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from Blurring Boundaries - Erhu Excursions by Yang Ying

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This song incorporates two distinct styles of Chinese music—odd meters common in Xinjiang music in northwest China, and the smooth "silk and bamboo" music from Jiangnan (Yangtze river delta), with Western jazz influences. Improvisation is a very important aspect in much of the folk music of China. When writing this song I improvised the melody and then went back and calculated the chord changes and meter. It begins a bluer minor key, and then switches to a more upbeat major key. The song naturally adopted a combination of 7/4 and 6/4 meters. The odd meter may at first feel unusual to some, especially since almost all Western "pop" music is in 4/4 time.

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from Blurring Boundaries - Erhu Excursions, released July 10, 2015

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Yang Ying New York, New York

Yang Ying was the longtime featured instrumental soloist for the premier traditional song and dance troupe in China. In the late 1980s she also founded Cobra, the first all-female rock band in China.

Now living in the U.S., Ying's passion is to compose music that combines the precision of classical, creativity of jazz, and passion of rock with the soul of Chinese music. ... more

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