Zither Playing Traditional Rhyme Techniques For Performance And Contemporary Use

Zither is one of the oldest plucked string instruments in our country. It has been forming a unique national"flavor"in two thousand years of development. In zither's playing, rhyme skills of "chanting, kneading, pressing, sliding" of the left hand are where the rhythm of the zither music is, and have the unique aesthetic feature. In the rapid development of zither, traditional rhyme skills of the left hand promote an unprecedented development, while they are also at a gradual loss in varying degrees. The contemporary music composition and playing of zither should make advanced development on the basis of the traditions. More stable and advanced of the skills of the left hand are, stronger of the national"flavor"of the zither playing is. And thus we could make zither art a well-deserved wonderful work for the Chinese-nation instrumental music. This paper sort out and made research in depth in rhyme skills in the traditional and contemporary performance of the zither playing in the hope that it would play with a certain degree of practical significance to contemporary music composition and playing of zither.