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Roving Exhibition - A Rendezvous with the Guqin

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Three Poems by the Drunken Li Bai (excerpt)
Tse Chun-yan (2017) 

 

This piece depicts Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai writing a set of three famous poems The Tune of Qingping while drunk for Emperor Xuanzong and Lady Yang during their visit to the peony garden. The poems were then set to music and sung by the court musician Li Guinian. A special hemitonic pentatonic scale found in past court music is intermittently used in the guqin and xiao parts, creating an interesting contrast to the elegant main melody.

 

Vocal: Chan Chak-lui
Guqin (silk strings): Tse Chun-yan
Xiao: Ken Wu Yun-kan