music comparison purple bamboo melody to bright sheng’s shanghai overture
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MUSIC COMPARISONPurple Bamboo Melody to Bright Sheng’s
Shanghai Overture
CHINA❖ 2nd largest country by land mass❖ Population: 1,361,170,000❖ 91.51% Han Chinese❖ 34 provinces
❖ Dialects: Mandarin, Wu, Min,Xiang, Gan, Hakka
❖ Most common dialect: Mandarin❖ Borders 14 countries, and shares
maritime borders with 4 others
❖ The People’s Republic of China ever since 1959
❖ Went through movements like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
❖ Ancient China was based on dynasties and was very advanced at the time
❖ Influenced many of the surrounding countries
❖ Traditional Chinese instruments were the predecessors of many others
❖ Guzheng (古箏 ): Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Japanese koto
Traditional Chinese Instruments❖ Erhu (二胡 )❖ Pipa (琵琶 )❖ Zheng or guzheng (古箏 )❖ Yangqin (揚琴 )
ERHU (二胡 )❖ Spike-fiddle of the huqin family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE
PIPA (琵琶 )❖ Pear-shaped lute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA
ZHENG or guzheng (古箏 )❖ A zither with movable frets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bof1GlvAo0
YANGQIN (揚琴 )
❖ A hammered dulcimerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgx5MyLhm8
Purple Bamboo Melody (紫竹调 )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68
BRIGHT sHENG (Sheng Zong-Liang)❖ Born in Shanghai, December 1955❖ Sent to Qinghai (near Tibet) during
Cultural Revolution❖ Moved to America 1982
STUDIES❖ Learned piano, but had to teach
himself music theory while in Qinghai❖ Went to Shanghai Conservatory of
Music to study music❖ Studied with George Perle, Hugo
Weisgall, Chou Wen-Chung, Jack Beeson, Mario Davidovsky, and Leonard Bernstein in America
INFLUENCES❖ Chinese folk music❖ Béla Bartók, a Hungarian composer
NOTABLE WORKS❖ Madame Mao❖ Shanghai Overture ❖ The Song and Dance of Tears❖ Nanking! Nanking!❖ China Dreams
SHANGHAI OVERTUREhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g
COMPARISON❖ Both have an intro, then the
melody focuses on one of two players at a
time with the other players providing accompaniment
❖ Shanghai Overture uses the main theme of Purple Bamboo Melody
❖ Instrumentation (traditional Chinese vs. classical symphony instruments)
❖ Use of dynamics❖ Variations of the style
DIFFERENCES
THE END 結束
WORKS CITEDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgx5MyLhm8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bof1GlvAo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g
http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/long-bio/Bright-Shenghttp://www.brightsheng.com/http://www.brightsheng.com/programnotes/Shanghaioverture.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g