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Music of This Issue: “A Torrential Downpour,” from the Belikaden Ensemble’s “Subverting Ireland”

Life & Notes2007.07.16
Music of This Issue: “A Torrential Downpour,” from the Belikaden Ensemble’s “Subverting Ireland”
http://www.mhcnt.sh.cn/Culture/Family_network/kh/music/5.wma On Baidu MP3, searching for “Beli Caden Ensemble” turns up only this one track, and the sound quality is terribly poor. Make do with it~ Also, I uploaded a piece called “Voyage” myself to test Blogbus’s file-upload function; maybe one day I’ll delete it, but I’ll link it here for now: http://mwi.blogbus.com/files/11841556430.mp3 Latest Comments UNIC 2007-07-17 17:47:10 Anonymous 220.171.183.101 [Reply] http://www.weimei.org/forum/content/280968 There’s something here…. Good stuff, neoclassicism has strong vitality, growing vigorously!~~~~ I like it! Like it!!!!!!! UNIC 2007-07-17 17:50:00 Anonymous 220.171.183.101 [Reply] http://www.aiyin.cn/html/25/1425-11221.html I can’t download this one; I don’t know whether you can. Anyway my Xunlei is broken, and “Save As” doesn’t work. UNIC…
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2007年7月16日
Music for This Issue: Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani

Life & Notes2007.07.07
Music for This Issue: Kreisler: Prelude and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani
http://www.birdofparadise.info/mistic/zigeunerweisen/Track04.mp3 The previous piece was Heifetz and Kreisler on the violin—very good! Kreisler is hailed as the king of the violin, and he truly deserves the name. I looked around for a long time, but the quality of the Kreisler music linked online isn’t very good. The sound on this piece is much worse than what I heard, especially the piano accompaniment, which feels rather uncoordinated. Still, I’ll make do and post it here; choosing music—finding music—really is exhausting. In a few days, once I’ve bought some new CDs, I’ll say more~ Below I’ll also post two other pieces. Also, when I searched “Kreisler” on Baidu MP3, the main results…
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2007年7月7日
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)

Life & Notes2007.06.12
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
http://www1.hrbust.edu.cn/zuzhijigou/gonghui/music/03/01.mp3 A while ago I bought this CD set: http://www.joyo.com/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu610380 The key thing was seeing a user comment saying, “This set should be every bit as famous as Bandari,” and, combined with the over-the-top introduction, I ended up buying it. But this set of discs really disappointed me—it’s nothing more than taking some classical music or easy listening and adding bird calls or the sound of running water and such. And this is supposed to be the sound of heaven? This is supposed to be natural music? With so little creativity, it can’t even begin to catch up to Bandari and George Winston; now that is what you call natural…
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2007年6月12日
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)

Life & Notes2007.06.05
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln.mp3 Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in the style of a Tibetan folk song) http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musictxt/wangsheng.asp The one posted above is incomplete; the one below is long enough, though it’s a bit large, and it stuttered in the middle: http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln2.mp3 This installment of music continues the journey eastward; after the guqin, let’s go farther west and find a piece of Tibetan music. Tibet has always been one of the places I most yearn for. I seem to have posted a Tibetan folk song before. This time I originally wanted to do “A Sister Drum,” but listening to the “Six-Character Great Bright Mantra” inside A Sister Drum, I thought it would be better to…
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2007年6月5日
This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)

Life & Notes2007.05.31
This Issue’s Music: Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk (guqin)
http://xybbs.bonze.cn/cgl/cp/gzj/02.mp3 http://hyl510.googlepages.com/zuiyuchangwan.MP3 (It seems the Googlepage link can’t be reached…) What music should I pick for this issue? … Headache… There are too many pieces worth choosing from, and I don’t know where to begin. j Let’s keep looking for a few more pieces with an Eastern flavor. Last time I put up some Mongolian music; this time I should return to the Huaxia tradition, right: the guqin. “Drunken Fisherman Sings at Dusk”: http://baike.baidu.com/view/800984.htm “It sounds the same as ‘Fisherman’s Song’ but differs in mode. This piece truly has the meaning of laughing at the clouds and mist, and of drunken contentment in a world of wine; it is not…
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2007年5月31日
This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders

