Study The Dulcimer Art History Of The Development In Beijing

Yangqin (Dulcimer) is an instrument that originates from the Middle East and Persia. It has a trapeziform box with many strings but without a keyboard which are played with hammers. During the 1573 to 1619 of dynasty Ming, dulcimer was widespread in China from Persia by sea, in the area of Guangdong originally, following the close contact with West Asia and East Africa. Nowadays, Yangqin has developed to be one of the three systems of dulcimer in the world after 400 years. It is called "piano in China" in traditional instruments of China. After 1950s it has been rapidly expanded. Mr. Jingming Yang, who was one of the members in the Center Broadcasting Traditional Instruments Orchestra, began to reform traditional Yangqin in 1959. It brought about a great advance to the undertaking of Yangqin for Beijing even China. The reformation on the basis of traditional Yangqin promoted directly the works and skills of Yangqin. The education in the China Music College and the Center Music college have been on behalf of the highest level of Yangqin specialized course in Beijing and China. As the center of politics and culture, it can say that the development of Yangqin in Beijing is the center of China. As the birthplace of modem Yangqin, Beijing represents the style of Yangqin art in China. The history of Yangqin's development in Beijing is the epitome which in China.In recent years, it was converged lots of qualified personnel in Yangqin from China in Beijing. Following the education in Yangqin entered a stage of standardization, it has emerged many performers majored in Yangqin in Beijing. On March 7, 1982, Yangqin Research Institute was set up in Beijing by Performance Committee of China Musician Association. After Improvement Opening, international cultural exchange has been growing more widespread and performers of Yangqin often go to visit abroad. In October 2005, The 8^th Yangqin World Congress was convened in Beijing which advanced the expansion in yangqin. However, it has been many problems not to be ignored, for example the research in terms of theory about the artistic characteristics of Yangqin, especially about the evolution of Yangqin's history, is backward relatively, comparing the development in performance. It has been paying more attention to skill than theoretical research. Something should be done to perfect it and take further steps to establish the theory of Yangqin art with China distinguished feature as a system.Up till now, it has made a marked systematic study about developing theory of Yangqin art in some articles: 《Form Dulcimer to Yangqin》 (Yanfang Zhao), 《The History And Future of Yangqin》 ( Zuhua Xiang), 《Discuss The Development of Yangqin》 (Xiaobin Xie), etc. In my article, I try to make a new breakthrough in the study of Yangqin art in Beijing by absorbing the achievement that some people studied and combining the factors of politics and history in Beijing with the characteristic of performance, education, scientific research, creation and manufacture and so on in each period. It narrates the developing course of Yangqin in Beijing from the end of dynasty Ming and early in dynasty Qing to date. And it want to afford some material for reference to the development and perfection in the theory of Yangqin in Beijing even China and to the abundance in history of music by trying to analyse and sum up the features, superiorities and problems of Beijing's Yangqin under the world situation on the basis of summarizing the history of yangqin in Beijing.