Ten famous songs of Liu Tianhua

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Liu Tianhua is the originator of the Erhu School. The ten erhu pieces he composed have had a huge impact on the development of erhu performance, and have raised the performance of erhu music to a new height, transforming from a musical instrument with accompaniment to a solo with a certain ability and depth The erhu has become an important representative of Chinese national musical instruments.

Ten famous songs of Liu Tianhua

Ten Famous Erhu Songs by Mr. Liu Tianhua

1, chanting while sick, 2, good night, 3, bright walk, 4, the pivot of depression, 5, elegy, 6, birdsong in the empty mountain, 7, sing in leisure, 8, moonlit night, 9, single string, 10, candle shadow shaking Red.

These ten pieces of Erhu music, from different angles, show a musician's thinking, struggle, and pursuit of spiritual realm about the life at that time. Mr. Liu Tianhua's music creation is restricted and influenced by the specific environment. He is helped by his elder brother, Mr. Liu Bannong, and has been nurtured in literature, so that his music works have a strong literary color. For example, birds chirping in empty mountains, moonlit nights, lounging and chanting, and walking in the light, these pieces all have a poetic feeling in literature. Fang Every erhu player should take Mr. Liu Tianhua's ten erhu pieces as a compulsory course for entering the classroom!

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Liu Tianhua is from Xiheng Street, Chengjiang Town, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province. China's outstanding national musical instrument composer, performer, music educator. The master of modern Chinese folk music and the originator of the erhu.
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Erhu (Pinyin: Erhu) originated in the Tang Dynasty, called "Xiqin", and has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Erhu, or Erxian Huqin, also known as "Nanhu" and "Omzi", is one of the main bowed and stringed instruments (wiping strings) in the Chinese national musical instrument family.

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