Post by xindi on Feb 5, 2012 16:39:36 GMT
Found this link from my old laptop which I got repaired 
It's not exactly easy listening music, but it kind of what I liked.
I used to listen to western classical music a lot - music from the plainsong era of the monastic chants, right up to the classical and baroque era and the post-serialist movements.
A few years ago, things took a turn around when I was working in China, discovering that 'traditional' classical music, meant over thousands of years old, rather than just mere centuries.
fr.cctv.com/program/artsetspectacles/20091130/100622.shtml
Here's a variety of pieces you might find intriguing:
The first piece (derived from the ethnic Naxi tribe in Yunnan province) has a strong gutteral rhythm - much of the music there is very drum and bass focussed, unlike Han music which tends to emphasise melody. It's a great chamber arrangement, with a guzheng, erhu, pipa, liuqin and dizi. I'd love to be in the middle of that playing the bass triangle
Second piece is one of my favourite guzheng pieces - still can't work out the characters to know which score it is lol. This is Wang Zhong Shan - not common to find a guy playing guzheng, but he has a number of youtube videos. I always thought this piece was from Yunnan province too (where I first heard it)?
The Mouillage de Nuit, is a Tang Dynasty piece - I'm finding the textures of Tang Dynasty music just incredible. Maybe we've taken a few steps backwards, but the sonorities the music brings out on different levels are rewarded by repeated listenings....
I'm afraid I'm not a fan of the Flowers of the Night composition. It sounds too much western-wannabe to my ears. Whereas it wouldn't fit out of place in contemporary music, any guzheng player who has to stand and yaw out of her seat during performance doesn't impress me.
The 5th piece, Living waters, is onamatopoeic - the sonorities of the guzheng's higher octave are intended to be evocative of water flowing in a pastoral scene - plaintive, and meditative.
Last piece is from the amazing southwest of China - can't wait to go back
It's not exactly easy listening music, but it kind of what I liked.
I used to listen to western classical music a lot - music from the plainsong era of the monastic chants, right up to the classical and baroque era and the post-serialist movements.
A few years ago, things took a turn around when I was working in China, discovering that 'traditional' classical music, meant over thousands of years old, rather than just mere centuries.
fr.cctv.com/program/artsetspectacles/20091130/100622.shtml
Here's a variety of pieces you might find intriguing:
The first piece (derived from the ethnic Naxi tribe in Yunnan province) has a strong gutteral rhythm - much of the music there is very drum and bass focussed, unlike Han music which tends to emphasise melody. It's a great chamber arrangement, with a guzheng, erhu, pipa, liuqin and dizi. I'd love to be in the middle of that playing the bass triangle
Second piece is one of my favourite guzheng pieces - still can't work out the characters to know which score it is lol. This is Wang Zhong Shan - not common to find a guy playing guzheng, but he has a number of youtube videos. I always thought this piece was from Yunnan province too (where I first heard it)?
The Mouillage de Nuit, is a Tang Dynasty piece - I'm finding the textures of Tang Dynasty music just incredible. Maybe we've taken a few steps backwards, but the sonorities the music brings out on different levels are rewarded by repeated listenings....
I'm afraid I'm not a fan of the Flowers of the Night composition. It sounds too much western-wannabe to my ears. Whereas it wouldn't fit out of place in contemporary music, any guzheng player who has to stand and yaw out of her seat during performance doesn't impress me.
The 5th piece, Living waters, is onamatopoeic - the sonorities of the guzheng's higher octave are intended to be evocative of water flowing in a pastoral scene - plaintive, and meditative.
Last piece is from the amazing southwest of China - can't wait to go back
