Classic Pipa Textbook: Lin Shicheng's Thirty Pipa Lessons (Traditional Chinese New Edition)

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Author: Lin Shicheng
The sixth-generation lineage master of the Pudong School of pipa. Born in Nanhui, Jiangsu, in 1922; died in 2005. A founding figure of modern Chinese national music education, he was an outstanding national-music educator and theorist, and a renowned pipa performer, arranger, and composer. He served as a senior professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, a member of the Performing Arts Committee and the National Music Committee of the Chinese Musicians Association, and president of the Pipa Research Society. Born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, he was immersed in the folk music of the Jiangnan region from childhood. At the age of six he began studying pipa, erhu, and sanxian with his father, and by twelve he had committed to heart and could sing from memory the eight great traditional pieces of Jiangnan sizhu (silk-and-bamboo) music. Under the guidance of Shen Haochu, a master of the Pudong School pipa lineage, and through his own diligent study, he carried on the Pudong School and became its sole lineage heir.

He authored more than twenty books and scores, including The Pipa Teaching Method, Pipa Etudes, The Pipa Performance M...

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