Zhou Sen walked in and looked up to admire.

It is really similar to the Russian church, the exterior design is very exquisite, all with bright colors, with orange as the main color, European-style round arches, triangular roofs, like building blocks, and the top is a long spire, which stands tall and looks magnificent.

Walking in, it is more familiar, the layout inside is really similar to many churches in Russia, it is also a large crystal chandelier, a number of oil paintings hanging on the wall, with gold as the main color, it looks very gorgeous, the floor is made of marble, there are also mahogany floors, or laid with a red carpet, showing dignity.

The square in front of the church is always crowded with many pigeons, and visitors can squat down, feed the pigeons, and watch the pigeons walk around, which is very leisurely and cute, and the tourists are smiling happily.

Teacher Xu Changming took everyone to the National Musical Instrument Museum of Kazakhstan, the National Musical Instrument Museum of Kazakhstan is located in Almaty, an antique building on the east side of Panfilov Park, or orange as the main color, the roof above is matched with green, and the long spire is particularly eye-catching.

Teacher Xu Changming introduced to Zhou Sen: "The Museum of National Musical Instruments of Kazakhstan was built in 1908 and has been preserved until now, and was once a club of officers of the House of Representatives, which was founded in 1908 and was listed in the list of important national sites of Kazakhstan in 1982, and then became a museum for collecting and exhibiting national musical instruments of Kazakhstan. ”

Zhou Sen followed Xu Changming and walked in, feeling fresh when he saw everything.

"This museum of national musical instruments is really good!"

"Yes!" Xu Changming said, "many tourists come to visit, this is a must-see attraction, the Kazakhstan National Musical Instrument Museum is known as one of the world's famous musical instrument museums, with a collection of various ethnic musical instruments from various regions of Kazakhstan, and many musical instruments from all over the world." ”

The museum has a collection of 53 musical instruments used by famous poets and musicians such as Abai and Zhambyl. ”

Zhou Sen watched as he walked.

"There are a lot of musical instruments!"

"Yes, there are playing instruments, playing instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments in the museum, and there are a large number of them in the museum, which is especially fond of Dongbula, and there are about 13 kinds of collection in the museum, which is dizzying. ”

"Mr. Xu, I found that Mongolians and Russians also like dombra, and I often watch them play this instrument when I interview, can you tell us about this instrument?"

Xu Changming nodded, "Dongbula is a traditional plucked musical instrument of the Kazakh ethnic group in North and Central Asia, and it is especially popular among the Kazakh and Oroqen ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Siberian region of Russia, Xinjiang in China, and the Daxinganling region in northeast China. ”

"Its amps are made of pine or birch, flat or scoop-shaped, with an elongated stem with 8-10 frets on it, two silk strings or steel strings, which produce harmony of three to octaves. ”

"This kind of instrument is different from other musical instruments, it has national characteristics, the volume of Dongbula is not large, but the timbre is beautiful, the basic method of playing is to play and pick, generally play for rebeat, pick for tap. ”

"Using different performance techniques of Dongbula, you can vividly express the murmuring spring water on the grassland, the crisp birdsong, the jubilant sheep and the hooves of the horses, etc., the sound of Dongbula is very recognizable, and immediately reminds you of the horses galloping on the grassland and the herds of cattle and sheep, the vast grassland is endless, and people are singing and dancing. ”

This kind of musical instrument is handed down by the ancestors of the Kazakh people, after years of precipitation, passed down from generation to generation, Dongbula playing and singing is the favorite art performance form of the Kazakh people, the singer can be used to play and sing, can also be used for solo or instrumental ensemble, the expressiveness is very rich, and it is light, easy to carry, not as heavy as the piano, can not move, suitable for the nomadic life of the steppe migration, so it is deeply loved by people. ”

"The art of dombula has gone through the accumulation of history, and is mainly composed of five parts: playing and singing music, music, folk dance music, performance methods and techniques, musical instruments and production techniques. ”

However, with the acceleration of urbanization and industrialization, various popular cultures have swept the grasslands, which has violently impacted the art of dombula in national culture, and some traditional repertoire and production techniques have been on the verge of being lost. ”

"Because this art form has been circulated among the people for a long time, so it has not been systematically organized and protected, so the Musical Instrument Museum collects this kind of dongbula and displays it as a kind of grassland culture to tourists from all over the world. ”

"We in China have also launched a project to protect intangible cultural heritage, and we hope that this ancient sound will continue to be passed on. ”

In addition to Kazakhstan's own folk instruments, the museum also has a collection of folk instruments from many other countries around the world, including the Chinese folk instruments erhu and pipa. ”

Speaking of China's national musical instruments, the erhu and pipa, Zhou Sen was happy.

"I didn't expect to display our country's national musical instruments in a foreign musical instrument museum!"

"Yes, my country's national musical instruments, the erhu and pipa are also very famous, and music has no borders. Xu Changming said.

Zhou Sen said: "When it comes to the erhu, I still know a little bit, the erhu began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years, it is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, and China has also trained many erhu players, and there are many hand-me-downs. For example, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", "Good Night", "Listening to the Song", "Bird Song of the Empty Mountain", "Cold Spring Wind Song", "Moonlit Night", "Flowing Wave Song", "Song in the Sick", "Three Treasures Buddha", and "Bright Travel" are all treasures of traditional Chinese music. ”

In particular, "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" is a rare masterpiece of Chinese folk instrumental music, which not only introduces people into the artistic conception of quiet people at night and cold moons at home, but also looks like seeing people after listening to the whole song, a blind artist who is upright and tenacious is pouring out his bumpy life to people. ”

"We Chinese are familiar with the tune of this piece, and it still sounds very meaningful. ”

"Speaking of pipa, as a Chinese, it is even more familiar, pipa is the main plucked instrument with a long history in China, after the improvement of generations of players, so far the shape has tended to be unified, becoming a six-phase 24-product four-string pipa, pipa has a wide range, the performance technique is the first of national instrumental music, and the expressiveness is the most abundant instrument in folk music. ”

"The sound of the pipa is very special, its overtones are in the first place in all kinds of musical instruments in ancient and modern China and abroad, not only the volume is large, but also the sound quality is crisp and bright, at the same time, the fundamental tone of the pipa is accompanied by rich overtones, this overtone can make the sound of the piano attenuated in the propagation, with a strong penetrating power, when playing in a calm open place, the sound of the piano when playing a heavy accent with it can be transmitted to a very distant place. ”

The representative repertoire of pipa includes: "Plugged Song", "Ambush on All Sides", "Overlord Unloads Armor", "Big Waves Wash the Sand", "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", "Yangchun White Snow", "Little Sisters of the Prairie", "Haiqing Takes the Swan", "Yi Dance", "Torch Festival Night" and so on. ”

"I think our Chinese folk music instruments are also very distinctive, music has no borders, artistically musicians from the two countries can also communicate with each other, and artists can also perform across borders. ”

"Yes, Zhou Sen, you're right, Kazakh musicians have also taken Dongbula to perform in China, and Chinese musicians have also come to Kazakhstan to perform, and interconnection is not only reflected in policy communication, road connectivity, unimpeded trade, and currency circulation, but also in promoting cultural exchanges and developing tourism. ”

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