Selected Erhu Solos / Performance Notes Version

Author: Yang Chang'an
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: The erhu, as an outstanding national instrument of China, has achieved true scientific and standardized development only within the past century, yet its rapid progress is astonishing. Thanks to the relentless efforts of composers and performers, the erhu repertoire has accumulated not only hundreds but thousands of pieces, and its performance techniques have captivated the world. The West once called the violin "the queen of instruments," and now some refer to the erhu as the "Chinese Violin"—a title it fully deserves. Its rich and expressive, melodious tone, combined with brilliant performance techniques that rival the violin, have deeply moved people's hearts. The number of erhu enthusiasts both in China and abroad continues to grow. This book includes 44 outstanding erhu solo pieces, created and publicly released from the era of Liu Tianhua to recent years, all beloved by erhu enthusiasts but scattered across various different versions. These pieces not only represent a broad spectrum of the instrument's repertoire but alsoly reflect the highest level of erhu performance, saving people the trouble of searching everywhere for sheet music. It can be said that this is a relatively practical erhu repertoire resource.