Life & Notes2007.05.27
This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders
http://www.hsjch.pudong-edu.sh.cn/冯静音乐风景线/My%20Webs/music-ziyuan/english%20sing-shx/sunshine%20on%20my%20shoulders.mp3 （female voice） http://host12.tyjh.tyc.edu.tw/~english2/english-songs/MP3/Sunshine-On-My-Shoulders.mp3 No matter how I listen to it, a café still seems to be the more suitable place for American country music. What songs used to be played at Plato Café? I’ve forgotten. Still, this one seems to make a slightly deeper impression—unless I’m mixing it up with even earlier memories? In my hazy recollection, folk songs like Blowing In The Wind and Your Cheat in Heart also seem to have been heard often in cafés. Latest comments Yiwu 2007-05-27 21:54:00 Ah… John Denver…… I can sing a rough version of this one. Such a gentle, comfortable tune. I have one of his albums. I always think…
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2007年5月27日
This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)

Life & Notes2007.05.22
This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)
http://www.58w.cn/SN_Music/UpLoadFile/2007-4/74340_200741764637506.mp3 All the previous ones were Western music; let’s switch to something Eastern. Choosing music is such a troublesome thing—I'll just click one at random: ——“After the ‘national treasure’ music maestro Zhang Hongguang once again poured his full efforts into the musical creation for dramas such as [Emperor Kangxi] and [Great Emperor Wu of Han], he has joined hands with the grassland music master Siriguleng to jointly release the NEW AGE original-ecology album [Yi·Wolf City]. For the first time, it combines the concept of the wolf with NEW AGE music. The first original-ecology album to describe grassland life and scenery with music rich in ethnic characteristics.” 04. Dawn on the…
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2007年5月22日
This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)

Life & Notes2007.05.05
This Issue’s Music: Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor for Strings (BWV 1052)
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/Bach-BWV1052.MP3 Bach: Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra in D minor (BWV 1052), first movement (Allegro) (conducted by Trevor Pinnock) It is said that Bach is one of the greatest composers in music history, second only to Beethoven in terms of his status in music history and his wide appeal among listeners today. Although I had long since heard of these great musicians by name, my first real encounter with Bach’s distinctiveness actually began with that famous work on logical paradoxes, Gödel, Escher, Bach. Indeed, Bach’s music is full of a sense of “circulation” (I don’t know how else to put it…), and its depth, harmony, and complexity can also…
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2007年5月5日
This Issue’s Music: George Winston – The Earth – Holding Your Hand

Life & Notes2007.04.29
This Issue’s Music: George Winston – The Earth – Holding Your Hand
http://hyl510.googlepages.com/04.MP3 George Winston: “Earth” George Winston: PLAIN 4. Put Your Hand in Mine / Waltz for a Little Girl Give Me Your Hand/La Valse Since I said my favorite instrument is the piano (though that is not entirely true; it depends on my mood), let me post a pure piano piece. Recently I’ve been listening to Royal Piano Classics, solo piano from the classical repertoire; it’s quite good. But considering that I should make the music I post as varied as possible, I chose a New Age piece. George Winston’s piano pieces generally do not emphasize piano technique, but are good at expressing the breath of nature and human feeling,…
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2007年4月29日
This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)

Life & Notes2007.04.18
This Issue’s Music: Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey)
http://www.ycnow.com/atts/200702/Music/45VpA4xH.MP3 The Eternal Harp 永恆的豎琴 1. Various – Medley (Traditional strathspey) A harp album I came across some time ago while looking for Irish music. If a flute is like the sound of wind, then the zither is like the sound of rain. Basically, that means I am, after all, an incarnation of rain. I’m not the sort of person who goes mad over music, but I do get a certain kind of feeling from it. Where that feeling comes from, I can’t quite say. This album is basically Celtic-style harp music. Some pieces are Irish folk music, others Scottish. They all sound pretty good, and I couldn’t decide what…
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2007年4月18日