Contents Briefing

The Album incorporates over 300 hundred pictures and photos,including some rare kinds of gong,drum,nao,and bo as well as the vanished and vanishing scenes of the performance of these instruments.The musical relics showed in this book, corresponding to its historical records,both imperial and folk types,artistic and non-artistic fields,display the history and glamour of traditional Chinese gong and drum.

Author Profile

Qiao Jianzhong, former head of the China Art research institute music research department, supervisor of music Ph.D candidates.