Pipa
The pipa (Chinese: 琵琶; pinyin: pípá) is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments (弹拨乐器/彈撥樂器).
Books
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001).
Pipa Media
So del la Pipa
Musicians in a scene from paradise, Yulin Cave 25, Tang dynasty
Lute detail from a Tang dynasty painting on silk, 897 A.D.
Relief sculpture from Gandhara showing a lute being played by a musician (right), 1st–2nd century AD
Decorated back of a pipa from the Ming dynasty
A mural from the tomb of Xu Xianxiu in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, dated 571 CE during the Northern Qi dynasty, showing male court musicians playing the pipa and liuqin, and a woman playing a konghou
10th century tablature for pipa from Dunhuang Mogao Caves.
Scene from a Ming dynasty painting, Tao Gu Presents a Poem, c. 1515, by Tang Yin.
A page of music notation from the Li Collection by Li Fangyuan.
A Sui dynasty (581–618) terracotta pipa-player in a suit of armor
Other websites
- "Kishibe's diffusionism theory on the Iranian Barbat and Chino-Japanese Pi' Pa'," from The Shayda Institute-Iranian Classical Music site Archived 2008-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
- An article on the historical development of pipa
- The Pipa on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Pipa Performance by Gifted Musician in United States
