he did it in later stage of life when friends and colleagues in shanghai ask him to compile his works and publish a complete edition. that's also why so many of his older works are edited in the early 2000s. they decided to do a fascimile publication instead of typing them out, which is why is have to write them so neatly i reckon
I love how he uses all the techniques of French Impressionism to create a piece that nevertheless sounds resolutely Chinese. Thank you for posting! Also, the harpsichord in movement 3 was an unexpected texture, very lovely.
@@everythingtheone6110 hmm probably the harmonic choices at the beginning (parallel chord structures, in this case three maj7-9 chords moving a whole-step down from E to C) combined with the use of fourths and fifths in the woodwind voicings. Then you have the orchestration aspect, that is quite textural. It reminds me a lot of Hisaishi's (from the studio ghibli soundtracks) compositions in that regard, still tonal but with some ambiguity. Much like the "One summer's day" intro. th-cam.com/video/TK1Ij_-mank/w-d-xo.html
@everythingtheone6110 impressionism is the reactionary movement against romanticism. Their music is capturing a dream like sense and embodying emotions of water, wind,eroticism, fragrance etc. Harmonies are dissonant but have blurry harmonies. They blend this with modes, whole tone scales and asian influences. There's heavy pedaling or sounds that overlap other notes to also blend. Fauré's mature period was writing in a way that the romantic school did not teach. Debussy fully finished what Fauré started and also made music more free form and free of key. It is atonality without the sense of 12 tone music or serialism. Ravel created new techniques and ripple sounds to show a unique soundscape of impressionism. Others also wrote unique impressionist music (Albeniz, de Falla, Uuno Klami, Griffes, Cyril Scott, Delius, Satie, Cras, Schmitt,Bax etc hope this helps :)
Jian'er Zhu combines colourful musical structures that reveal his love for french impressionisme combined with a souful touch of east-asian simplicity and textures.
Pug Man There are several Chinese composers who introduce impressionist musicality on their music. I suggest you to search in this channel, there are a lot of worth-to-hear pieces
@@LasseKarhu Impressionism and styles of Chinese music is very comparable even cannot say which affects which (after all impressionism contains a lot of Chinese music influence). Some La-mer-like techniques in this piece (eg. pentatonic scale, ad lib solo on string tremelos (section 1), portamento on string melodies ....) are elements that can be easily found in Chinese orchestral music composed around 1970s.
I hear so many of the orchestration techniques of Ravel, Debussy, and Respighi in this wonderful piece, but it is as distinctly personal as Poulenc and Lili Boulanger’s styles, whose orchestral writing I recognize almost instantly! I’m definitely going to be looking for more from this amazing composer!
A very sweet, engaging piece of music. It was entertaining from beginning to end. Nicely orchestrated and certainly user friendly. An intriguing blend of Asian and Western musical materials.
Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen !!
Heard this for the first time on the day you uploaded it, and was completely blown away. I am soon going to start on a piano arrangement of Dance of The Netting Girls. Do you have a source for this recording and/or do you have this transcription uploaded anywhere (assuming it's your own)? I couldn't find it on your Github page.
In some parts, it sounds as if he is using Western instruments such as the cello and harpsichord to replicate traditional Chinese instruments such as the erhu and guzheng. Certainly, some of the larger solos in the first movement also sound like folk singing.
It took a long time for the work to be performed due to the Cultural Revolution, in which this work failed in the censorship. It was a hard time for Zhu Jian-er. Such a pity.
Is there anywhere I can purchase or download a score that you know of? Or other performances? I absolutely adore this work and would love to study it in more depth!
Definitely a fusion of Oriental Culture and Impressionism of the Classical Music genre. I'd argue Debussy did it first, his "La Mer" immediately comes to mind although Claude may have done something earlier than 1905.....
Can we all take a moment to appreciate this beautiful handwriting? Legitimately the best handwritten score I've seen.
he did it in later stage of life when friends and colleagues in shanghai ask him to compile his works and publish a complete edition. that's also why so many of his older works are edited in the early 2000s. they decided to do a fascimile publication instead of typing them out, which is why is have to write them so neatly i reckon
I didn't notice it was handwritten until I read this.
I love how he uses all the techniques of French Impressionism to create a piece that nevertheless sounds resolutely Chinese. Thank you for posting! Also, the harpsichord in movement 3 was an unexpected texture, very lovely.
Hi there, what are the techniques of french impressionism exactly? do you have any good videos explaining these topics? thanks!
French impressionism was heavily influenced by asian music so :) kind of full circle here
@@everythingtheone6110 hmm probably the harmonic choices at the beginning (parallel chord structures, in this case three maj7-9 chords moving a whole-step down from E to C) combined with the use of fourths and fifths in the woodwind voicings. Then you have the orchestration aspect, that is quite textural.
It reminds me a lot of Hisaishi's (from the studio ghibli soundtracks) compositions in that regard, still tonal but with some ambiguity. Much like the "One summer's day" intro.
th-cam.com/video/TK1Ij_-mank/w-d-xo.html
I was actually thinking the EXACT same thing.
Except, Italian, not French. A la Respighi.
@everythingtheone6110 impressionism is the reactionary movement against romanticism. Their music is capturing a dream like sense and embodying emotions of water, wind,eroticism, fragrance etc. Harmonies are dissonant but have blurry harmonies. They blend this with modes, whole tone scales and asian influences. There's heavy pedaling or sounds that overlap other notes to also blend. Fauré's mature period was writing in a way that the romantic school did not teach. Debussy fully finished what Fauré started and also made music more free form and free of key. It is atonality without the sense of 12 tone music or serialism. Ravel created new techniques and ripple sounds to show a unique soundscape of impressionism. Others also wrote unique impressionist music (Albeniz, de Falla, Uuno Klami, Griffes, Cyril Scott, Delius, Satie, Cras, Schmitt,Bax etc hope this helps :)
I love his orchestration!!
colourful and seducing
I'm a big classical music fan, and I always enjoy finding composers of non-European heritage. Thank you so much for your uploads!
