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Date: | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:00:02 +0800 |
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I am a Chinese in Hong Kong and I love classical music, of course, and
occasionally listen to what you called "Chinese" music. I am interesting
in your long discussion in Chinese Music. The followings are my opinions:
1. First of all, I have not investigate into either westen or chinese
classical music. I only base on my experience in listening music.
2. What types of chinese music, what piece of chinese music have you
listened to? Some types of chinese music are ancient music which may
have an age of more than 1500 years. The no of pieces of ancient
music is limited but they are very popular among Chinese. Most Chinese
music we heard today were written by modern composers from Ching
Dynasty (just before 1900 to nowadays).
3. I don't think western composer can write music that are similar
to chinese ancient music. (Chinese ancient music usually were written
for snigle or a couple of musical instruments, not for large orchestra.)
4. To my listening experience, some chinese music written in 1940s
to 1960s are very similar to those music written by Tchaikovsky. May
be due to the influence of USSR to China during these years. (eg The
Butterfly Lover Violin Concerto, Yellow River Piano Concerto compared
with Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, for example) I think those Chinese
composer had learnt from those Russian composers because at that
time, chinese composers could only learnt and listened to Russian's
music. Some chinese composers or musicans had studied in USSR at
around 40s to 60s..
5. I have heard from a piano teacher that just playing the black
keys on the piano can produce chinese-like music. (You may try.
My experience, it is true.) There is possible for western composer
occasionally write chinese-like music. (Puccini had listened to
Chinese Opera before writing Tuarandot. He had use the melody of
Jasmine Flower in this opera. Mahler, I believed he would have research
on chinese music before writing "The song of the Earth".
6. Bach or Handel also wrote music in style of German, French and
Poland. Beethoven wrote Turkish music. Why not others?
7. It is highly recommended to listen to those CDs labeled Hugo from
Hong Kong. The performance and recording are rated as premium.
Enjoy listening
Lewis, Hong Kong
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