Selected Collections of Mei Lanfang's Singing Styles

Author: Chu Xiaomei
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: The renowned theatrical master Mei Lanfang has achieved global acclaim in the art of Peking Opera. Particularly, the Mei-style singing, based on inheriting the legacy of predecessors while innovating and reforming, is the essence of Mei-style art. The pipa skills of the elderly predecessors, such as Xu Lanyuan, Wang Shaoqing, and Ren Shenshou, who long accompanied Mei, are equally celebrated domestically and hailed as virtuosos of the pipa. To further disseminate and promote the Mei-style singing and Mei-style pipa, the author has tried to preserve the fading sounds, recording them into fixed simplified notation, providing reference for opera enthusiasts, especially those who love Mei-style singing. Perhaps this can also be considered a resource for studying Mei-style singing art. The author hopes this book can offer some small help to those learning Mei-style singing and Mei-style pipa.