"On the Moonlit Spring Evening at a Flowery River" is one of the most famous Chinese traditional music works. It had been popular before 1875, and has become one of the masterpieces in the treasury of Chinese classical music.
It was originally named "Pipa tuned Flutes and Drums at Dusk", and was adapted by Liu Yaozhang, a member of Shanghai's Datong Music Conservatory and renamed by Zheng Jinwen in 1930.
The understated melody, the fluid rhythmical meter, the ingenious subtlety, together with random orchestration, combine to paint a tranquil scene of a river on a moonlit night in spring, and is paean of praise to the countryside south of the Yangtze River.
It was originally named "Pipa tuned Flutes and Drums at Dusk", and was adapted by Liu Yaozhang, a member of Shanghai's Datong Music Conservatory and renamed by Zheng Jinwen in 1930.
The understated melody, the fluid rhythmical meter, the ingenious subtlety, together with random orchestration, combine to paint a tranquil scene of a river on a moonlit night in spring, and is paean of praise to the countryside south of the Yangtze River.
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