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As a package that hits the high points of the various Chinese instruments and instrumental styles, Rhymoi Music's Chinese Virtuoso Instrumental Music is definitely a strong recommend. - All Music Guide. Throughout a rich five thousand year history, China has developed a highly sophisticated musical culture. The classics of ancient Chinese music not only call for instrumental virtuosity but also rely upon the musician's skill in bringing to life the rich extra-musical representations and imagery. Ancient Chinese music is, in the truest sense, a poem in musical tones, drawing inspiration from the subtle and allusive language of classical Chinese poetry and painting to shape each unique musical performance. The abstract musical forms of the Western classical tradition - such as the sonata and symphony - are alien to Chinese musical thinking, where the aesthetic focus was always to provide a mental image in sound of a place, or time or person.