Phases of the moon : traditional Chinese music.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Price, Earl.

Bai, Juyi, 772-846.

Peng, Xiuwen, conductor.

Zhong yang ren min guang bo dian tai (Beijing, China). Min zu yue tuan, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--China.

Music.

China.

Folk music--China.

Folk music.

Ethnic music recordings--China.

Local Subjects:

Ethnic music recordings--China.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Traditional Chinese music.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : CBS, [1988]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

The moon mirrored in the pool / composed by Hua Yanjun (with Wang Guotong, erhu. 5:11)

The moon on high : traditional (12:07)

Days of emancipation / composed by Zhu Jianer (2:40)

Dance of the Yao people / composed by Liu Tieshan and Mao Yüan (6:06)

Flowing water : Peking opera melody / composed by Gu Guanren (Traditional Instruments Orchestra of the Central Conservatory. 3:11)

Tashwayi : Uygur folk music / arranged by Khurban Ibrahin (Orchestra of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 5:00)

Spring on the Pamir Plateau / composed by Li Tatong (Li Tatong, dizi. 3:23)

Purple bamboo melody : folk music / arranged by Ma Shenglong (combined orchestras of the Shanghai Philharmonic Society and the Peking Opera Theatre of Shanghai. 2:39)

Dancing in the moonlight : folk music of the Axi nationality / arranged by Peng Xiuwen (2:09)

Song of the herdsmen : folk song of the Mongolian nationality / arranged by Huang Xiaofei (Traditional Instruments Orchestra of the Central Conservatory ; Huang Xiaofei, conductor. 6:06)

Spring on a moonlit river : traditional (with Zhang Tasen, pipa. 9:24).

Participant:

Performed principally by the Central Broadcasting Traditional Instruments Orchestra, conducted by Peng Xiuwen.

Notes:

Compiled by Earl Price.

Recorded principally in 1980 by the China Record Company. The 7th and 8th works recorded earlier, with monophonic sound.

Compact disc.

Analog recordings.

Issued in 1981 on analog disc (CBS Masterworks: M 36705) and cassette (CBS Masterworks: MT 36705).

"Produced by the China Record Company"--Container back.

Program notes by Earl Price; further notes from the China Record Company including brief notes on the composers, performers and instruments; and a complete poem in English translation by Bo [or Bai] Juyi, including an introductory note on the circumstances which inspired him to write the poem (19 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

OCLC:

29438870

Publisher Number:

7464367052

MK 36705 CBS

M 36705 CBS Masterworks

MT 36705 CBS Masterworks