These two complementary works are representative of the "martial suite"pipa genre.
We strike the gong in sand-darkened land where wind blows And hear the pipa tell the Princess* secret woes.
his sample is derived from a traditional pipa solo piece "The Ambush", performed by Liu Fang on June 13, 1999, recorded live by the Society of Radio-Canada (producer: Lorraine Chalifoux)The whole piece is found in the album The Soul of Pipa (2).
His erhu pieces included Groaning in Sickness, Bird Calls on the Lonely Mountain, Moonlit Night, Fine Night and Brightness, and his pipa pieces included Song-and-Dance Prologue and Reform.
A little cinnabar, two square Roper, 35 swan goose, scattered the four seasons of flowering. Six string green, seven stars when hanging, eight or nine points Acacia, lazy ten years pipa. With tears like smiles and madness, it is impossible to break the human intestines. Beautiful tears, tears, flowers also drunk between tears.
The pipa is a sonorous, four-stringed, pear-shaped instrument held upright on the lap.
The instruments used are usually the touxian, tihu, yehu, yangqin, yuexian, three-string, pipa, small suona, flute, vertical bamboo flute, sheng and cloud clappers.
" However, in the Han Dynasty Iranian music had already began to move into China, as is evident from instrumental names: for instance, the four-stringed lute (barbat) became the pipa."
Under the pipa, I rebounded for the bones.
Chinese pipa long history of development of the arts, is a colorful, flickering light of civilization with the magnificent scroll.
WHEN Wu Man arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, from Beijing in 1990 she spoke no English and gambled on surviving with the help of her pipa, a traditional lute-like Chinese instrument.
Some of the more noteworthy pipa works are:
The pipa entered alone after a silence, with a pungent clash of chords, … and made way for an intimate music of real lyric beauty.
At this moment, in the courtyard of the courtyard, picking a basket of green vegetables, making a few jars of wine, or sitting under the idle window, playing a pipa, writing a few lines of Scripture, or overlooking the fence, looking at the light of grass and thin willows.
"The first time I saw Fang perform, I was amazed at her discipline and her level of virtuosity on the pipa and guzheng. ..." - Dugg Simpson, Artistic director, Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
The pipa is the most popular of China's many plucked stringed instruments.
Flying Shadows - voice, pipa. World premiered by Liu Sola, Yang Jing. USA. 2007.
Panzhihua Huashan only at the foot of the confusion, heart not Cheng swim, climb Mount Lu cloud is too naughty, time and again hold the pipa.
The crooked neck was in fashion from the time of the Wei Dynasty to that of the Tang Dynasty. Similar instruments, such as the guizi pipa, five-string and hulei were all-semi-pear-shaped, and were all referred to as "huqin".
Changan willow and Luoyang flowers, if you see all the time to return home. 35 nights are short, and sit alone in the pipa. At that time, when I went to Wanli sand, if you read me for years, the wind and snow must be silent.
