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This is an own made CD of Chinese Guzheng Music, chinese zither, of ancient traditional chinese music.
The instrument nowadays has mostly 21 strings, which are fixed on bridges. The total size of the body is up to 170 cm. The tonation is pentatonic in a 5 tone octave, but can varify from the place played in China and the origin of the written songs. The guzheng is played by 2 hands each with 4 fingers and special finger tips.
On the CD:
We have started with one minute of relaxing water sound and traditional famous melodies and songs digitally recorded.
Available on request, we can mail to you.
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F L O W I N G H A N D S
GUZHENG MUSIC
Songs:
01 Intro Water 1:32
02 Bells on the Parfume Mountain 5:29
03 Flower of Women 4:14
04 Spring in the Snow Mountain 4:03
05 Sunrise in the Mongolian Grassland 4:32
06 Story from the Village 4:37
07 Lifting the Weddingveil 2:34
08 Plum Blossom 7:19
09 Jasmine Flower 3:20
10 Red Stone Dream from Hongloumeng 5:20
11 I have a Dream 3:47
12 Stich golden Plate 3:24
13 Travelling Song 4:15
14 Evening on the Fisherboat 3:34
15 Relaxing Water 1:30
Total Time: 59:30
Guzheng: Chinese Student
Recording, Mastering & Layout: Christian Loosen
Copyright und Urheberrechte 2006
Düsseldorf, Germany
Copying in any kind prohibited. Vervielfältigung
jeglicher Art nicht gestattet.
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More about the instrument:
Guzheng, also known as Chinese Zither, is a plucked-string musical instrument with over 2500-year history. Among all Chinese traditional musical instruments, guzheng has the most beautiful sounds and receives the most popularity in the world.
Zheng (Guzheng) is build with a special wooden sound body with strings arched across movable bridges along the length of the instrument for the purpose of tuning. In the early times the zheng had 5 string; later on developed into 12 to 13 strings in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907AD) and 16 strings in the Song and Ming dynasty (from the 10th to 15th century). The present day zheng usually has 21-25 strings.
The guzheng's pentatonic scale is tuned to Do, Re, Mi, So and La, but Fa and Ti can also be produced by pressing the strings to the left of the bridges.
The player plucks the strings with the right hand and touches the strings with the left hand to produce the desired pitch and create subtle tones and ornaments.
Well known pieces for the instrument include Yu Zhou Chang Wan (Singing at night on fishing boat), Gao Shan Liu Shui (High mountains flowing water) and Han Gong Qiu Yue (Han palace autumn moon).
Over long history of Chinese culture, people from various nationalities and cultural backgrounds have developed many different styles of guzheng and guzheng music. The modern Guzheng, japanese Koto, korean Kayagum, vietnamese DanTranh and mongolian Yatag are developed from the traditional Chinese zheng, making it an extremely important music element for Asian culture. Similar sound, but different instrument is the Guqin, which has no bridges and only 7 strings.
Every style or genre of the guzheng music is also a symbol of the people who resided in that region. The northern style includes sub-styles such as Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi; and the southern style includes sub-styles namely Canton, Chaozhou, Hakka, and Zhejiang.
The sound of the guzheng can express the scenic countryside, a cascading waterfall, breeze, rain, thunder, and so on. People also express their feelings through the guzheng.
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