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MTSU Center for Chinese Music and Culture
Приєднався 19 лип 2016
Center for Chinese Music and Culture at Middle Tennessee State University brings Chinese music and culture to the Music City. This channel features performance of Chinese music and dance.
Cooing and Wooing
This is the first poem in The Book of Songs, China's first collection of poetry that compiled 311 poetic songs from the 11th to the 6th century BC, and is considered a love song. In the first verse, birds sing toward each other, which evokes the loving sentiment between a pair of young lovers. The Book of Songs records the songs of the ancestors; about social and daily life, marriage and love, banquets, and war. It is a window to trace the origin of Chinese ritual and music civilization. At one time in the past, Chinese poems were set to music. The score used for today’s concert is preserved in The Wei’s Music Score, which was collected in the 1600s and published in 1768. Scholars believe that the collection includes music composed before the Chinese Song dynasty (960-1279) and had been handed down from generation to generation.
This performance was on April 20, 2024, for the Chinese Embassy.
This performance was on April 20, 2024, for the Chinese Embassy.
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Se-piri Soloist gamin - Long Live the King for a Thousand Years - Cheonnyeon Manse
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A three-movement suite, Cheonnyeon Manse (ca. 1400) is from the Chamber Music Collection of the music of aristocracy (Cheongak). The piece is part of the repertoire of the string ensemble, chulpungryu, for the male scholars of the Choseon Dynasty at a social gathering known as p’ungryubang. Each movement has a distinctive melodic mode and rhythmic cycle. The first movement is performed in relat...
Joyful Meeting 喜相逢
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Joyful Meeting is a famous composition for the dizi, a Chinese bamboo flute. The melody derives from Bangzi, a genre of regional opera found in Hebei province, and the composition uses "theme and variations," a structure commonly used in instrumental folk music from Northern China.
Dragon Dog
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Dragon Dog is a structured improvisation created by Mei Han and Randy Raine-Reusch in 1999. Originally recorded and released in their album Distant Wind (Za Discs, 2000). This rendition was arranged for the MTSU Chinese Music Ensemble and performed at the School of Music Hinton Hall on October 8th, 2023. Zheng: Mei Han and Randy Raine-Resuch Yangqin: Lyujing Liu Daruan: Jarran Armstrong Zhongru...
Madam Liuqing 柳青娘 - in the mode of “Lively Five,” performed by Gao Baijian 高百坚
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Madam Liuqing 柳青娘 is one of the representative compositions of Chaozhou zheng, a traditional instrumental genre from Eastern Guangdong Province, southern China. Chaozhou culture and music have deep roots in ancient Chinese music. “Lively Five” 活五 mode is one of five modes of Chaozhou music, and it is considered the most sophisticated mode to play by Chaozhou musicians, as the musician uses many...
Green Willow Impromptu 杨柳青随想 (Yang Liu Qing Suixiang)
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Wu Man (pipa), Wang Hong (erhu), and Han Mei (zheng) improvised on the melody of Yang Liu Qing or Green Willow, a folk song from Jiangsu Province.
Song of the Yimeng Mountain 沂蒙山小调
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This is a famous folk song in praise of the beauty of Yimeng Mountain from Shandong Province, Northern China. The lyrics were revised in 1953. This ensemble score was arranged by Zhu Changyao. erhu solo: Wang Hong vocal: Emily Lenz, Jarran Armstrong MTSU Chinese Ensemble Spring semester concert, April 14th at Hinton Hall, School of Music, Middle Tennessee State University.
Lonesome Road Blues
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When pipa master Wu Man performed at MTSU School of Music, she graciously invited MTSU alumni Emory Gaskill to "jam" with her on stage. This is one of the pieces they played together: the Lonesome Road Blues, a 1927 song by Nathaniel Shilkret and Gene Austin (lyrics).
Spring 春 - 2009, Wang Se, Huang He 王瑟、黄河
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Yangqin: Lyujing Liu 刘旅静 Violin: Andrea Dawson Piano: Alessandra Volpi This piece is one of the four-part suites depicting all four seasons. The composition includes the song, dance, music, and the sound of spring. The composition speaks of the cycle of life, regeneration, renewal, and people’s dreams of spring and their yearning for youth. 这首乐曲是组曲《四季》中的一首。全曲有四个部分组成:春之歌、春之舞、春之乐、春之声。表现了万物复苏,生命的延...
Improv. on the theme of Jasmine Flower 茉莉花主题即兴
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In April 2023, Dr. Mei Han 韩梅 invited Wu Man 吴蛮 and Wang Hong 汪洪, two renowned American/Chinese musicians, to visit MTSU. While there, the three musicians improvised on a few Chinese folk tunes, including Jasmine Flower, a folk song with many variations.
GRAND UNITY 天下大同 - traditional Shandong zheng music
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Grand Unity 天下大同 is a traditional composition created upon the baban or eight-beats. It adopted the vocal style of qinshu, a narrative song of Shandong in Northern China; and the style is reflected through the left-hand bending strings on the zheng, a multiple-stringed long zither. The title suggests that the eight-beats was so well known that it unified the universe.
