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Creative Crossroads: Tan Dun

Sounds of China - January 25, 2006 21:47 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings
Composer and self-described “musical anthropologist” Tan Dun (perhaps best familiar for his Oscar-winning score to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) creates works that bridge time, place and culture through the fusion of ancient and avant-garde sounds Celebrating the vocal, instrumental, and envi...

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Endangered Music: Yunnan Culture

Sounds of China - January 25, 2006 21:47 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings
Living in a remote, mountainous region of China’s “Land of Clouds” has buffered the Yunnan people from the outside influences of non-native cultures for centuries. With a wide range of voice techniques and instruments as unusual and diverse as the tree leaf, the moon guitar and the spirit drum, ...

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Traditional Music: Chinese Orchestras

Sounds of China - January 25, 2006 21:47 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings
Despite China’s long musical history, Chinese orchestras are relatively new. The push for developing a distinctly Chinese performing arts repertoire came with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. In the years after, Chinese orchestras mirroring the operational style of We...

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