Me too
Jian'er Zhu combines colourful musical structures that reveal his love for french impressionisme combined with a souful touch of east-asian simplicity and textures.
Omg the horn in the beginning is just so beautiful ♥️
Happy 100th birthday Mr. Zhu
Very interesting music. Seems like this man applied impressionistic techniques to his regional traditional sounds.
Never heard of this composer or any of his music but this comment was enough to peak my curiosity
Pug Man There are several Chinese composers who introduce impressionist musicality on their music. I suggest you to search in this channel, there are a lot of worth-to-hear pieces
@@ぴぴ-d4k He was a Chinese composer of last century, who just passed away in 2017.....
The first page could have been a part in Debussy's La Mer.
@@LasseKarhu Impressionism and styles of Chinese music is very comparable even cannot say which affects which (after all impressionism contains a lot of Chinese music influence). Some La-mer-like techniques in this piece (eg. pentatonic scale, ad lib solo on string tremelos (section 1), portamento on string melodies ....) are elements that can be easily found in Chinese orchestral music composed around 1970s.
I hear so many of the orchestration techniques of Ravel, Debussy, and Respighi in this wonderful piece, but it is as distinctly personal as Poulenc and Lili Boulanger’s styles, whose orchestral writing I recognize almost instantly! I’m definitely going to be looking for more from this amazing composer!
Oh that opening horn solo is just MURDER. I pity and applaud the hornist who has to play it.
Amazing handwriting
I find 10:40 rather reminiscent of Holst
00:01 I - Dance of the Netting Girls
06:19 II - Song of the Saltwater
08:36 III - Lullaby
13:35 IV - Frolic
saturn
Spring Rounds as well
Bro this is excellent, thank you for letting us hear this incredible pieces.
A very sweet, engaging piece of music. It was entertaining from beginning to end. Nicely orchestrated and certainly user friendly. An intriguing blend of Asian and Western musical materials.
Absolutely gorgeous
Fantastic orchestration! Great music!
Like the first light of dawn, this music opens your eyes to new promises and to all the wonders of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken the loves, the skinned lives and torpor of the sleeping watchmen !!
That music makes me happy
I NEED THIS ON SPOTIFY
I love being exposed to these Asian composers
Beautiful piece. Sounds like Debussy, Scriabin, Ravel, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor mixed kind of.
omg am glad this video is back
Thanks a lot
Heard this for the first time on the day you uploaded it, and was completely blown away.
I am soon going to start on a piano arrangement of Dance of The Netting Girls.
Do you have a source for this recording and/or do you have this transcription uploaded anywhere (assuming it's your own)? I couldn't find it on your Github page.
In some parts, it sounds as if he is using Western instruments such as the cello and harpsichord to replicate traditional Chinese instruments such as the erhu and guzheng. Certainly, some of the larger solos in the first movement also sound like folk singing.
A wild Jonas appeared
Nice
It took a long time for the work to be performed due to the Cultural Revolution, in which this work failed in the censorship. It was a hard time for Zhu Jian-er. Such a pity.
Is there anywhere I can purchase or download a score that you know of? Or other performances? I absolutely adore this work and would love to study it in more depth!
非常棒非常棒的訪談，將朱踐耳音樂歷程言簡意賅地傳達體獻，將中國民族音樂中西合壁天人和ㄧ等創作理念與實踐落地生根與啟迪後學者，居功厥偉，並非常感謝提供這篇訪談的頻益，疫情期間祈願大家平安喜樂！
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Dear CMaj, thank you for the upload. Is this music in Spotify? I wasn’t lucky to find it
Great
i like this stuff
Interesting...
Such a change from his 4th symphony...but beautiful all the same, albeit in a different way
This is really nice
Admire
5:00 me starting up my gamecube
Thank you for this upload. I am most interested in obtaining the sheet music for these pieces. Who can I contact for it?
How did you get the pdf for this piece？
thanks for sharing this, can i get an original audio for this?
Hello, did you find it? I tried on Spotify but unlikely
Is there any reason Zhu decided to mess with us by shifting the downbeat?
Dear Cmaj7, i sent an email to you regarding my request for the score. Looking forward to study on it. Regards!
Hey Fauzan, have you been able to acquire this score? I'm interested as well. Thanks!
@@santimontali I am. I can forward the email if you want. Can I get your email?
@@fauzanrahman3149 dear Fauzan I would like to have access to the score if you please :)
This is so beautiful! Do you have the sheet music of this piece?
Sounds like a studio ghibli theme ❤️
Definitely a fusion of Oriental Culture and Impressionism of the Classical Music genre. I'd argue Debussy did it first, his "La Mer" immediately comes to mind although Claude may have done something earlier than 1905.....
Hey there! tried to find this score in your git repositories and couldn't, any chance to acquire it from you in some way?
Where did you find this score😩😩😩😩
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Where can I get the sheet music
Quaint, but well orchestrated and, above all, human. Levels above the steely, over-intellectualized smut coming from Western composers in these times.
手書き！
This Zhu Jian Er must have learnt from Debussy and Hans Zimmer
It was 1965 when the piece was written. At that time Hans Zimmer was only 8 years old.
@@XinhaoZheng if someone, than Holst...
Hans Zimmer is a joke!