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What are the top ten famous erhu songs?

1, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon"

"Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" is China's most famous erhu music, which was composed by Wuxi folk erhu artist Hua Yanjun in the mid-20th century. The music not only makes people visualize the mood of a clear home and a cold moon at midnight, with the cold moon in the sky reflected in the cold spring water, but also seems to tell the story of the blind artist's bumpy fate and his painful life. This piece has a profound mood, full of rich national flavor and artistic infectivity.

2. Listening to Pine

Listening to Pine, also known as Listening to Song, is an erhu solo piece composed by Chinese folk musician Bing. Its content seems to depict Yue Fei, a great patriotic general of the Song Dynasty. The piece is about the great patriotic general Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty. The song celebrates the national hero Yue Fei's military prowess through the pine waves, and at the same time pours in his upright character and firm and confident will, extolling the Chinese people's pine-like national integrity, steel-like strong will to struggle and heroic spirit to defeat the enemy. The whole piece is bold, vigorous and powerful, and can be called a musical treasure.

3. Birdsong on the Empty Mountain

Birdsong on the Empty Mountain is an erhu solo piece composed by Liu Tianhua, the first draft of which was written in 1918 and finalized ten years later. The title is taken from a poem by Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, which says: "I don't see anyone on the empty mountains, but I hear the sound of people's voices. In this piece, Liu Tianhua creatively used the three-stringed opera-style modal approach to depict the beautiful scenery of deep mountains and valleys, with birds calling and crying, and it is an extremely imaginative piece. 1993, it was awarded the prize of Chinese 20th Century Musical Classics by the Association for the Promotion of Chinese National Culture.

4, "Good Night"

This "Good Night" was composed by the musician Liu Tianhua in 1928, and was originally titled "New Year's Eve Singing", which was improvised at a party with his students and friends during the Chinese New Year. The whole piece has a single, lyrical, fresh and bright image, which gives people a sense of pleasure. Through the light and soft melody, it vividly depicts the author's delightful mood of celebrating the New Year's Eve with his friends and ****ing a good night, and the joy and passion expressed in the music reaches the limit of what the instrument can achieve, making it a classic piece of erhu music.

5. "Sickness in the Song"

"Sickness in the Song" is the first erhu music by Chinese composer Liu Tianhua, and can also be said to be the first erhu solo in modern China. It was composed under the double blow of Liu Tianhua's loss of his job and the death of his father, and the music suggests the idea that he wanted to get rid of these difficulties and try to do something to change them, expressing his frustrated mood; the song does not imply that he was moaning in a serious illness.

6. "Cold Spring Breeze Song"

This erhu music was written by composer Hua Yanjun, and some of the melodies and playing techniques are similar to those of his most famous erhu piece, "Two Fountains Reflecting the Moon," but this one has a much brighter mood, i.e., a lively and smooth melody that makes the listener feel that sunny spring has come.

7, "Bright Walk"

"Bright Walk" is an erhu solo composed by Liu Tianhua in 1931, and the music is known for its uplifting, passionate and energetic melody, which is Chinese in style. The whole piece has four sections, as well as an introduction and an epilogue, and is well structured with the characteristics of the Western compound three-part form. It is an uplifting march, with a bright and firm melody and an elastic rhythm, which expresses the mood of the intellectuals of the society in the olden times who were in constant pursuit of progress and brightness.

8, "Three Treasure Buddhas"

"Three Treasure Buddhas" is a relatively old erhu music, composed by Liu Tianhua. The piece's "San Kap Wave" was once adapted by the yangqinist Yan Laolie into the Cantonese music "Drought Heavenly Thunder", which expresses the people's joyful emotions when a long drought is followed by a rainy day. The rest of the piece is melodious, with a smooth rhythm, and the erhu and orchestration have been carefully handled to make the music even more appealing.

9. "Flowing Waves"

"Flowing Waves" is a solo erhu piece written by the blind musician Sun Wenming in the winter of 1952, and the theme of the music is the composer's hard life away from home. The music has a deep emotion, and through the steady rhythm and slight tempo changes, it sounds as if the composer is telling a sad story.

10. "Sickness in the Song"

"Sickness in the Song" is Chinese composer Liu Tianhua's first erhu music, and arguably the first erhu solo in modern China. It was composed under the double blow of Liu Tianhua's loss of his job and the death of his father. The music suggests the idea that he wanted to get rid of these difficulties and try to do something to change them, and expresses his frustrated mood; the song does not imply that he was moaning in a serious illness.

How to appreciate the famous erhu song "Chasing the Moon with Colored Clouds"?

In 1932, when Ren Guang was the director of the program Shao at the Shanghai Bai Dai Records Company, he, together with Nie Er, wrote and recorded a set of national orchestral pieces for the Bai Dai National Orchestra, and "Chasing the Moon with Colored Clouds" was one of them, composed in 1935. 1960, Peng Xiuwen rearranged the piece according to the orchestra composition of the Central Broadcasting National Orchestra. The piece depicts the fascinating scenery of the vast night sky with a five-tone melody rich in national colors, free modal progression in the upper fifth, the flute and erhu, the light rhythm of plucked instruments, the plucked strings of the bass instruments, and the empty tone of the suspended cymbals.