Volume 27 no. 4
2004Become a Member Now!
PERFORMING ARTS AND MUSICIANS64 Three Generations of Chinese Dance Composers:
Chen Tianhe Luo Zhongrong Liu Wenjin “Lotus Dance” first toured Paris in 1955. The dance composer was Chen Tianhe. This was the first female group dance presentation by China in Europe. Things were different in the 20th Century. Large-scale efforts in collecting folk and classical dances took place beginning in the 1950s. Professional choreographers and professional composers joined hands to produce some of the most colorful productions. Shen Sin yanKeywords: Dance Music, Musicians, Chinese Music, Compositions, 20th Century, 21st Century
NEW BOOKS79 Ritual Music in a North China Village: The Continuing Confucian and Buddhist Heritage by Du Yaxiong
What is “Jing Music”? What is ShengGuan Music. In 1951, a group of young musicians from Beixinzhuang orgainized a music club, and started to learn specifically “Jing Music”, from a monk in the village. Du Yaxiong followed the activities of the music club for some two decades. . .Keywords: Beixinzhuang, Jing Music, Guanzi, Yunluo, Chinese Music, Shengguan Music, Confucian, Buddhist Music
COMPOSERS67 Zhou Long and the Future of Chinese Music: An Interview with Commentary
What is the best way to relate the sounds I love in my native culture to the music made elsewhere in the world? Can they help each other? Will joining them create a vibrant new idiom? Or would that be a mistake, resulting in a compromise which only weakens the integrity of each musical language? A dialogue between two composers, both of whom are involved with the interaction of Western and Chinese music. Edward GreenKeywords: Music of the world, Chinese Music, Music Education, Nature, Compositions, New Music, 21st Century
COVER ART60
From "Hong Xian Steals the Box" to "House of Flying Daggers" (2004). Both are Transmission of the Strange (chuanqi)
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & MUSICIANS78 Erhu Master Zhang Shao and Erhu Strings
The most popular silk musical instrument is the erhu. Zhang Shao invented metallic alloy strings for the erhu. He further invented chromium alloy strings for the erhu, and Erquan strings and Hangong strings for the tuoyin erhu (supporting erhu south of the Yangzi River). Su XiaoKeywords: Musical Instruments, Erhu, Music Recording, Erhu Strings, Tuoyin Erhu Strings, Chinese Music, Chinese Orchestra, Musicians, 20th Century, 21st Century, Music Education
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