Beijing Classical Music Ensemble

[jatcheo]

miauuu!! (=^.^=)

[GomoGomoNoRocket]

Ahh..This remind me of Lunar New year..I always heard them during those time of the year..Best time of the YEAR!!

[stbridgetscross]

I bought their cd in a charity shop, and fell in love with chinese music , it captures so much about life, its pure magic. I lost the cd, so its great to see this group on you tube.

[vkorchnoifan]

Can anyone name the instruments ?

[quinzerb]

is maith liom

[TonyPstunts]

How could ANYONE not like this? That was sublime! HAO!

[limitgo]

what's the title of this song?

[trafficvinyl]

@limitgo 喜洋洋 (Xǐ yángyáng)

[francajesu]

太好了！ 你门把整个春天带来这个充满不安的世界！

[burningsinews]

fucking amazing song and the instruments sound beautiful especially the cimbalo looking one

[parakitos]

@burningsinews the cembalo is a yangqin :)

[Imforeverone88]

I love that deeply traditional Chinese twang- beautiful.

[AngelxxGurl]

theyre good

[tanchushu]

oh, my god... this music played every spring festival on CCTV...

[STOCKTONLEGEND]

i could picture a bunch of little midgets dancing in circles lol

[JMRBAQ]

Search: The Chieftains in China; They plays with this ensemble this song. ¡Amazing mix! Irish and chinese folk.

[neopostretro]

Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting it!

[erichertsens]

whow, :-), masters at work

[fatgonzalez]

beautiful....blessing-maravill­oso

[DJFozter]

It's in Mixolydian, but a lot of it is pentatonic too

[yahohoandbottleofrum]

simply nice!

[4everdancer18]

this was played very well bravo!!!!

[ZINCOVIX8754]

god i love this.thanks for the upload

[birdandthe]

ANYONE KNOW ANY CDS OF THESE GUYS?

[summonshire]

Scale does not matter, as long as the music is there. Why don't you think like this, that all music is in the chromatic scale? haha, relax, man, just enjoy the music.

[ZINCOVIX]

thanks u so much for this uplaod

[MoroccanSword]

@tremendo67 this not scale minor, you have to made an ear surgery if you really think it's minor scale lol this is pentatonic scale

[mimaxworld]

@MoroccanSword its not only pentatonic because its asian...

[SilencingSin]

dude. are you retarded? Minor scales make depressing music, and major scales make happy music.

[MoroccanSword]

fuck western music scale, this the good natural music

[peterbug]

you are a fucking retard! eat my shit

[devilhunterred]

LOL this song is always played during Chinese New Year :P

I hear it in Hong Kong and Chinese shopping malls during Chinese New Year all the time.

[Limmy59]

The song is fast leh..I know how to play but not that fast =.='' The song is in my NUS Exam.. The 1st one is Di Zi (flute), 2nd is Er Hu, 3rd is Yang Qing, 4th is Pipa.. Btw, thanks for posting (:

[BardofCornwall]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[khatpandwa]

very nice performance

[Untemperedsteel]

The Irish folk music group, The Chieftains, played this song, with a group of Chinese musicians during a visit to China in the 80's.

What is this tune called?

[CainNightweaver]

o3o Love it. ~

[quinzerb]

def think the English copied u people , great music , wat u call that flute like instrument ? great stuff , would luv 2 hear more " peace

[parakitos]

@quinzerb it's a dizi :)

[gabydewilde]

nice

[787310]

i think the guy on the right is flute

the 2nd is Erhu

the 3rd i dont know what its called

and the fourth is a pipa

i think

[amorolic]

the third is 扬琴，a chinese classic instrument similar to dulcimer.

[burningsinews]

does this song has an author or its just a chinese standard folk song?

[devilhunterred]

This music is played ALL THE TIME during Chinese New Year LOL.

[TAKACH25]

録音が良くありません。　せっかくの楽器の音の良さが台無しです。　広域が少し耳障りな音になっています。　不快感を与えてしまってそんをしてしまいます。　広域の歪みと言うのは低域と違い判断が難しいです。　音響工学的に解析しましょう。　飯野隆行

[steveho75]

Can you take a video of chinese cantonese musicans playing a piece like this.

Steve

[singy1980]

beautiful performance and musical piece!

[sanduuuu]

Excellent!

Do you happen to know the names of these instruments?

The only one I think I recognise is the erhu, 2nd to the left...

[darthsion71]

from left to right - dizi (small flute), yangqin (hammered dulcimer),erhu (fiddle thingy), pipa (stringed lute thing)

[01jocooper]

Mmmmmm heterophonic :)

[SidewalkFrequencies]

very nicely done. music is the best.

[jesuis88]

wow very nice! dang....

[xdNERDbx]

4 ppl can make like

hundred and hundred of ppl is playin!

