Music in the Zhou Dynasty, Part 1 - MUSIC IN HISTORY #3

China has a long and rich history of music spanning over 3000 years, so today we are looking at the beginnings of that music history as we look at the music of the Zhou Dynasty.

Sources:
1. Furniss, Ingrid. Unearthing China’s Informal Musicians: An Archeological and Textual Study of the Shang to Tang Periods. Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 41 (2009).
2. Ancient History Encyclopedia (“China Timeline”; “Zhou Dynasty”; “Warring States Period”) (Online source)
3. The Sacred Books of Confucius
4. Harvard Dictionary of Music
5. Grove Dictionary of Music
6. Three Aspects of Music in Ancient Greece and China, by Mary T. Guerrant (JSTOR)
7. The Ethical Turn in Aesthetic Education: Early Chinese Thinkers on Music and Arts, Ming Dong Gu (2016)
8. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Vol. 7, East Asia (China)