Gorgeous Flowers, Full Moon

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Attended this mini-concert on Feb 2 of this year where they played 花好月圓 at the Chin-Yuan Orchestra office located in the camera shopping district in Taipei. This is supposed to be a very cheerful and happy song, but I was so depressed at that time that sometimes I felt like wanting to cry rather than to be happy.

The main dizi player-- the female with the short hair-- is Anita Chien, a flute teacher based in Taiwan. She accidentally had a few dizis rolling down from the table to the ground a few times to the point that the audience chuckled and she rolled her eyes in embarrassment.

Fortunately by sitting in the back, I made sure that the camcorder wouldn't shoot the back of my head:




Here are other renditions of 花好月圓:

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Here is Anita's YouTube channel with performances involving her or her students:

www.youtube.com/user/anita604?feature=watch

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And of course Edcat will highly likely ask for the sheet music if he hasn't have it already as this piece contains more string than wind component to it. Here's part I of the sheet music.

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And here is part II.

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Thanks Allen, you beat me to it, but without the backing track it won't sound half as good.

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Then focus on playing the dizi part as it sounds like melody one would use to go into battle . . . . .

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To a certain extent, you can get away playing this song without backing.

Here's me playing this song using the six finger dongxiao that the person who was once my best friend gave me. How I miss seeing him smile when I play the dongxiao even though I'm a so-so player.



Then here's me playing this song using a seven finger plastic dongxiao. I feel however that the plastic dongxiao sounds too soft.


Finally, here's me playing this song using Fandizhi's Queen's Tears Qinxiao:

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And here's the Google rendition, which you can hear by playing this web-based game:

Qixi Festival Google Doodle