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    For the things we enjoy thanks to our Shaolin Arts...

  • #2
    Dance of Joy and Happiness

    For those who enjoy piano music (even when it’s simple):

    Emilie Lin has arranged Asian folks songs for late beginner to early intermediate piano. Published as Sheet Music Book ‘Gifts of Asia’ (The FJH Music Company).



    Dance of Joy and Happiness is an arrangement of a folk song from Taiwan:

    To get the score for this piece which can be shipped worldwide, click http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Gifts-of-Asia/19520058?aff_id=447801For more public...


    It’s fun to play and reminded me of Sitaigung’s poem (from ‚Silliest question thread‘):

    Sing to me a song of life and joy
    Open your heart to smile
    A smile that’s brighter than the sun
    Ha-ha ha-ha and then
    Drinking and laughing can only be fun

    Here another of Emilie Lin’s arrangements, Chinese Folksong ‘Boat of Tai Lake’:

    To get the score for this piece which can be shipped worldwide, click http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Gifts-of-Asia/19520058?aff_id=447801For more public...


    Enjoy, Thank you,
    With Shaolin Salute

    Michael

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    • #3
      Indian Raga on piano with tabla

      Utsav Lal on piano and Sandip Bhattacharya on tabla playing a Rage from India:
      Utsav Lal is one of the most creative pianists and composers of ragas. Here he at MERU Concert he plays a beautiful raga composition in Shuddh Sarang on pian...


      May you enjoy, that's a refreshing fragrance in piano Music.

      With Shaolin Salute,
      Michael

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      • #4
        Raga to Reel – India to Ireland (& back again)

        Utsav Lal on Piano and Sam Comerford on Flute – live in Goa 2014:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbTJaXi3xdQ


        Description from YouTube:

        "Ragas to Reels" India Tour brought a confluence of the rich musical traditions of India & Ireland. From the soulful sounds of the Indian Ragas to the pounding energy of Irish Reels, the artists-Utsav Lal (India) on piano & Sam Comerford (Ireland) on Irish flute present a melodious crossover.

        A centerpiece of the cultural celebrations of the 50th anniversary year of the presence of the Embassy of Ireland in India, the concerts were held in the cities of Bangalore, Goa, Delhi & Mumbai.
        This Piece is an excerpt from the performance at Royal Orchid Resort, Goa on April 02,2014

        For those who may enjoy it.

        With Shaolin Salute
        Michael

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        • #5
          ‘Chinese’ Xinjiang Uyghur Folk-Pop Song

          That’s flavour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wnrLbmZx-E

          Let’s Dance,

          Michael

          …you thought it may sound more as coming from Turkey than China?

          …and the ‘problem’ with this song is at least for me, I can’t stop listening it over and over and over again…

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          • #6
            Classical: Music from Shi Fu

            Shi Fu (1929-2007) was a Chinese Composer of Classical Music.
             
            He composed Symphonies, symphonic poems, Concerts for Violin, Violoncello, Trumpet and Guitar as well as Art Songs, Folk Songs and Dances, ballet music and piano music.
             
            After graduating from Central China Secondary Art School, Hunan, in 1949 he joined the Chinese People’s Army where he started his artistic work while in the Xinjiang armed forces.
             
            In Xinjiang, in the North-West of China, with a population consisting mostly out of minority groups, he collected over 2000 traditional folk songs.
             
            From 1959 on he studied music in the composition department of the Central Conservatory with Du Mingxin.
             
            He began his composer career with organizations such as the Xian Conservatory, the Central Opera House and the National Ballet of China.
             
            His compositions, full of national flavor, overfilled with the etiquette of the West part of the country, demonstrated the clear character of the composer. Colorful life goes together with lively dances…His piano works expressed the infinite life of the people. He is a piano composer creating his works from the people, in praise of the harmony and beauty of human character, happiness and hope of human life. All the above indicates that Shi Fu is characteristic and different from other composers.’
             
