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Phases Of The Moon: Traditional Chinese Music

Phases Of The Moon: Traditional Chinese Music

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Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony
Category: Music

List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $4.84
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 reviews
Sales Rank: 6100

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 36705
UPC: 074643670524
EAN: 0074643670524
ASIN: B0000025JB

Release Date: October 25, 1990
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Tracks:

  • The Moon Mirrored in the Pool - Hua Yanjun
  • The Moon on High - Traditional
  • Days of Emancipation - Zhu Jianer
  • Dance of the Yao People - Tieshan, Liu
  • Peking Opera Melody: Flowing Water - Gu Guanren
  • Tashwayi
  • Spring on the Pamir Plateau - Li Tatong
  • Purple Bamboo Music
  • Dancing in the Moonlight
  • Song of the Herdsmen
  • Spring on a Moonlit River - Traditional

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Customer Reviews:   Read 12 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Great Starter CD for Traditional Chinese Music   September 4, 2008
Olivia
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was invited by my son's school to give a presentation on Chinese culture this past Chinese New Year (Feb 08). For music, I chose this CD and "Classical Chinese Folk Music". br /This is a great starter CD if you want to learn traditional Chinese music. The pieces are performed in the 60s 70s by a Chinese Orchestra using traditional instruments. The modernized music structures made it much more enjoyable (ambient) than the traditional way of playing - using fewer instruments, heavily ladden with emotional edge, due to Chinese music's moral or historical contents. That would have been much harder to swallow. br /Check out "Classical Chinese Folk Music" next, which follows closer to traditions, but still very enjoyable.


5 out of 5 stars Tradition Chinese Music   September 4, 2008
Mr. William D. Williams (Escondido, CA United States)
Another great album of Chinese themed music. Relaxing and reminicent of the oldest civilization on earth.


5 out of 5 stars very very good   January 10, 2008
Thomas P. Mcauliffe (Michigan)
My first Chinese music cd, I think this is excellant and I'm very glad I bought it, no disappontment at all.


4 out of 5 stars Modern Scores of Traditional Themes   October 30, 2007
Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I've been searching for a CD of uncompromising traditional/classical Chinese music. This is not it. Most of the tracks are 1950s and 1960s performances by The Chinese Broadcasting Traditional Instruments Orchestra, with up to 70 members indeed playing traditional instruments but not in traditional ensembles. Instead these are "orchestral" compositions of early Communist China, with obviously westernized musical structures. Still they are not all bad. In fact, a couple of tracks are quite enjoyable, equal to and rather comparable to the ballet suites of Aaron Copeland. On the other hand, a couple of tracks are pure Hollywood epic music, and for those misbegotten moons I'm deducted a star. But notice the price! If you have any taste for muiscal travel, go ahead, buy it! It's surely worth the chance.


4 out of 5 stars Quite enjoyable and varied   August 4, 2007
World Traveller (CT USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I wanted some music to accompany a slide show I was making of China trip photos. I am happy with this purchase. Many of the songs are very old and take an educated palate to appreciate (not a palate weaned on American pop tunes) but I also found some snappy ditties that work fine for any audience, and work well with my slides.