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MUSIC COMPARISON

MUSIC COMPARISON. Purple 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

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MUSIC COMPARISON

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  1. MUSIC COMPARISON Purple Bamboo Melody to Bright Sheng’s Shanghai Overture

  2. CHINA • 2nd largest country by land mass • Population: 1,361,170,000 • 91.51% Han Chinese • 34 provinces

  3. Dialects: Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka • Most common dialect: Mandarin • Borders 14 countries, and shares maritime borders with 4 others

  4. The People’s Republic of China ever since 1959 • Went through movements like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

  5. Ancient China was based on dynasties and was very advanced at the time • Influenced many of the surrounding countries

  6. Traditional Chinese instruments were the predecessors of many others • Guzheng (古箏): Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Japanese koto

  7. Traditional Chinese Instruments • Erhu (二胡) • Pipa (琵琶) • Zheng or guzheng (古箏) • Yangqin (揚琴)

  8. ERHU(二胡) • Spike-fiddle of the huqin family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE

  9. PIPA (琵琶) • Pear-shaped lute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA

  10. ZHENG or guzheng (古箏) • A zither with movable frets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bof1GlvAo0

  11. YANGQIN (揚琴) • A hammered dulcimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgx5MyLhm8

  12. Purple Bamboo Melody (紫竹调) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68

  13. BRIGHT sHENG (Sheng Zong-Liang) • Born in Shanghai, December 1955 • Sent to Qinghai (near Tibet) during Cultural Revolution • Moved to America 1982

  14. 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

  15. INFLUENCES • Chinese folk music • Béla Bartók, a Hungarian composer

  16. NOTABLE WORKS • Madame Mao • Shanghai Overture • The Song and Dance of Tears • Nanking! Nanking! • China Dreams

  17. SHANGHAI OVERTURE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g

  18. 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

  19. DIFFERENCES • Instrumentation (traditional Chinese vs. classical symphony instruments) • Use of dynamics • Variations of the style

  20. THE END 結束

  21. WORKS CITED http://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-Sheng http://www.brightsheng.com/ http://www.brightsheng.com/programnotes/Shanghaioverture.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g

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