Briefly define including an example of music for each, the qin, erhu and socialist realist style for piano
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• The qin (also called guqin) is a seven-stringed zither with the strings stretched over the top of a rectangular resonator chamber. The strings may be plucked, or strummed either singularly or in combination. Three Variations on Yang Pass is a solo piece for qin.
• The erhu is a two-stringed (bowed) fiddle; musicians such as Liu Tianhua have adopted Western-style musical features (e.g., vibrato, minor key, compound meter) to solos for the instrument. An example of this style is Liu Tianhua's erhu solo Festival Night Canzonetta.
• Some Chinese piano music illustrates the socialist realist style that predominated in China from the 1940s to the early 1990s. Under this style music was supposed to be accessible to normal people and exploit themes of a communist society. An example of this style is Liao Shengjing's The Joyous Festival of Lunar New Year's Day, which presents simple music with the stated program of "village people enjoying a festive atmosphere."
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