Erhu Solo Top Ten Famous Pieces

The top ten famous erhu solo pieces are "Two Fountains Reflecting the Moon", "Good Night", "Listening to the Pines", "Birdsong on the Empty Mountain", "Cold Spring Breeze Song", "Moonlit Night", "Flowing Waves Song", "Sickness in the Song", "Three Treasures of the Buddha", and "Brightness in the Line".

1, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon"

"Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" is a rare heirloom of Chinese folk instrumental music. The two springs in the song are the Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, which is known as "the second spring in the world". The author, Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing), named the piece "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon," not only introduced people to the quiet of the night and the coldness of the moon, but also made listening to the whole piece more like seeing a human being - a straight and tenacious blind artist pouring out his difficult life to the people.

2, "Good Night"

"Good Night" was originally called "New Year's Eve Singing", which was composed by national musician Liu Tianhua in 1928. Infected by the joyful mood of the New Year's Eve, the author was in high spirits, notating the score while playing, and the piece was composed in a moment. The music of this song is single, lyrical, fresh and bright, giving people a sense of ease.

3. Listening to Pine

Listening to Pine is composed by Hua Yanjun (Bing). According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, Wu Shu was defeated by Yue Fei and fled to the bottom of Huiquan Mountain in Wuxi, where he lay on the stone of Listening to the Pines and listened to the shouts of the Song soldiers and horses in fear of his life. Listening to Pine" is a description of this story, so it is also known as "Listening to Song". Through the pine, the author praises the national hero Yue Fei's military prowess, and at the same time, he pours in his upright and unyielding character and firm and confident will. The tune is strong and powerful, with ups and downs; the structure is symmetrical and the main body is prominent.

4, "Empty Mountain Bird Language"

"Empty Mountain Bird Language" is a tune made by Liu Tianhua after ten years. The title "Empty Mountain Bird Language" is based on Wang Wei's poem "Empty Mountain without Seeing People" in Tang Dynasty. Based on the folk traditional playing techniques and professional compositional skills, the author has composed a complete and poetic piece of music that expresses the love of nature with a melody that is rich in ethnicity.

5. "Cold Spring Wind Song"

"Cold Spring Wind Song" was composed by Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing). Some of the tunes and playing techniques of the piece are similar to "Reflecting the Moon in Two Fountains", but the tunes are more in the bright tone area, more lively and smooth, expansive, making the listener feel that the bright spring is approaching.

6, "Moonlit Night"

"Moonlit Night" was composed by Liu Tianhua, who, in the summer of 1918, could not help but be touched by the scene under the moon, and manipulated the erhu to look at the moon and express his feelings, and his thoughts flowed like a stream of music. He wrote the first draft of the piece and finalized it six years later. The melody of the piece is stretching and soft, euphemistic and simple, and in the melodic progression of the main melody, from time to time there are six degrees, seven degrees and octaves of the big jumps in the scale, tumbling, unconventional.

7. "Flowing Wave Song"

"Flowing Wave Song" is the masterpiece of Sun Wenming, a folk artist. The author is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, blind at an early age, due to the loss of his father's life in poverty, had to leave his hometown to fortune-telling to make a living. Later, he specialized in playing the huqin and made a living by selling his art. The music is a self-portrait of his life in exile.

8. "Singing in Sickness"

"Singing in Sickness," also known as "Anshi" or "Hushi," was Liu Tianhua's debut work, first drafted in 1915 and finalized in 1918. The title of the piece means "Where is Life Going". The question of life's "comfort" raised by the author in the title is best expressed through the music, which is sometimes sultry, sometimes angry, sometimes emotional, and sometimes moaning and sighing.

9. "Three Treasure Buddhas"

The piece's "Three Drawing Waves" was once adapted by the yangqinist Yan Laolie into the Cantonese music "Drought Thunder", which expresses the people's joyous mood when a long drought is followed by a sweet rain. 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.

10, "Bright March"

"Bright March" was composed by Liu Tianhua in the spring of 1931. It is an uplifting marching song with bright and firm melody and elastic rhythm, which expresses the mood of the intellectuals in the old time society who are in constant pursuit of progress and light. In the piece, the decomposition of the main chords is used to form a horn-like tone, which is dominant in the piece.