Guzheng music collection "Thoughts in the Western Regions" from the album "Chinese Music Map of Hearing Guzheng music collection Su Chang"

Caprice in Western Area

Composer: Wang Jianmin Nationality: Unknown region: Xinjiang

Guzheng: Su Chang

This "Random Thoughts in the Western Regions" is an exotic style painting based on the folk music of Xinjiang. The composer not only created a unique musical vocabulary for the zither, but also combined modern composing techniques and designed a special tuning method according to the customs of the western regions, opening up a new soil for the performance of the zither.

At first, a string of lively zither sounds rich in Western customs, with a unique armature, like a caravan camel bell traveling in the stretching sand sea, and like the flying of a bouncing pipa, or a gust of wind, raising a heavy curtain of sand, that curtain of sand is like a beautiful sari, and then there is a magnificent and mysterious. Then the frustrated and dynamic rhythm, with strong and strong music, such as the camel caravan from the distant horizon, reflecting the afterglow of the vast sunset, and the undulating waves of the sand sea, the pace of the orderly march, suddenly forced to the eyes. The rhythm of the phrase is suddenly accelerated, like a beautiful girl stepping on a dazzling whirl dance, twisting, twisting, bending the waist, the gorgeous dress and clothes fly, the eye waves flow, the strong zheng sound here mimics the gripping tambine beat, and the vibrating notes are like shaking pearls, and the eyes are mesmerized. In the increasingly lyrical, the phrase leads the caravan and the dance together into an oasis, the garden is orderly, the green waves are ripening, and even the white swans are singing in the depths of the lake. People stop here for a while, amber wine fills glass cups, people sing and drink, from day to night, the stars hang upside down, revolving on the deep and endless sky. Then the next day, the sun is bright, ushering in a new energetic departure. The thought of the western region is like a long silk road, in the enchanting music, related to yesterday and tomorrow, brilliant and without end.