10 of the best erhu songs

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"Two Springs Reflect the Moon"

"Two Springs Reflect the Moon", a famous Erhu song, was written by Chinese folk musician Hua Yanjun (A Bing) 's masterpiece. The work was compiled in the early 1950s by musician Mr. Yang Yinliu based on Abing's performance, recorded and notated, and recorded into a record, which soon became popular all over the country. From beginning to end, this piece of music reveals the thoughts and emotions of a blind artist who has experienced the bitterness and pain of the world. The work shows unique folk performance skills and styles, as well as unparalleled profound artistic conception, showing the unique charm of Chinese erhu art, which broadens the scope of The expressive power of Erhu art has won the "20th Century Chinese Music Classic Award".

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"Horse Racing"

"Horse Racing" is an erhu solo composed by Huang Haihuai, which was performed during the 4th "Shanghai Spring" in 1964 New works in the Erhu Solo Competition. The music is deeply loved by people for its majestic momentum, warm atmosphere and unrestrained melody. Whether it is a majestic racer or a galloping and neighing horse, they are all vividly represented by the melody of the erhu. The music unfolds amid the neighing of horses, and the melody is rough and unrestrained. The crisp and elastic jumping bow and the distinct strong and weak trills from far to near depict the scene of Mongolian herdsmen celebrating the grand event of horse racing. The use of Erhu's fast bow and jumping bow skills, as well as the use of string picking and vibrato skills, presented a lively and enthusiastic horse racing scene in front of us.

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"The Song of the Buried Flowers"

"The Song of the Buried Flowers" was originally the twenty-seventh chapter of the novel "A Dream of Red Mansions" by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin An ancient poem recited by the heroine Lin Daiyu.

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"Guangming Xing"

The instrumental music "Guangming Xing" is an erhu solo composed by Liu Tianhua in the spring of 1931. It is an inspiring song. march. The music is magnificent, the melody is bright and firm, and the rhythm is elastic. When Liu Tianhua composed this piece, he once said: "Because foreigners say that our country's music is sluggish, I wrote this piece to prove their error." The horn-like tone composed of the decomposition of the main chord plays a dominant role in the music. For the first time in this piece of music, the author uses a highly functional modulation of the fifth degree relationship. The tonality is bright, and the change of tone areas is also very colorful. The whole song sings the praises of the warriors who pursue light and the light they pursue.

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"Birds on the Empty Mountain"

"Birds on the Empty Mountain" is an erhu solo composed by Liu Tianhua. The first draft was written in 1918, and it was completed ten years later finalized. The title is taken from a poem by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty: "There are no people in the empty mountain, but you can hear people's voices." In this piece, Liu Tianhua creatively used the three-stringed opera-style imitation technique to depict the beautiful artistic conception of deep mountains and deep valleys with hundreds of birds singing. It is a very vivid work. In 1993, he won the "Chinese 20th Century Music Classic Award" from the Chinese National Culture Promotion Association.

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"Night on the Prairie"

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"Good Night"

"Good Night", original name "New Year's Eve Little Sing" is an erhu piece improvised by Liu Tianhua on New Year's Eve in 1928. It is the piece of music that took the shortest time to write in Liu Tianhua's music career. The whole song has a single, lyrical, fresh and bright image, which gives people a sense of contentment and vividly depicts the joyful mood of the author and his friends rejoicing in staying up late and spending a good night together.

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"Spring Scenes in the South of the Yangtze River"

Spring Scenes in the South of the Yangtze River was composed by Zhu Changyao himself. The music is mainly composed of the Suzhou folk song "Dajiu Lian".

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"Listening to the Pine"

"Listening to the Pine", also known as "Listening to the Song", is an erhu solo composed by Chinese folk musician A Bing . The content seems to be a description of Yue Fei, the great patriotic general of the Song Dynasty. The music borrows objects from the pines and chants. While praising the national hero Yue Fei's military power, it also pours out his upright character and firm and confident will. It praises the Chinese people's national integrity as noble as green pine trees, their strong will to fight as strong as steel and the heroes who defeat the enemy. spirit. The whole song is bold, powerful and can be called a musical treasure.

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"Shu Township Erhu"