Traversing the Ancient Pass 古道行 - Liu Lyujing: 扬琴 (hammer dulcimer), Alessandra Volpi: piano.
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Traversing the Ancient Pass was composed by He Huang in 1997. Traveling the ancient Silk Road was arduous, and almost every step echoes the experiences of those who had traveled before. The road is filled with signposts, ancient and modern, that tell the tale of forgotten armies, merchants, envoys, or adventurers, with their songs of love and longing still reverberating through the high mountai...
Luna y Sierra
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"On August 5th, 2009, I enjoyed a spectacular full moon. From the Andalusian village of Huetor Santillan near Granada (Spain), I had a full view over the Sierra Nevada mountains. With the sun just down, still painting the mountains with an orange-red hypnotism, the full moon appeared from behind the mountains and I could enjoy a moment of bare beauty. I wrote 'Luna y sierra' to celebrate that m...
Harvest Drums 丰收锣鼓
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Composed by Li Zuji (1972), this composition uses qinshu, a folk narrative style from Shandong province, northern China, to depict the farmers' simple yet energetic lives in the region.
The Singing of Birds Resounds in the Valley 空山鸟语
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The Singing of Birds Resounds in the Valley composer: Wei Xiaohan arrangers: Mei Han and Lyujing Liu This piece is a modern composition based on a style of imperial Chinese court music. It is written in the conversational style with one instrument stating an idea and another answering. The arrangement adds bronze bells and stone chime, which bestows a sonic image of ancient China. The piece was...
Blueridge Cabin Home and Xi Yang Yang (喜洋洋)
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Blueridge Cabin Home and Xi Yang Yang (喜洋洋)
Little Cowboy 小放牛, Dizi (笛子): Amy Brown,Yangqin (扬琴): Lyujing Liu 刘旅静
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Little Cowboy 小放牛, Dizi (笛子): Amy Brown,Yangqin (扬琴): Lyujing Liu 刘旅静
Empty Sound 虚籁 - composed by Liu, Tianhua 刘天华曲 (1929), performed by Zhang Qiang 张强
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Empty Sound 虚籁 - composed by Liu, Tianhua 刘天华曲 (1929), performed by Zhang Qiang 张强
Secret Fragrance 暗香 - Jiang Kui 姜夔 (1155-1221)
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Secret Fragrance 暗香 - Jiang Kui 姜夔 (1155-1221)
Kangding Love Song 康定情歌 - arranged by Jonathan Wires
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Kangding Love Song 康定情歌 - arranged by Jonathan Wires
120,000 Stories: Nobuko Miyamoto and Her Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution
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120,000 Stories: Nobuko Miyamoto and Her Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution
The Interrupted Dream 惊梦 游园 from The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭
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The Interrupted Dream 惊梦 游园 from The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭
Parasol Moon by Matt Endahl and Mei Han
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Parasol Moon by Matt Endahl and Mei Han
Dizi 笛子 - Chinese transverse bamboo flute
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Dizi 笛子 - Chinese transverse bamboo flute
Sonnymoon for Two - zhongruan solo 中阮演奏爵士名曲
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Sonnymoon for Two - zhongruan solo 中阮演奏爵士名曲
Lovely!
This instrument look like Sindhi borindo instrument
南宋格律派词作的巅峰
"Guan Ju" (Shuang Diao)《关雎(双调)》("Cry of the Ospreys" in Shuang mode), with text from the "Shi Jing"《诗经》(whose title is translated variously as the Book of Songs, Classic of Poetry, or Book of Odes) This piece is found in the "Weishi Yuepu"《魏氏乐谱》, an important collection of Chinese palace entertainment pieces compiled by Wei Hao (魏浩, courtesy name Wei Ziming, 魏子明), a music scholar of Chinese heritage, in Nagasaki, Japan in 1768, during the Edo (Tokugawa) period, which was also the 33rd year of the reign of the Qing Dynasty emperor Qianlong. This music is believed to have been in use in the imperial court in Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty (early 17th century). The "Weishi Yuepu" collection comprises 50 tunes that include vocal pieces with texts from the "Shi Jing" (Confucian "Classic of Poetry") and Han Dynasty _yuefu_ (汉乐府), as well as poems from the Tang and Song dynasties. These tunes were originally in the possession of Wei Shuanghou (魏双侯, courtesy name Wei Zhiyan, 魏之琰; c. 1617-1689), a palace music master of the late Ming Dynasty from Fuqing, Fuzhou, Fujian province, southeast China who fled to Nagasaki, Japan upon that dynasty's fall in 1644. Wei Shuanghou's fourth-generation descendant Wei Hao, who prepared the "Weishi Yuepu," was a Chinese music specialist employed by the Tokugawa court. At that time in Japan this style of music was called Mingaku (明樂 / みんがく, literally "music from the Ming [Dynasty]"). Wei Hao selected the most important tunes out of a collection of more than 200 pieces and had them printed in 1768. The collection includes a broad array of scores for various wind, string, and percussion instruments, which are grouped into eight distinct modes. Your performance should be one of the first-ever performances of music from the "Weishi Yuepu" in North America.