            (Prof. Sang Tong in ‘Shi Fu – Selected Works for the Piano’ – Series of Piano Works of Famous Chinese Composers, Shanghai Music Publishing House, 2012/2013)
             
            Here are some excerpts on YouTube of his piano works ‘Xinjiang Suites No. 1-3’, recorded by Chinese-American Pianist, Gulimina Mahamuti.
             
            Gulimina Mahamuti, born 1969, was a Student of Shi Fu and the first Uyghur to receive a PhD in Music in China.
             
            Tarim Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJoNLnPnXM
             
            Kashgar Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybg8_I5e3zs
             
            Tajik Drum Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybg8_I5e3zs
             
            Silk Headscarf Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFa5iuAz5oY
             
            May you enjoy,
             
            With Shaolin Salute,
             
            Michael

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            • #7
              The caves of a thousand buddhas

              Arken Abdulla from Xingjiang, Western China:

              The caves of a thousand buddhas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4HN-1haUvY

              With Shaolin Salute.
              Michael
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              Last edited by MichaelS; 22 March 2017, 10:02 PM. Reason: typo

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              • #8
                Yangguan Pass

                The caves of a thousand buddhas after founding monk Yuezun's vision in 366 of 'golden radiance in the form of thousand buddhas' is a Buddhist cave temple site in Dunhuang, Gansu Province.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Thousand_Buddha_Caves

                It's on the way to the Yangguan pass.'Yangguan is associated with sad parting in Chinese literature as it was the last stop for Chinese travellers leaving China to the Western Regions. In a famous poem, "Seeing Yuaner off on a Mission to Anxi", the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Weio wrote:

                The morning rain of Weicheng dampens the light dust,
                The guest house is green with the colour of fresh willows.
                Let's finish another cup of wine, my dear sir,
                Out west past the Yangguan, old friends there'll be none.'

                'Wang Wei's poem inspired one of China's best-known musical pieces, the "Three Variations of Yangguan" which existed as early as the Tang Dynasty. The song became a classic farewell song sung down the centuries...'
                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Pass

                Here is a piano version by Zhou Guangren, theme dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907):
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYnSMTcAOcI
                Last edited by MichaelS; 23 March 2017, 01:14 PM. Reason: typo/formatting

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                • #9
                  Shi Fu - Chinese Folk Song Collector and Composer

                  errata:

                  Pianist Gulimina Mahamuti was born 1978, not 1969, she was the first Chinese Uyghur to receive a PhD in Music from the US (not in China).
                  One link from the post about Chinese classical composer Shi Fu was wrong:


                  Tajik Drum Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJm3XEBsYc


                  Here another excerpt...
                  Little Player/instrumentalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDKVdMtzq90


                  This piece from Xinjiang suite No. 3 (for children) imitates the perfoming style of the musical instrument called 'tanbur'.


                  Here a video of a young tanbur player - supposedly Uyghur - I've found on YouTube as an illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUCE6HFZ0HA



                  Shi Fu collected 2000 Folk Songs in the 1950s in Xinjiang Province of China. How did it look like being a folk song collector in Xinhjiang? Quite good, looks like fun...


                  Pictures taken from 'The Xinjiang Piano Suites of Shi Fu' - D.M.A. Document by Sally Liew Sansbury, B.M., M.A., free download from Ohio State University:



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                  • #10
                    1934: First Chinese Piano Piece with Western recognition

                    In 1934 Chinese composer He Luting (1903-1999) won a competition in Shanghai with his piano piece 'Shepherd's Piccolo' aka 'Cowherd's Flute'. This contest was sponsored and judged by Russian composer Alexander Tscherepnin.

                    He Luting's 'Shepherd's Piccolo' aka 'Cowherd's Flute' from 1934 is generally seen as the first Chinese Piano Piece known to the West. It was performed and appreciated still mostly in China itself and inspired a new generation of Chinese music enthusiasts.

                    The Piano came relatively late to China and chinese composers writing piano works is not a 100 years old.

