The top ten famous suona songs are "Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix", "One Flower", "Suona Song", "Carrying the Sedan Chair", "Celebrating the Harvest", "Wedding Song", "Yellow Earth Love", "Resident Cloud Flying", "River Water", "Golden Snake Dance".
The suona is one of China's national wind instruments, and has played a very important role in China's music history. This instrument is a great reflection of our culture, and it plays a very nice tune, including some famous songs.
Introduction of Suona
Suona is one of the national wind instruments in China, and is also a folk musical instrument that has been widely circulated throughout China.
The suona has a bright, loud tone and a wooden, conical body, with a brass tube with a whistle at the upper end, and a brass trumpet mouthpiece (called a bowl) attached to the lower end, hence its common name, the trumpet. In Taiwan, it is known as the drum blow; in Guangdong, it is also known as the tic-tac, which is one of the "eight tones" of Guangdong.
The suona is a high-pitched, loud and clear sounding instrument, which has been used in the past in folk songs, rice-planting songs, drumming classes, and the accompaniment of local music and operas. After continuous development, rich playing skills, improve the expressive power, has become a solo instrument with characteristics, and used for national band ensemble or opera, song and dance accompaniment.