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shibu ji

Chinese music
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  • Chinese music: 12 pitches of the lü
    Chinese music
    / Thriving of foreign styles

    …the 10 performing divisions, or shibu ji. Of these divisions, one represented instrumentalists from Samarkand, whereas another group came from farther west in Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Kashgar, at the mountain pass between the east and the west, sent yet a different group. Musical ensembles were also presented to the…

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    …the 10 performing divisions, or shibu ji. Of these divisions, one represented instrumentalists from Samarkand, whereas another group came from farther west in Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan). Kashgar, at the mountain pass between the east and the west, sent yet a different group. Musical ensembles were also presented to the…

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