                    Here the 'Cowherd's Flute' played by young Yuja Wang on piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkoO-IOsaPE

                    Here an account around the 'Shepherd's Piccolo' with details about Chinese composer Shi Fu (1929-2007) and the circumstances of piano playing around 1950 in central and western China:

                    'Talking about the relationship between the piano and Shi Fu, I could not help recalling the days sixty years ago. In autumn 1948, I entered the Secondary Art School of Central China in Changsha, there for the first time I heard the most beautiful piano music played and it was Huo Luting's Shepherd's Piccolo played by Shi Fu.

                    There was only one shabby piano then in the school and whoever came first would have the privilege to use it first. And Guo Shixian (his name in that school) was always the first one. According to old schoolmates, in the cold winter mornings, he used to sit at the door in quilts waiting for the door to open. He was the first to get in as soon as it was open. It was well known that Shi Fu was hard practicing the piano. An there thus we started our love. Maybe piano music Shepherd's Piccolo has been the matchmaker.

                    In 1950, both of us joined the People's Liberation Army and were assigned to Xingjiang where he was soon attracted by the ocean of music of the piece of land and determined to study Xinjiang music. The difficulty was there was no piano in the whole city of Urumuqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Later, Shi Fu found out that in the local Sino-Soviet Friendship Association an old piano stood idle.'

                    Peng Yufei, Chinese classical composer Shi Fu's widow in the postscript of 'Shi Fu - Selected Works for the Piano, SMPH 2012/13.

                    Best regards,
                    Michael
                    Last edited by MichaelS; 17 April 2017, 04:36 PM. Reason: typo

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                    • #11
                      Favourite Uyghur Music - mostly Xinjiang, China

                      Sometimes music on YouTube comes to you, and you listen to it, and you like and love it...

                      Sherizade - Oynasun
                      Folk-Pop-Dance Music...
                      Uyghur karaoke Shahrizoda sings Oynasin uygur song with captions and Turkish subtitlesSharizoda - şehrizāde is an Uyghur group living in Uzbekistan. Oynasin...


                      Oynasun (Let 'em dance)

                      Friends, let's dance
                      Leave no one out!
                      If anyone likes somebody,
                      leave them be - let 'em dance.

                      Let 'em dance, twisting to one side,
                      Let 'em dance, twisting to the other side!
                      Let 'em dance, twangled in their hair
                      Tossing out their ribbons!


                      Song 'Tarim' (don't know the band name)

                      Nice folk-pop/rock ballad

                      Song 'Izlidim' (same band, don't know the name)
                      Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

                      Strong Folk-Rock ballad


                      Mihrigul Hesen et all - Qara Qara Qaghlar (Black Crows)
                      Folk ballad - nice carpets, beautiful music and enchanting musicians
                      Uyghur folk song by Mihrigul Hasan.Instruments played from left to right:Dap (artist in pink dress), Dutar (...white.), Khushtar (...green.), Ghijäk (...blac...


                      I slid down from high mountains for you
                      I bend toward you like a rose bud
                      Wheter you know it or not, I fell in love with you
                      If burn to death from love, it would be owed to you
                      Black crows flew off separately
                      and landed on the indus-trees' branches in our courtyard
                      Others have their love by their side talking to each other every day
                      But my love is far away from my side
                      My love I've been missing you, ah my love
                      I wish I was with you, my love
                      Life is short, ah my love
                      Should I have to undergo this suffering, ah my love


                      Arken Abdullah

                      Dirak Bostan - deep strong ballad:


                      Balangzai - with dancer/actress Tong Liya
                      Dance music, sounds like 80% Gypsi Kings and 20% Latin - absolutely unbelievable...Chinese?!



                      Song 'Lliyar' (don't know band name)
                      Traditional folk song, evocative ballad, magnificient landscape pictures of Xinjiang
                      Beautiful landscape from xinjiang of China with fantastic uighur traditional song. Dedicated for Chinese Uyghur cultures and arts.



