Feng Yi Ting is an indoor opera created by composer Guo Wenjing in 2004. It, with the late Eastern Han Dynasty as background, takes the story of Diao Chan and Lu Bu as its main line. The opera is composed of a 15-member band, and narrates with the combination of traditional opera and modern music language. The employment of the band not only reflects the characteristics of Chinese and Western musical instruments, but also perfectly expresses the sound as the work requires. Therefore, the author of this paper focuses on the work’s band, and makes a brief exposition from the perspectives of band organization, structure layout, and the sound form of integration of Chinese and Western musical instruments.

Yu Weina. A Study of Chinese and Western Musical Instruments in Feng Yi Ting, Guo Wenjing. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 3: 111-121. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.050320.

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