My first thought when i saw the guzheng player was that she was Yuan Sha, I had to check the credits, to find out that it was Yuan Li playing, she looks so much like her sister now. She has come a long way.
As for using the Guzheng as a percussion instrument, it works well in the right piece, same goes for pipa and koto, a sound system with decent bass reproduction helps. A few modern composers have exploited the Asian zithers range of percussion effects.
really don't understand how he makes any instrument to be as a percussion. though it sounds harmony but not beautiful or classical, not serious music at all.
Consider the origins of so-called serious music. The violin derives from someone's concept of stretching animal sinew over a resonant chamber and stroking it with horse hair.
Tan Dun capitalizes on the 20th century emancipation of sound and composes quite seriously attainable, accessible, and enjoyable music.
I recall reading in a music history book that in a Chinese treatise on musical theory, dividing the octave into 12 steps could be done, but only by ''fudging' on the mathematical precision of some of the supposedly equal number of vibrations per second to make them fit. This did create a family of scales that
could flow into each other through modulation
formulae: i.e., the tempered tuning system of Western music. It was seen just as an interesting footnote to the science of acoustics.
Que simplicidad y que resultado, impresiona!
ang7751 4 months ago
My first thought when i saw the guzheng player was that she was Yuan Sha, I had to check the credits, to find out that it was Yuan Li playing, she looks so much like her sister now. She has come a long way.
As for using the Guzheng as a percussion instrument, it works well in the right piece, same goes for pipa and koto, a sound system with decent bass reproduction helps. A few modern composers have exploited the Asian zithers range of percussion effects.
ValExperimenter 6 months ago
I love Tan Dun's Conducting.. it's so off!! :)
phoenixman95 6 months ago
Amazing!
KyleHovatterTV 11 months ago
Wow...this music blows me away. What an arrangement and composition! Ony Tan Dun...his signature...
wikct2 1 year ago
Isn't the opening the same as his Ghost Opera 1st movement 4min 50sec?
chewhr 1 year ago
really don't understand how he makes any instrument to be as a percussion. though it sounds harmony but not beautiful or classical, not serious music at all.
melodiesong 2 years ago
@melodiesong
Consider the origins of so-called serious music. The violin derives from someone's concept of stretching animal sinew over a resonant chamber and stroking it with horse hair.
Tan Dun capitalizes on the 20th century emancipation of sound and composes quite seriously attainable, accessible, and enjoyable music.
ggalvanphd 1 year ago
I recall reading in a music history book that in a Chinese treatise on musical theory, dividing the octave into 12 steps could be done, but only by ''fudging' on the mathematical precision of some of the supposedly equal number of vibrations per second to make them fit. This did create a family of scales that
could flow into each other through modulation
formulae: i.e., the tempered tuning system of Western music. It was seen just as an interesting footnote to the science of acoustics.
bnaior 2 years ago
she look like her sister!
seniorwisdom 2 years ago
This is sooo COOL!
TomQuags93 2 years ago
where is the venue?
any performance information?
ngtszman 2 years ago