Sheet Music by Zhao Jiping, Tan Dun

[gawn]

I really like the soundtracks and pieces composed by Zhao Jiping - for example for the movies Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern, The Story of Qiu Ju, Farewell, My Concubine and others.

The same goes for Tan Dun's scores for Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Banquet - just beautiful music!
I haven't been able to find any published sheet music by either composers... Who knows a source (preferably western staff notation, but I'd also be interested in jianpu) ?

Thanks

Georg

[xindi]

Some of the most seminal films to emerge from China in the past 20 years listed there. Gong Li stars in first 5 of your films - her performances are just sublime. Her role and fate in the films is superb - she gets riddled with bullets whilst bringing food to her workers by the Japanese; becomes psychotically mad; gets burned alive, and hangs herself during the Cultural Revolution. What female actress has such an illustrious CV across her films?!

I have the sheet music for one of the themes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - you can get it on '50 film tunes for alto sax'. It is in treble clef notation (and not alto clef notation which western music readers are less fond of!)

I use this for the alto flute, but there's no reason why you can't transpose it to suit your favourite instrument since the score is in the key of D major. This is published by www.musicsales.com Wise Publications. As far as phrasings and detail goes, the music is better served than some other film score books I've come across which I find completely forgettable. This is the only sound track relevant to your interests in this book though...

[caeman]

Sites like musicnotes.com sometimes have movie scores, but usually for piano or guitar. You have to fill in the blanks for other instruments.