Yuan Sha's Guzheng Teaching: Finger Shaking Etude - Accompaniment Version of Liang Zhu's Excerpts
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The Liang Zhu violin concerto was a work by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang when they were studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. It was composed in the winter of 1958. It was premiered in Shanghai in May of the following year and was well received. The premiere was performed by Yu Lina as the violin soloist. The subject matter is a well-known folk tale, using the tunes of Yue Opera as the material, comprehensively using symphony and Chinese folk opera music expression techniques, carefully conceived and laid out according to the development of the plot, using a sonata-style structure, single movement, with subtitles. The main contents are "Marriage at Caoqiao", "British and Taiwan's resistance to marriage", and "Butterfly in front of the grave". The song-like structure is composed of birds singing and flowers, worshiping at grass bridge, classmates for three years, sending each other for eighteen years, farewell to long pavilion, Yingtai resisting marriage, complaining of crying spirits, and turning into butterflies in front of the grave.

Involving the artist

Yuan Sha, a Chinese guzheng performing artist, has funded and trained dozens of disabled and impoverished students over the years, enabling them to embark on the road of guzheng art and become self-reliant, cultivate nearly 2,000 guzheng education talents, and hold special guzheng music performances at home and abroad. Nearly 200 conferences and lectures have been held, and dozens of textbooks and CD-ROMs have been published, which has made great contributions to the promotion and popularization of guzheng art.
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Guzheng (pinyin: Gǔ Zhēng), also known as Hanzheng and Qinzheng, is an ancient national musical instrument of the Han nationality and is popular all over China. It is often used for solo, duet, instrumental ensemble and accompaniment of song and dance, opera and folk art. Because of its wide range, beautiful timbre, rich playing skills and strong expressiveness, it is known as the "King of Music", also known as "Oriental Piano", and is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China.

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