Music For Ch'in - China (Museum Collection Berlin) / Liang Ming-Yüeh* ‎– Musik Für Ch'in - China

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Museum Collection Berlin (West)
Editor: Artur Simon

Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Classical
Year: 1977

Track list:
Yang-Kuan-san-tieh (Parting At Yang-Kuan)
P'ing-sha-lo-yen (Wild Geese Alighting On The Sandy Shore)
Chiu-K'uang (Wine Madness)
T'ien-feng-huan-p'ei (Sound Of Jade Ornaments Filling The Skies)
Liang-hsiao-yin (Serene Evening)
Ch'ang-mên-yuan (Lament Of Empress Ch'en)
P'u-an-chou (A Buddhist Incantation)
Tsui-yü-ch'ang-wan (Drunken Fisherman's Evening Song)


Chin Music of Ten Centuries
China Played and commented by Liang Ming-Wieh

The ch'in is one of the oldest of the Chinese zithers, dating back to pre-dynastic times. It has been the outstanding instrument of scholars and the educated class, and remains the most well-documented subject in Chinese music, both in literature and music notation. Hence, this sound disc is appropriately devoted entirely to the ch'in; it is a remarkable and unprecedented example in LP recording history. Presented is one of the most venerated Chinese musical art forms. Performers of the ch'in are scarce, but those who are able to maintain an extensive major repertory of this artistic accomplishment are even rarer at the present time. Liang Ming-Yiieh, born 1941 in Peking, belongs among the foremost artists and authorities of the ch'in and other Chinese musical instruments. He began his study of ch'in playing at the age of sixteen, under Master Hu Ying-t'ang (1898-1973). Liang is also a renowned scholar in the history and performance practice of Chinese music. He received his Ph. D. degree in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1973, and is now a professor in musicology and corn-position at the University of British Columbia (Canada).


Notes by the editor:

The Department for Ethnomusicology of the Ethnographical Museum Berlin was formerly called the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv. During the more than 75 years since it was founded by Carl Stumpf and Erich M. von Hornbostel it has become one of the internationally renowned Centres of Comparative Musicology, documentation and research of Non-Western music with nowadays more than 40,000 sound recordings, starting with the first Edison wax cylinders up to modern stereophonic tape recordings from all over the world. The music of this stereophonic sound disc was recorded at the Ethnographical Museum Berlin (Dahlem) on June 1975. Tape-recorder: Nagra IV-S; two micro-phones AKG CK 1. Engineer of sound: Wilhelm Leopold. Production director: Dr. Artur Simon.

Credits

Engineer – Wilhelm Leopold
Huqin (Ch'in) – Liang Ming-Yüeh
Photography – Dietrich Graf
Producer – Artur Simon
Written-By – Traditional

Notes
Recorded in June 1975 at Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (Dahlem).
Comes in a gatefold sleeve with 24-page booklet with extensive liner notes and transcriptions in English and German.
Manufactured by Teldec Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH, Hamburg, Germany.