                      With Shaolin Salute,
                      Michael

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                      • #12
                        maybe Best Known Chinese Composer, Piano Piece, Pianist

                        a) Who is today the best known Chinese composer (of classical music)?


                        b) What is the best known Chinese piano Piece/work?


                        c) Who's the best known Chinese pianist?


                        Maybe there's no definitive answer, but it may really be the following:


                        a) Tan Dun, *1957


                        One of only 30 selected students who could study music in Bejing after the cultural revolution (out of thousands of applicants) from 1978 onwards. Since the 1980's he's living in New York. http://tandun.com/about/



                        b) Tan Dun's 'Eight Memories in Watercolour' op. 1 (1978, revised edition 2003)



                        Tan Dun wrote this piano work 1978 after he moved from Hunan to Beijing to study music. Feeling homesick he was longing for the folksongs and memories from his childhood. http://tandun.com/composition/eight-memories-in-watercolor/



                        c) Lang Lang, *1982


                        Well, anybody knows Lang Lang who listens to piano music...


                        Here the YouTube links to


                        Tan Dun, Eight Memories in Watercolour


                        Lang Lang, piano


                        Op. 1, No. 1-4
                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jd8px4WLSk
                        0:00 Missing Moon
                        2:59 Staccato Beans
                        4:17 Herdboy's Song
                        5:57 Blue Nun



                        Op. 1, No. 5-8
                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVK8TBZxmo0
                        0:00 Red Wilderness
                        1:50 Ancient Burial
                        4:37 Floating Clouds
                        6:18 Sunrain
                         
                        Best regards,
                        Michael

                        Last edited by MichaelS; 27 April 2017, 06:22 PM. Reason: typo, formattig to difficult...

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                        • #13
                          epilogue: eight memories in watercolor

                          Where on the side of the audience and media it's many times about fame, status, superlatives there it can be about something like 'intrinsic quality' at the same time from other's perspectives:


                          Composer Tan Dun writes in the preface to the published revised edition of his op. 1 'Eight Memories in Watercolor' (G. Schirmer, Inc. 2003/1/2004):


                          'It was on a New Year's Eve, that we met. New Years bells had just finished ringing when friends asked Lang Lang to play...Everyone was mesmerized by his performance. I was actually speechless for a long while, but nobody knew why. I was very touched, and couldn't really believe my ears. Lang Lang had played 'Floating Clouds', one of my first piano pieces written more than twenty years ago (four years before his birth). Lang Lang's interpretation was as pure as water...I heard the voice inside of me in his playing; I could smell the earth of my homeland. It is a real gift when a musician can play a piece that inspires me to think about where I came from, where I am going. Lang Lang is a poet and has magical powers: he could tell an unending story. In his storytelling, I hear the voice of the human soul and the silence of nature...'
                          Last edited by MichaelS; 28 April 2017, 12:09 PM. Reason: typo

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                          • #14
                            Favourite Taiwan Indigenous Music

                            Out of the 'YouTube Universe', but cannot read the chinese descriptions...so don't know the band and song names....a-d)


                            a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRc10A2qrxY
                            b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNxUAwzli4
                            same song, different versions, very beautifil evocative song


                            c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVC2Ex_JKaQ
                            d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYc63J0_Skg
                            same musicians, this is fun at heart, in d= audience joining


                            e) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROdVAV1zQo
                            Difang: Elder's Drinking Song
                            f) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f56lELufeQE
                            Enigma: Return to Innocence
                            g) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rucA0wQ1QfY
                            Music: Edmund Leung

                            e) is the original that Enigma sampled in their hit single f) return to innocence.

                            The Amis people, indigenous people of Taiwan are Melanesians and speak Austronesian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amis_people


                            Kind regards,
                            Michael

                            Last edited by MichaelS; 20 May 2017, 11:39 PM. Reason: typo

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                            • #15
                              discontinued

                              'We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance, we sang a lament, but you did not mourn'. Matthew 11:17

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