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  • #16
    Dear Michael Sijat,

    Thank you for effort on this lovely thread. I have been enjoying the pieces you linked and the additional information you wrote for them. Currently my knowledge of non-Western classical compositional styles and Chinese music in general is very thin, so I have especially appreciated that I could learn more.

    With sincere gratitude,
    Olli

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    • #17
      Late Harvest

      ...from the 'backlog'...

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      • #18
        Yue Fei and the West Lake in China under Autumn Moon

        For those who do enjoy it:

         
        Lang Lang on piano playing 'Autumn Moon over calm Lake': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZSkrCAJAY
         
        This is the piano version by Chen Peixun, (in China well known) Chinese Composer, of a Chinese Folk Song from the 1930s by Lü Wencheng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Moon_Over_the_Calm_Lake
         
        The 'calm lake' is the 'West Lake', a beautiful scenery in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lake
         
        At the West Lake is also the Tomb of Yue Fei, General and 'Patron Saint' of Chinese Martial Arts, the 'Inventor' of Xing Yi Chuan and 2-3 other Kung Fu Styles, as well as a temple for Yue Fei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Fei, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Yue_Fei, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Fei_Temple
         
        Sincerly,
        Michael
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        • #19
          About Mainstream and Mainstream

          Sponsored by Coke: Coke Studio,

          >96 million hits on YouTube: this is mainstream...

          ...at least in Pakistan...

          ...and in Western Europe it's '80's Party' again and again and again...

          Bye bye Europe...good night and sleep well...


          Rahat Fateh Ali Khan & Momina Mustehsan: Afreen Afreen

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4tT7SCmaY

          (the last minute is the best, could listen to it over and over again...)


          from the lyrics:


          We have never seen one with such beauty as she

          Hers is the beauty of the sculptured idols of Ajanta

          Her beauty has bewitched our gaze

          Her beauty is an alluring song

          Her beauty is a heady fragrance

          Hers is beauty of scented moonlight

          Hers is the beauty of a haunting melody

          Hers is the beauty of a blossoming garden

          Hers is the beauty of the first light of dawn

          Hers is the most exquisitely hewn beauty

          Warm and smooth as sandalwood

          Pure and delicate as marble

          It is impossible to describe that beautiful beloved

          Praise to her Creator! = refrain: Afireen Afireen






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          • #20
            Chinese Music from Singapore - ancient and moderne

            MUSA Chinese music from Singapore:


            Chinese twin sisters Tan Su-Hui (Guzheng) and Tan Su-Min (Zhongruan) and Dayn Ng (Arranger and composer in residence)...
            they've studied Chinese folk instruments and also play after pop songs in order to create something the younger generation can relate to...


            Nice entree - could listen to it on loop:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAHJEDCxxM


            less pop oriented:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIc81lhLHcY
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVDsk1iywY

            May you enjoy, regards, Michael


            ...and the music is also beautiful.,.


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            • #21
              The Sun shines bright over Tian Shan Mountain

              Thian Shan - mystical mountain ranges in the 'Western Lands', nowadays Xinjiang, China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Shan


              'The sun shines bright over Tian Shan mountain' is a traditional Chinese piece of music for Guzheng (mostly, as far as I know...). Chinese Composer Huang Huwei also arranged a version for Piano and Flute, but here a version for Guzheng by


              Bei Bei, Guzheng: http://www.beibeizheng.com/main/Home.html


              'Sun shines...': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLC_AGgGVws
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              • #22
                Classical India and World Fusion: Nirali Kartik and Maati Baani

                Nirali Kartik is a Vocalist in classical Indian Hindustani music style: https://www.niralikartik.com/


                Together with her husband (Guitarist Kartik Sha) they engage in collaborations with musicians over the word wide web in a modern fushion style, under the name Maati Baani and 'create the freshest forms of original music' in their words, and this resembles quite good the impression I'm getting from it: creativity, freshness, originality, crossing bridges over cultures and continents, transcending stuck musical and societal categories and views on what's 'spiritual' and what's 'wordly', joyful, spicy, heart-warming.