So niceeee!

[Kikealbacete]

Bravo!!!!!

[shecutess]

hey andrew how can i get this music!

[Kennraie]

plz tell us!!

[elklausito]

nice track!

[PunkWaterDragonGirl]

Whenever I hear this song, I feel like im in the 17th century, in an Old but On going Chinese Festival, where people are performing Kung Fu, Selling Food and little children wearing Traditional Chinese Outfits. This song describes so many happy and great things.

[kianhui89]

really nice song... since china has thousands years history.. :) i like western and Chinese classic both

[isanese]

cool I really like this song. could somebody let me know this song's name?

[lvzhendong]

its chinese name is 喜洋洋，the english translation probably is "Boisterous elation", if u can't find it with the english name, just copy and paste the chinese one

[thinkinrich]

very beautiful

[cat2539]

amazing

[Dragondecendent]

There is an old Chinese saying,"Cow Eat Roses"

implying feeding cow with roses is a big waste, because cow does not appreciate the beauty of roses. So cow better stick with grass and Sinatraandaerosmith better stick with western music.

[sinatraandaerosmith]

Yes, a lot of people don't like very high pitches! not a big fan of Emma Kirkby etc either! Too high man. Prefer Callas. The Chinese went crazy for Western music in 1911+, after the country opened up. Chinese composers went o/s and brought back new ideas. A lot of newer music incorporated all this.

[rex1KILLER]

0,o this is a old song way before 1900s

[cacalacapoo]

no It was composed by Liu Mingyuan.

[isanese]

have many people in the world. So not strangely if culture will difference. don't compare.

[tehUpdater]

yay

[acekingviper]

beautiful music !!!!

[globetrotter747]

amazing i love Chinese music

[sowhatt68]

Great !! Awsome music, love it !!

[sinatraandaerosmith]

The country was very formal for thousand of years, and musicians were apparently regarded as beneath some people. Maybe they were brushed away after a few songs, when the ruler went back to plotting attacks on neighbouring states, so the music didn't get a chance to develop: deeper notes are more serious. Mozart wrote low notes as well as high ones!

[zhuangzhoumengdie]

plotting attacks on neighbouring states?

Where did you learn this biased information. Give evidence if you want to share opinion. China has particularly been a peaceful country,living in the long shadows of being insulted by invaders and big mouths like you.

[sinatraandaerosmith]

er, Sun Tsu, heard of him?

[MikhailBakunin]

I really think you should stick to western music, bub. I think the complexity of such an ancient and powerful culture has confused you a little. The depth or heighth of the notes has nothing to do with whether or not this is a complex and interesting work of art.

Oh, and stick to music, too. Because your knowledge of history is _actually_ laughable.

One too many kung-fu movies.

[AngelKuja]

stfu mik

[cacalacapoo]

hahaha music didn't get to develop??? haha you're so stupid, please shut up.

[camuimsgackt]

Don't spam. - Former administrator

It's one thing to say something and get your point across. And yes. Music does develop. From all the way back since bible times. Music changes, gets new standards all the time. Classical however has a sturdy foundation, and it's likely not to change. Thank you.

[cacalacapoo]

Are you talking about western classical having a sturdy foundation? What's not to change? Anyone that knows anything about music knows that the "foundation" you speak of is built upon and remolded time and time again. I don't mind speaking my mind to idiots that don't know their limits, and ones that don't even have any common sense. Thank, You.

[fluorescence]

That "big instrument" in the middle is a yangqin (扬琴), or hammered dulcimer. :)

[creamsodaluvr]

This is awesome! XD I love chinese and japanese music, I've never seen that big instrument in the middle, does anybody know what it's called? please and thank you! :)

[harrisonyld]

I believe the big one is called Yangqin(扬琴).

[creamsodaluvr]

xD omg, it's been over a month and i FINALLY get my answer!!! thank you so very much!

[iamendogirl]

It is nice to view the performance of Chinese music here.

[aaroncurley]

there are different kind of chinese music

[coiners]

I'm sorry, sinatraandaerosmith, and please, don't take no offence, but that's one of the stupidest opinions I've ever heard.

[icestar500]

guy has a point high pitches hurt my ears after a while

[combax]

that's like saying, "too much moonlight sonata makes me depressed after a while", or "too much metallica hurts my head after a while".

You don't judge an entire civilization's music on a single track OR a single genre. It's like an ignoramus believing "Hit me baby one more time" is the end all and be all of western music.

[icestar500]

i was just high pitches hurt MY ears i dont like women ensembles for to long cause of that high pitches i like it itjust hurts pyhsically after awhile wasnt sayin ganything bout that

[Eggychan]

love this

[achraf1986]

omg Wonderfullllllll T_T

[AngelKuja]

I love this! Beautiful music.

