1. MUSIC COMPARISON Purple Bamboo Melody to Bright Sheng’s Shanghai Overture

2. CHINA ❖ 2nd largest country by land mass ❖ Population: 1,361,170,000 ❖ 91.51% Han Chinese ❖ 34 provinces

3. ❖ Dialects: Mandarin, Wu, Min, Xiang, Gan, Hakka ❖ Most common dialect: Mandarin ❖ Borders 14 countries, and shares maritime borders with 4 others

4. ❖ The People’s Republic of China ever since 1959 ❖ Went through movements like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

5. ❖ Ancient China was based on dynasties and was very advanced at the time ❖ Influenced many of the surrounding countries

6. ❖ Traditional Chinese instruments were the predecessors of many others ❖ Guzheng ( 古箏 ): Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Japanese koto

7. Traditional Chinese Instruments ❖ Erhu ( 二胡 ) ❖ Pipa ( 琵琶 ) ❖ Zheng or guzheng ( 古箏 ) ❖ Yangqin ( 揚琴 )

8. ERHU ( 二胡 ) ❖ Spike-fiddle of the huqin family http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE

9. PIPA ( 琵琶 ) ❖ Pear-shaped lute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA

10. ZHENG or guzheng ( 古箏 ) ❖ A zither with movable frets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bof1GlvAo0

11. YANGQIN ( 揚琴 ) ❖ A hammered dulcimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgx5MyLhm8

12. Purple Bamboo Melody ( 紫竹调 ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68

13. BRIGHT sHENG (Sheng Zong-Liang) ❖ Born in Shanghai, December 1955 ❖ Sent to Qinghai (near Tibet) during Cultural Revolution ❖ Moved to America 1982

14. STUDIES ❖ Learned piano, but had to teach himself music theory while in Qinghai ❖ Went to Shanghai Conservatory of Music to study music ❖ Studied with George Perle, Hugo Weisgall, Chou Wen-Chung, Jack Beeson, Mario Davidovsky, and Leonard Bernstein in America

15. INFLUENCES ❖ Chinese folk music ❖ Béla Bartók, a Hungarian composer

16. NOTABLE WORKS ❖ Madame Mao ❖ Shanghai Overture ❖ The Song and Dance of Tears ❖ Nanking! Nanking! ❖ China Dreams

17. SHANGHAI OVERTURE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g

18. COMPARISON ❖ Both have an intro, then the melody focuses on one of two players at a time with the other players providing accompaniment ❖ Shanghai Overture uses the main theme of Purple Bamboo Melody

19. ❖ Instrumentation (traditional Chinese vs. classical symphony instruments) ❖ Use of dynamics ❖ Variations of the style DIFFERENCES

20. THE END 結束

21. WORKS CITED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgx5MyLhm8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bof1GlvAo0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1YMjLwExE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/long-bio/Bright-Sheng http://www.brightsheng.com/ http://www.brightsheng.com/programnotes/Shanghaioverture.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLrL-qDd68 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-Na-g7G3g