                Some of my favourites (lyrics in the subtitles):


                'Rang Rangiya' - Maati Baani featering pakistani singer and actress Komal Rizvi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O393RStNq4c


                'Lagan Lagi Re' - with american musicians, a lady playing a saw, and indian traditional musicians in a New York Subway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kfim1JI5BI


                'Banjara' - featering Indian Sufi folk singer Mooralala Marwada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igYlWqhm-U
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                • #23
                  Franco Battiato - Italy and beyond - where Europe is still alive

                  Franco Battiato from Italy - maybe one of the last Composer-Musicians of calibre in Europe crossing classical and contemporary music including pop and canzoni/chansons: http://www.battiato.it/


                  Italian Singer Milva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milva


                  70 year old Milva live performing 'Alexanderplatz' (Battiato/Piu/Cohen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kld--fgXNeg


                  'Bist Du bei mir'...


                  Franco Battiato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmL-ND0AtXk


                  Milva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rKbVo23xgA


                  Johann Sebastian Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxgVQaqPfk


                  'Bist Du bei mir geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh' (my translation: When you are here with me I'm going with joys to dying and to my rest').


                  Franco Battitao ft. Carmen Consoli - 'Tutto l'universo obeddisce all'amore': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0pH-AEtdgw


                  Franca Battiato - 'Voglio vederti danzare': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nxXrHZ2HL4


                  Franco Battiato - 'No time, no space': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y44YzIODw0


                  'No time, no space, another race of vibrations, keep your feelings in memory, I love you - especially tonight'...and I love esp. the string orchestra part at the end of the piece...


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                  • #24
                    North Africa and Europe

                    One song in three versions - Northern Africa and European fusion - don't know whether I've posted this before:


                    Idir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idir) from Northern Africa of 'non-arabian' Kabyle culture wrote the original song 'Azwaw': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5_nbXy5JyU


                    Together with arabian tunesian and france based Singer Cheb Mami as european fusion (incl. bagpipes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv8wAO6M5s


                    And only by Cheb Mami as 'Au Pays Des Merveilles': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNC048fUqxg


                    Encore: Cheb Mami - Baida Saida - my favourite Mami song maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDf7yDniEU
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                    • #25
                      Chinese Piano Music from the home of the Panda

                      'My music is just a wilde flower in campagne'...

                      Chinese Composer Huang Huwei is from Sichuan province in China, one of his most cherished works is the piano suite 'Pictures from Bashu'.

                      Bashu is an old name for Sichuan, the part of China where the Panda lives...

                      Here by Alice Huang on piano at a student contest - 'not always on track' but still a nice version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvV-BPfuw8

                      The suite contains traditional Sichuan as well as Tibetan pieces set for piano.

                      'The ultimate version' of this suite is on 'Scenes from China' recording by Chinese pianist Koo Kwok Kuen, with Chinese piano suites based on music from regions Guangdong, Sichuan, North Shaanxi, Yunnan, East Mongolia: https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.225848&catNum=22584 8&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=Engli sh

                      And on this recording it can definately be heard what's said about Koo Kwok Kuen, that his piano playing resembles the quality of a Chinese watercolor painting...

                      Bye for now,

                      Michael






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                      • #26
                        errata to post no. 21 - the su shines over jing gang - and tian shan

                        errata:
                        in post # I've most likely wrongly attributed 'The sun shines bright over jinggang mountain' to the Tian Shan and Huang Huwei's composition. The Jing Gang are a quite different mountain range and Huwei's composition based on other material.

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                        • #27
                          And the sun does shine bright over Tian Shan mountain

                          Here a performance of Chinese composer Huang Huwei's 'The Sun shines bright over Tian Shan mountain' for piano and flute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItdEQDJDXqk



                          Here Arken Abdullah from Xinjiang with Tian Shan the Eagle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5s4M5BUGQ
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                          • #28
                            And the sun shines bright over Jing Gang mountain

                            Here 'The sun shines bright over Jing Gang mountain' for Guzheng again by Bei Bei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLC_AGgGVws


                            And a version of 'the sun shines bright in Jing Gang Mountain' with Guzheng and other instruments by Zhou Tao Tao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQeIQ4fEGDo


                            The Jing Gang mountains are between Jiangxi and Hunan Province: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinggang_Mountains
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                            • #29
                              Flute and Drum at Sunset / Spring-River-Flower-Moon-Night

                              'Flute and Drum at Sunset' is a Chinsese music piece said to date back to the MIng dynasty 1368-1644.



                              It's said that in 1925, when adapted for Orchestra it was renamed into 'Spring on the Moonlit River', but in Chinese somewhat 'Spring-River-Flower-Moon-Night'.


