The first movement "Drink Poison to Quench Thirst", the lyrics are selected from Li Bai's Elegy;
The second movement "Lonely Shadow in Cold Autumn", the lyrics are selected from Qian Qi's "Long Autumn Night";
The third movement "Youth", the lyrics are selected from Li Bai's nameless poems;
The fourth movement "Beauty", the lyrics are selected from Li Bai's "Lotus Picking Song";
The fifth movement "Spring Drunk", the lyrics are selected from Li Bai's "Spring Drunk";
The sixth movement "Farewell", the lyrics are selected from Meng Haoran's "Housewives' Houses" and Wang Wei's "Farewell".
Link: Song of the Earth is a very unique work in gustav mahler's entire symphonic music literature. In this work, Mahler finally perfectly combines the two major music genres used in his life-symphony and art songs. /kloc-in the summer of 0/907, he created seven German-translated Tang poems by Li Bai, Qian Qi (who was mistaken for Zhang Ji, but recently we confirmed it as Qian Qi), Meng Haoran and Wang Wei in Hans Berg's The Flute in China.