Chinese Music Dictionary (Revised Edition) contains 6221 entries, including studies of the History of Ancient Chinese Music, Contemporary Chinese History and Music, Traditional Chinese Music (music of the Chinese ethnic minorities), aesthetics of Chinese music. The contained entries include temperament, composition, performing terms, music types, institution and society, functional governing, organization, books and periodicals, people, works, song and dance music, folk instrumental music, terms of the Traditional Chinese Theatre Music and opera music. Contemporary music theorists, composers, conductors, singers, music educationists, opera musicians, music publishers are included. Important contemporary Chinese Music works, books, periodicals, music organizations, institutions, schools, and music events are also collected.