Nanguan music

Nanguan music
Nanguan music
Chinese	南管
Literal meaning	southern pipes
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánguǎn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lâm-kóan
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese	南音
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nányīn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lâm-im
Second alternative Chinese name
Chinese	南樂
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	nanyue
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lâm-ga̍k
Third alternative Chinese name
Chinese	南曲
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Nánqǔ
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lâm-khiok

Nanguan (Chinese: 南管; pinyin: Nánguǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-kóan; lit. 'southern pipes'; also nanyin, nanyue, xianguan, or nanqu) is a style of Chinese classical music from the southern Chinese province of Fujian.^[1] It is also popular in Taiwan, particularly Lukang on west coast, as well as among Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.^[2]

Fujian is a mountainous coastal province of China. Its provincial capital is Fuzhou, while Quanzhou was a major port in the 7th century CE, the period between the Sui and Tang eras. Situated upon an important maritime trade route, it was a conduit for elements of distant cultures. The result was what is now known as nanguan music, which today preserves many archaic features.

It is a genre strongly associated with male-only community amateur musical associations (quguan or "song-clubs"), each formerly generally linked to a particular temple, and is viewed as a polite accomplishment and a worthy social service, distinct from the world of professional entertainers.^[2] It is typically slow, gentle, delicate and melodic, heterophonic and employing four basic scales.^[3]

Nanguan was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.^[4]

^ Thrasher, Alan Robert (2008). Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China: Ethos, Theory and Practice. Brill. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-9004165007.
^ ^a ^b Wang, Ying-Fen (September 2003). "Amateur Music Clubs and State Intervention: The Case of Nanguan Music in Postwar Taiwan" (PDF). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (141). Retrieved January 2, 2014.
^ Wang, Xinxin. "Nanguan Music: Appreciation and Practice (course description)". Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010.
^ "Nanyin". UNESCO.

[thrasher-1] Thrasher, Alan Robert (2008). Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China: Ethos, Theory and Practice. Brill. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-9004165007.

[wang-2] Wang, Ying-Fen (September 2003). "Amateur Music Clubs and State Intervention: The Case of Nanguan Music in Postwar Taiwan" (PDF). Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (141). Retrieved January 2, 2014.

[3] Wang, Xinxin. "Nanguan Music: Appreciation and Practice (course description)". Graduate Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan University. Archived from the original on January 19, 2010.

[4] "Nanyin". UNESCO.

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