#nanguan

[huishengchang]

大音希聲 - 南、北管 談X彈 實驗音樂 Dai Im Hi Shing - Nanguan x Experimental Music x Beiguan 日期 date：2018/11/23 Venue: 玩劇島小劇場 Little Play, Taichung, Taiwan

表演者 Performers: 吳欣霏 Xin-Fei Wu, 黃貞婷 Chen-Ting Huang, 12 dog cycle (張惠笙 Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Nigel Brown)

[yahkehbu]

After class I visited the instrument museum in The Central Conservatory and decided to take some video and photographs of the various huqin (胡琴 húqín) or vertical fiddle instruments they have on display. 

Note: The opening image is a set of the 5 primary instruments used in nanguan (南管 nánguǎn) music . The far right instrument is a special two stringed fiddle associated with this particular ensemble, not to be confused with the erhu street music playing in the video. The erhu (二胡 èrhú) is the most commonly played of the huqin family, particularly in the conservatory and orchestral settings.

The song was composed by the famous Chinese composer He Lüting for the 1937 classic film, Street Angel.