[RandomTask3000]

I just can't decide which of these instruments is my favorite.

[chinchillalove145]

da ruan is also another instrument for the lower ranges too. my friend plays it and i play yang qin

[PaddieFunk]

the song is fuckin awesome but it is lacking of an instrument in the bass range

[koolsht]

you shouldn't use western aesthetics to judge music from other cultures. Having different voices/instruments in different registers, and supporting higher melodies with a low voice/instrument is a European idea. recently the Chinese have become quite interested in this western idea, and some traditional instruments have been modified to fill in the lower ranges. (although some don't work well, like the bass-range huqin(2-string fiddles). most of the time they just use a cello :P)

[fobbyrice]

i agree with you. but pipa, can be a small sub. zhong ruan is another. but cello and the bass r more common in the orchestras.

[koolsht]

ah, sorry, I wasn't being clear before. I meant that the traditional Chinese bowed string instrument, the huqin, becomes very awkward to play when they are made to be big enough to sound so low. So when ppl want to have a low range bowed string instrument in a Chinese ensemble, they usually just go for a cello. The la ruan, which looks like a cross between cello and da ruan, is also possible, but it seems to be a lot less popular than the cello. I've only seen it being used once.

[Xezlec]

@koolsht I'm no expert, so I'm not saying you're wrong, but it is hard for me to comprehend how balance could be a uniquely European concept. It's physically unpleasant to listen to something that just hits one little range of frequencies all the time. Your ears start to hurt a little, especially if there's no background noise. Not saying the music isn't pretty, but my ears feel weird afterward. Maybe European ears are just built differently or something. I dunno.

[koolsht]

@Xezlec Of course balance is not a uniquely European concept, but _what_ to balance and _how_ to balance differs between cultures and between periods of time, and even between sub-cultures. You don't have to like every kind of music out there. I think everybody can name a few kinds of music that hurts their ears. It all depends on what you're used to hearing. I think it's important just to try different things with an open mind, and not measure everything by the same yard stick.

[koolsht]

@koolsht and I must say that I'm surprised that my 2-year-old comment is still getting replies, and that this video has gotten quite a few views. It used to be an obscure video of an obscure subject with only a few views. Now it even attracted a few trolls wandering around here :D Serious commenters beware

[marcusyuguang]

@koolsht

Chinese instruments often weren't played together, as they were more of a scholarly, meditative confucian thing to play an instument and have a sip of green tea (by yourself). So, bass instruments really didn't pose much use really. (With the exception of flower houses and sing song girls, basically entertainment)

[koolsht]

@marcusyuguang that's a...extremely generalizing way to put the music of a vast country with a few thousand years of history, into a very small box. There are many, many more kinds of Chinese music than just the ones that you mentioned, and quite a few of them involves a combination of different instruments playing together.

[bigfish12345]

peacefuly music ... <3

[km1848]

Wonderful joyful music. Thank you for posting.

[Dartha999]

i enjoy listening while drinking strong black tea.

[redsoxrrule670]

haha for some reason this reminds me of "the avatar" it's so upbeat and happy like the music when aang gets happy.

[andresurprise]

that show is boss. this song is hella clean too.

[RikuIshmaru]

I WANNA JUST PARTY TO THIS SONG! Its awsome!

[tliang011]

It does a great job in capturing the joyful, exuberant, and selfless spirit of the Chinese peasants. I think this song was trying to portray the feeling right after a great harvest perhaps?

[tliang011]

This song is famous. A very traditional one from the 50s(?) glorifying the village life.

[Joyce7snow]

What a great performance!!I like it..^^I also chinese orchestra member at school in Malaysia,but our team does not play well as this perform..this is really fast and very nice...^^But if it have the chinese intrusment that I play "Lui Qing" that will be more awsome!!thanks for uploading this video:)keep it up!!

[PinkPanthress]

Lovely! I enjoyed listening! ^_^

[ronaldmah]

This performance is excellent, it is simple and clear and happness , Score is A + from Canada

[adistein]

What a wonderful song!!! Tai hao le! wo hen xihuan zhi! :) a great composition and very good to listen at!

[awtsang234]

A wonderful piece, anyone knows the name?

[tgbhu123]

the name is 喜洋洋(xi yang yang), means very happy.

[Sweetaznchic62102]

This song is very joyful.^_^ Thanks for uploading the video!:)

[kkhadka]

dude aahhshaddap u suck

[aahhhshaddap]

this is off the hoooook. these dudes are goin dumb with these ancient bangers. they're making a new meaning to the c-walk dance--china walk.

[halskarl]

if you don't like it then just don't watch it. and we don't need such comments around.

[cacalacapoo]

you give a new meaning to an uncultured dickwad...

[afrojames]

hahahaha, that's cool