SKU: PR.312416820

UPC: 680160050376. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Chen Yi’s most performed and most beloved choral music is a series of 10 Chinese folk songs adapted for S.A.T.B. Chorus (published in 3 volumes: 312-41731, 312-41732, 312-41733). This special version is a setting of the familiar collection, adapted for children’s chorus and strings.
Remembering when I studied composition in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, I learned to sing hundreds of Chinese folk songs collected from more than twenty provinces and fifty ethnic groups, and went to countryside to collect original folk music every year.  I got to know that the folk songs are a mirror of people’s daily lives, their thoughts and sentiments, local customs and manners.  They are sung in regional dialects and use the idioms of everyday speech with their particular intonations, accents and cadences.  This correlation between speech and music distinguishes folk songs of one region from another.  I learned all songs by heart and sang them back in the exams every week.  They melted in my blood and became my natural music language.  The more I walk into the music life,the more I treasure the rich culture I have learned from my homeland. When I became the Composer-in-Residence of Chanticleer and was invited to write the first work for its concert program, as well as another version for its Singing-In-The-Schools program, I decided to introduce A Set of Chinese Folk Songs to my American audiences, and add a new flavor to Chanticleer’srich repertoire.  The work includes ten folk songs, taken from eight provinces (Anhui, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Shanxi, Taiwan, Sinkiang, Jiangsu and Guizhou) and five ethnic groups (Han, Hasake, Uighur, Miao and Yi).  I arranged them for choirs (men’s or children’s chorus) with various combinations in voices, to be sung mostly in Chinese, some in English.   From the mysterious mountain songs originally sung in the open air with high and long notes that can carry over great distances, the sweet and delicate melodies of young love compared with nature, the humorous antiphony by little children, and the lively dancing tune by villagers, you may get an idea of various music styles in Chinese folk songs according to geographic, ethnic and linguistic differences, and appreciate the beauty of the Chinese folk music.  The pure choir sound and the sophisticated singing by Chanticleer, in terms of pitches, language and musical expressions, really attract and inspire me to create some more new works in the years to come.  In thisedition of A Set of Chinese Folk Songs for standard SATB mixed choir (with piano rehearsal score), I divided these ten songs into three volumes.  They are Fengyang Song, The Flowing Stream, Guessing, Thinking of My Darling, Mayila, Jasmine Flower, Riding on a Mule, Awariguli, Diu Diu Deng, andMountain Song and Dancing Tune.—Chen Yi.

SKU: CF.YAS226F

ISBN 9781491163085. UPC: 680160921836. Key: D major.

Chen Yi’s original A Set of Chinese Folk Songs included ten songs, first arranged for the vocal ensemble Chanticleer to perform with students in the “Singing-in-the-Schools” programs in the 1990's. Taken from a wide range of geographic regions in China, with rich characteristics and expressive contrast, the set has been sung by many choirs around the world in the past thirty years. Three songs from that collection have been thoughtfully arranged into a three-movement suite for intermediate string orchestras, bringing this beautiful Chinese folk music to even more young musicians. The celebratory Fengyang Song is from Anhui province which is popular in the whole country. The lyrical love song Flowing Stream is from Yunnan province in the southwest, and the passionate and vivid Mayila is from the ethnic group known as Kazakhs in the northwest.

SKU: BT.CMP-0704-03-010

This delightful beginning band suite is based on three Chinese folk songs. The extremely limited ranges and rhythms make it accessible to any band, and the “suite” format gives you a great deal of flexibility in performance.There are numerous suggestions for additional interest in the percussion section, but it is easily performed with just the standard instruments, or even lacking a percussion section altogether!Explore the orient with CHINA SUITE this year!

Deze fraaie suite voor blaasorkest is gebaseerd op drie Chinese volksliedjes. Het eerste verwijst naar werken op de boerderij, het tweede beschrijft een prachtige bloem, terwijl het derde gaat over een onderwerp dat kinderen overalter wereld bezighoudt: de school gaat uit! De creatieve toepassing van aanvullende, deels optionele, slagwerkinstrumenten geeft China Suite een exotische, Chinees aandoende sfeer.

Diese entzückende Suite für Blasorchester basiert auf drei chinesischen Volksliedern. Der erste Satz erzählt von der Arbeit auf dem Lande. Der zweite beschreibt eine wunderschöne Blume, während der dritte Satz einen Titel trägt, der die Schülerherzen auf der ganzen Welt höher schlagen lässt: Die Schule ist aus! Der kreative Einsatz von zusätzlichen, teils optionalen Schlaginstrumenten verleiht der China Suite einen exotischen, original chinesisch anmutenden Charakter.

China Suite est une composition où les sonorités résolument chinoises se marient avec élégance un contenu plein d’imagination. Cette suite pour Orchestre d’Harmonie est basée sur trois chants traditionnels chinois. Une approche de la culture asiatique par la musique.