Delivering Public Grain Happily/Matouqin

[pledgeofmatouqin]

Anyone tried playing this piece? (Delivering Public Grain Happily)

Also, anyone know any "Matouqin"-sounding pieces online (usually ones played on F, like Sai Ma)

***If anyone knows where I can listen to Night Deeply Sunk online, I would really appreciate a link!!!

[sanmenxia]

Yeah I've tried to play some of it, not that I can, I like the piece.

For matouqin-sounding pieces, there's "pulling a camel" (la luotuo) and "matouqin song" (matouqin zhi ge). Also there's Cao yuan shang (on grassland) and "mumin gui lai le" (shephards have returned) for zhonghu.

If you know some basic Chinese characters, you can usually find something on Baidu or Chinese yahoo.

[davidmdahl]

pledgeofmatouqin said:

Anyone tried playing this piece? (Delivering Public Grain Happily)

I have it on a CD set, but have not tried to play it. Sounds fun.

pledgeofmatouqin said:

Also, anyone know any "Matouqin"-sounding pieces online (usually ones played on F, like Sai Ma)

As sanmenxia suggests, "La Luo Tuo" is quite lovely and fun to play. I have seen it translated as Tending the Camels, or something like that.

The (original?) version of Sai Ma with the free form cadenza near the end is much more "Mongolian" sounding, and is fun to play. So far I have not managed to find a recording. Everyone seems only to play the shortened version. Too bad.

pledgeofmatouqin said:

***If anyone knows where I can listen to Night Deeply Sunk online, I would really appreciate a link!!!

It is often a lot easier to find a Chinese tune if you can search on the pinyin, or better yet, the name in Chinese characters. That is how I found MP3 recordings of La Luo Tuo.

Best wishes,

David

[sanmenxia]

Cao yuan shang (on grassland):try no 4, 9, or 10

mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%D6%D0%BA%FA&lm=0


"pulling a camel" (la luotuo): not sure which one
mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%C0%AD%C2%E6%CD%D5&lm=0

Night Deeply Sunk (ye shen chen) for jinghu: no 3
mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%BE%A9%BA%FA&lm=0

[sanmenxia]

mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%C8%FC%C2%ED&lm=0

No 3 might be the longer version of sai ma, although i remember i downloaded something I thought to be the longer version of sai ma, but it turned out to be Cao yuan shang (on grassland), so this link might be wrong

[sanmenxia]

The list of files on the search results seems to change, so the files I indicated before won't apply when you open the link.

[pledgeofmatouqin]

Thanks so much for the great links!!!

These were clips that I have been searching for quite a while. You're right, the Chinese certainly helps!!!

Sanmenxia, can you give me a link to "Zi Zhu Diao" (Purple Bamboo Melody)?

Thanks to you all!

[sanmenxia]

mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%D7%CF%D6%F1%B5%F7&lm=0
Search results from "Zi Zhu Diao", so can't tell what arrangements or instruments.


mp3.baidu.com/m?f=ms&tn=baidump3&ct=134217728&lf=&rn=&word=%D7%CF%D6%F1%B5%F7+%B6%FE%BA%FA&lm=0
Search results from "Zi Zhu Diao er hu", (need to copy and paste whole url)