                              The new name would be based on a poem by Zhang Ruoxu dating back to the Tang dynasty 618-907, said to be 'Poems of Poems':


                              In spring the river rises as high as the sea,
                              And with the river’s rise the moon uprises bright.
                              She follows the rolling waves for ten thousand li,
                              And where the river flows, there overflows her light.
                              The river winds around the fragrant islet where
                              The blooming flowers in her light all look like snow.
                              You cannot tell her beams from hoar frost in the air,
                              Nor from white sand upon Farewell Beach below.
                              No dust has stained the water blending with the skies;
                              A lonely wheel like moon shines brilliant far and wide.
                              Who by the riverside first saw the moon arise?
                              When did the moon first see a man by riverside?
                              Ah, generations have come and pasted away;
                              From year to year the moons look alike, old and new.
                              We do not know tonight for whom she sheds her ray,
                              But hear the river say to its water adieu.
                              Away, away is sailing a single cloud white;
                              On Farewell Beach pine away maples green.
                              Where is the wanderer sailing his boat tonight?
                              Who, pining away, on the moonlit rails would learn?
                              Alas! The moon is lingering over the tower;
                              It should have seen the dressing table of the fair.
                              She rolls the curtain up and light comes in her bower;
                              She washes but can’t wash away the moonbeams there.
                              She sees the moon, but her beloved is out of sight;
                              She’d follow it to shine on her beloved one’s face.
                              But message-bearing swans can’t fly out of moonlight,
                              Nor can letter-sending fish leap out of their place.
                              Last night he dreamed that falling flowers would not stay.
                              Alas! He can’t go home, although half spring has gone.
                              The running water bearing spring will pass away;
                              The moon declining over the pool will sink anon.
                              The moon declining sinks into a heavy mist;
                              It’s a long way between southern rivers and eastern seas.
                              How many can go home by moonlight who are missed?
                              The sinking moon sheds yearning o’er riverside trees.



                               


                              source: https://chinablog.cc/2009/08/a-moonlit-night-on-the-spring-river-music-is-poetry/


                              Here a recording of a piano version; there is a piano version as 'Flute and Drum at Sunset' by Chinese Composer Li Yinghai:


                              Yin Chenzong, Piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nSiJ9TljI






                              And here a traditional version with Guzheng: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuWKiLZCxT4




                              Ressources:




                              There is way more info and other versions in the source link given above, a quite cool website/blog about China and Chinese Music, for those who like to explore more about this here and other themes.




                              For those who learn play the piano, there is a Chinese Famous Composes Piano Works Series from Shanghai Music Publishing with Sheetmusic and some information sometimes from the composers themselves, in Chinese and in English. I've found they only available in China: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/piano-works-famous-chinese-composers/author/tong-dao-jin-wang-qin/


                              With Shaolin Salute

                              Michael









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                              • #30
                                Chinese Dai Peacock Dance and Bamboo under Moonlight

                                Chinese Dai Peacok Dance and Bamboo under Moonlight


                                Yunnan Province, China:


                                Exploring a bit along a cool side with background - amongst other things - to Chinese Music I've posted before in a post found the following beautiful music and dance I'd like to share:


                                Fernleaf Hedge Bamboo under Moonlight


                                The solo instrument is a Chinese Flute called Hulusi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulusi


                                The music is not ancient but was composed in 1978 under inspiration from watching locals singing love songs and playing Hulusi in bamboo woods under moonlight: https://chinablog.cc/2009/07/fernleaf-hedge-bamboo-in-the-moonlight-the-tropical-romance/


                                These were of the minority group of Dai people in China which is a group of the ethnicity known also from Thailand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_people


                                The music:


                                a) This youtube video of Fernleaf Hedge Bamboo features beautiful pictures of the Chinese Dai Peacock dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYNcohQYqc


                                b) Here the same music with a bit fresher Hulusi sound and a nice video covering the scene of a bamboo under moonlight and showing the Hulusi Player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIcUywOVtw


                                Peacock Dance:


                                The pictures of the peacock dancer in a) seem to be of Yang Liping, here an interesting interview with her: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/05/21/stage/yang-liping-speaks/#.Wfxzff7rsq1


                                Here two links showing peacock dances of Yang Liping:


                                c) Chinese Peacock Dance solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvhBwwuEGS4


                                d) Love of Peacock - 'ethereal aesthetic': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkwOdunfAw


                                May you enjoy,
                                Michael


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