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Erhu Around the World (DVD/CD album & 24 pp. photo-booklet), Slav, Shanghai (2006) [11] Spirit of My Erhu—Ma Xiaohui Special Features No. 1, Slav, Shanghai (2006) Four Seasons of Erhu—Romance, Ma Xiaohui Special Features No. 2, Slav, Shanghai (2006) New Colors from China (with Li Biao, Percussion), Deutsche Welle, Germany (2003)
Erhu sound. The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras.
Jiang Fengzhi (蒋风之, 1908–1986) was an erhu artist from Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China. His career of playing the erhu can be divided into four periods. In the first period, he was educated by Wang Laosi (simplified Chinese: 王老四) from 1920 to 1921.
At the beginning, erhu were called huqin since they were invented by an ethnic group that lived in northern China. Their original role was for soldiers in frontier regions. Its timbre is strong, and songs for erhu always describe wars, desert, and for people far from home to tell their how much they miss their families. Erhu have two strings ...
The piece is now often performed with Chinese instruments playing the violin part, the most common being Erhu, Pipa, and Liuqin; in such cases, the soloist is often accompanied by an orchestra consisting of Chinese instruments. [17]
This is a list of erhu performers and contains a non-exhaustive list of notable players of the erhu, a bowed musical instrument with two strings. Erhu performers
Min Huifen in her childhood. Min was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province in 1945. [3] Her father began teaching her to play the erhu when she was eight. [1] She studied at the Affiliated High School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and then at the Department of Traditional Chinese Music of the Conservatory.
The huqin series of instruments in common usage consist of the erhu, zhonghu and gaohu. The gaohu (highest-pitched of the series) and zhonghu (lowest-pitched huqin) are proportionately fewer in numbers in the Chinese orchestra. The erhu forms the bulk of this section and is divided into distinct sections, known as erhu I and erhu II. These two ...