Most beautiful 😔❤️
Just wonderful thank you
So beautiful
So unique musical instrument. It's aweful.❤
❤beautiful music!
WWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
So beautiful!
The ancient Dukes and Kings of the Zhou Dynasty would surely be proud to hear the sounds of the bells again ... no doubt Confucius himself too ... and naturally Duke of Zhou and Zhou Wen Wang
Certified hood classic bro! @RyanDoole
吹的真次 你们教的?
著中山裝不太方便彈琵琶,着傳統直袖唐裝左手活動會方便好多。即放平件衫會睇落成T字型嗰種。
Not enough information on the functional design to allow me to build one. I got what a free reed is, but how is the air directed to only the reeds intended to sound?
I was there earlier for my field trip it was super fun
Did anyone notice the smiling face hanging on the wall right of tbe lady? 😁
Hahaha. Yes, we did. That is a Chinese lute called ruan.
@@mtsucenterforchinesemusic thank you for telling me, and thank you for this beautiful video: I am an admirer of the chinese culture
在非常美丽的环境中非常美丽的独奏,干得好
真正值得学习保留的古曲!
是 四川將軍今。
Fascinating how many effects pieces of wood can have. And I love dr Mai Hans dress!
can you guide me to find a collection of the best known traditional Chinese music for the xiao or the dizi. thank you
scores in book or pdf
this is one of the songs that i mastered ahah i play it all the time...
Aahh so this is the former version of traditional percussion from Jakarta (Hokkien-Betawi culture) before it transfomed to Gambang. Beautiful!
Great performance, such control over the bends! Zheng is such a versatile instrument, I just love the sound of it and the amount of musical possibilities it has.
Thank you for your comments.
The lady is beautiful and elegant and the grandpa with his rap is cute and adorable. I loved this!
❤❤❤❤ anybody knows the position Howard played? 4th on a G?
Not me unable to to pay attention to song and not the eyebrows 💀
Thanks for your valuable videos 💐❤
音準好贊!另外琴的左側是加了靜音用的裝置嗎?這要是邊彈邊踩靜音感覺腦子會轉不過來哈哈哈😂
I discovered this video by playing a mobile game called Animal Restaurant and one of the characters play a Sheng so I had to look it up cause I had never heard of such instrument and found this video...i love learning!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this educational video.
Thank you for your feedback!
Thank you sharing! Enjoyed this very much... cheerful.
Thank you for watching.
Feichang piaoliang yinyue.
More of this please, but with better sound recording. As a Virginia native with bluegrass in my blood, I enjoy the Chinese version very much.
Thank you. Getting a good sound from a live performance is always a challenge. :)
Another cross-cultural blue grass piece: ua-cam.com/video/nVWEGJSZDGk/v-deo.html
Absolutely brilliant. 🙏🏻👍💚
this stone chime is in fact the origin to the character 石 and why this character for stone is drawn such way.
It's the origin of the character 声 (as in 磬). 石 is explained as a stone beneath a cliff (厂)
太作狀了.
An incredibly skilled player. It was a pleasure watching her perform.
My man tearing it up on the qing
Hilarious how the CCP likes to control history. These were unearthed by western archaeologists in 1909. China had no desire to discover their own past, especially when it’s Han related.
So wild, love it. Could you do a video on the xiao please? I know it's not the xiao in the video, but I just want to know more about the chinese xiao; love the xiao. Thanks for the channel.
Thank you for your comments. Will try to create an intro to the xiao.
I love hearing the Yangqin played. I've seen a couple live performances from a recent traveling scholar with this Center and I've heard this particular piece played a couple times. It's a good one
I was at this concert. It was pretty neat to hear Bluegrass tunes being played on Chinese instruments. I used to be friends with Emory Gaskill and I do know Dr. Bailey. I always love hearing Chinese music
Thank you for your comments here, Lee. Have you visited the Center's instrument gallery before? If not yet, come to see us anytime.
@@mtsucenterforchinesemusic I need to swing by some day. According to Dr. Han I keep threatening to come by but I haven't been able to. One day I will.
@@leeholman3964 Hahaha. Come over anytime, Lee.
Isn't Qing also the name of the color of the usually green jadeite?
Different tone and therefore different logograph
Played with so much joy!! It's a privilege to look and listen to such professionalism expressing harmonious beauty.
Was the 12 tone scale, already equal temperament?
Dear Dr. Han, thank you for these videos! Your explanation of the yin-yang balance in the two sides of the zheng caught my attention. I am a scolar of traditional chinese philosophy and a musician myself and I wonder if you could recommend good literature in english language on that topic: The influence of chinese philosophy on chinese instrument design and musical styles/music composition. That would be much appreciated! Thank you! Emanuel Kopf
Very informative. Thank you for introducing us to a very rich tradition.
Wonderful! Amazing virtuosity! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you!!