region 6:19
06. When Spring Visits South China. Duet for Pipa and Sanxian 5:34
07. Journey Beyond Xi Kou (Folksong from Shanxi) 4:27
08. Riddle Guessing (Folksong from Yunnan) 3:36
09. Camel Bell Ring Echoing Along the Silk Road 5:03
10. Xi. Trio for 3 Sets of Cymbals 4:13
11. Ambush on All Sides 7:29
12. Night in Moscow (Folksong from Russia) 3:21
13. Suite No. 1 from “Gayane”: I. Sabre Dance 2:32