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This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)

Life & Notes2007.10.16
This Issue’s Music: Yeliya Girl (Tong Ang)
A few days ago I saw UNIC post Tong Ange’s “Keep the Roots” (“把根留住”), and it stirred up nostalgia — this was one of the songs I used to hear a lot as a child. Speaking of which, when I was very little (probably in the early 90s, anyway very little, about not yet in elementary school), I often went out with my parents to socialize over meals, and we’d often end up singing karaoke. We also sang at home sometimes. I remember that back then it was played on those huge LD discs; CDs seemed only just to be coming into common use. “Keep the Roots” seems to have…
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2007年10月16日
This Episode’s Music: Bandari: Childhood

Life & Notes2007.09.29
This Episode’s Music: Bandari: Childhood
Hearing this piece of music is what made me remember that this was actually the piece I had intended to put on the blog last summer vacation; at the time, though, I searched for it on Baidu for ages and still couldn’t find it, so I put it aside. Later, when I posted Bandari’s “A Night in the Forest,” I was listening to it on “Heat Is On,” and recently, when I used WMP to shuffle through all the music on my hard drive, I happened to hear this piece, and it stirred up memories. Then I casually searched for it and, amazingly, found a link, so here it is….
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2007年9月29日
This Issue’s Music: The Wanderer’s Song of Joy from the Arab Song Feast

Life & Notes2007.09.23
This Issue’s Music: The Wanderer’s Song of Joy from the Arab Song Feast
Suddenly I discovered that Google Page is usable again, so I don’t have to go to the trouble of finding music. Better just post an old ready-made one I’ve wanted to use for a while: From “The Wanderer’s Song of Joy” in *Arabian Song Feast*. They say Arabic music pays extremely close attention to rhythm, and its tonalities are bizarre; that does seem to be the case. Generally speaking, I don’t usually listen to such intense music, but once in a while it’s not bad. Might, might~~ Aoo aoo~~
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2007年9月23日
This Episode’s Music: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, 6. Gigue (Jig)

Life & Notes2007.09.16
This Episode’s Music: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, 6. Gigue (Jig)
Original: http://bbs.llldns.com/music/nipper/classics/001/001.mp3 Lately I’ve been listening to Bach’s various violins and cellos, especially including the legendary six Unaccompanied Cello Suites, and they really are excellent. Some pieces don’t especially strike me when I listen to a single movement on its own, but after listening to unaccompanied cello for a while in succession, I get a kind of marvelous feeling, as if I’ve been hurled into another world…… Unfortunately, the CD I bought actually has a bad sector, and just by chance the last two pieces won’t play, which is pretty depressing…… I searched online for quite a while, but couldn’t find what I was looking for. It seems that Baidu…
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2007年9月16日
This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea

Life & Notes2007.09.08
This Issue’s Music: The Season of Love – from The Time Traveler Who Left My Heart in the Aegean Sea
Season of Love – excerpted from "Time Traveler: My Heart Remains in the Aegean Sea" Marching Season From "Aphrodite Greece" (or still from "Heat Is On") Latest Comments Gucha 2007-09-20 22:59:16 [Reply] I thought I should mention this: I heard that this piece comes from the new-age electronic music master Yanni, and that the original version should be "Large-Scale Modern Electronic Instrument Concert." So I later went and bought two of Yanni’s CDs (http://www.amazon.cn/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu601517). Sure enough, all the pieces were large-scale electronic music, with this one alone still being a piano solo. It has now been found that this piece is taken from 1987’s Private Collection: Piano Solo 2,…
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2007年9月8日
This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement

Life & Notes2007.09.01
This Issue’s Music: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Fourth Movement
I like to claim that I enjoy classical music, but that seems rather untrue—not only am I woefully lacking in knowledge about classical music, I in fact do not even like what is supposedly classical music’s highest form: the symphony. In truth, the classical-music figures I like are headed by Bach, and my preferred genre is the concerto—that is, music centered on one instrument such as the violin, cello, organ, piano, harpsichord, or flute, with several other instruments or the piano in a supporting role. I also quite like solo piano or solo string pieces, and from time to time I will listen to choral works; as for symphonies performed…
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2007年9月1日
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music

Life & Notes2007.08.26
This Issue’s Music: The Legend of Sword and Fairy Original Soundtrack, Battle Music
I first saw people playing the earliest Chinese-language 95 version of *Xianjian* at someone else’s home, and afterward I bought the just-released 98 “Romantic Edition” myself. *Xianjian* is the only RPG I’ve played no fewer than three times (I can’t remember exactly how many times), and even now I’m still willing to play through it again. The most recent time I replayed *Xianjian* was when the TV drama adaptation aired and I simply couldn’t stand it anymore, so I played it again. Let me stress once more: absolutely do not watch the *Xianjian* TV drama, or if you do, do not connect it with *The Legend of Sword and Fairy*…… …
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2007年8月26日
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope

Life & Notes2007.08.02
This Issue’s Music: the Music of “Civilization” CivIIIAncEurope
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/CivIIIAncEurope.mp3 I still haven’t played any games since the start of this summer vacation, and I’m really depressed…… The long-awaited Heroes of Might and Magic 5: Hammers of Fate still hasn’t appeared; Sword and Fairy 4, which I had preordered early on at Amazon.cn, has already been delivered to Beijing, but now I’m in Shanghai…… As for Civilization, I’ve been playing it far too much…… Today I discovered that GooglePage has been restored, and for the time being I couldn’t find a place to upload music. I noticed that there were already two background tracks from Civilization uploaded there, so I’m just casually posting one of them here. This piece…
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2007年8月2日
This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Life & Notes2007.07.25
This Issue’s Music: БРАТЬЯ (Burāchiya) (Brothers) (Fullmetal Alchemist)
http://dl.egchina.com/ztt/wupeng/music/3.wma БРАТЬЯ (ブラーチヤ)（Brothers） Full Metal Alchemist Original （Fullmetal Alchemist） Speaking of Russian songs, my earliest exposure to Russian songs was in Japanese anime. I seem to remember that a long time ago I once posted here a song called “Grassland, oh grassland,” which was also Russian music from a Japanese anime, but I can’t find it now. Fullmetal Alchemist is the Japanese TV anime I recommend most highly (while Miyazaki Hayao is for theatrical anime). Its plot, substance, visuals, and soundtrack are all excellent. This Russian song is one of its insert songs, and quite a classic one at that. I couldn’t find a fast link online, so this will…
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2007年7月25日
This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon

Life & Notes2007.07.21
This Issue’s Music: Pachelbel, Canon
http://www.wmlife.cn/UploadFile/_wmlife_audio/audioupload/instrument/0703/canon/1.wma Chamber orchestra version Flute version http://www.wmlife.cn/UploadFile/_wmlife_audio/audioupload/instrument/0703/canon/2.wma From the URL above, 1.wma through 15.wma are all various versions of the Canon; the catalog is here: http://www.amazon.cn/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu512560&source=w-90003370
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2007年7月21日