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The collection of seven songs (op.95 1962) was dedicated to the Chinese baritone Yi-Kwei Sze. Sze recorded the songs, together with two other Chinese songs from Op. 71 (1945), accompanied by pianist Brooks Smith in 1965 (Iramac LP 6517), which won the Netherlands Edison Award in 1966. Tcherepnin had also made English translations of the Chinese ...
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Two children with a long rope stood about 12 feet (3.7 m) apart and turned the rope as other children took turns jumping. If one were not a good jumper, one would be an 'Ever-Laster,' that is, one would perpetually turn the rope. When it was a child's turn to jump, they would enter as the rope turned, and jump to the rhyme until they missed.
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Rope-dancing is the general art and act of performing on or with a rope. [1] There are a variety of forms and techniques which have been used throughout history. These include: Chinese jump rope – in which a circular rope is used to make patterns in a technique which resembles hopscotch and the cat's cradle
Singer Fei Yu-ching in 2012 Plum trees in winter "Yi Jian Mei" (Chinese: 一剪梅; pinyin: Yī jiǎn méi; lit. 'One Trim of Plum Blossom'), [a] also commonly referred to by its popular lyrics "Xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao" (Chinese: 雪花飄飄 北風蕭蕭; pinyin: Xuěhuā piāopiāo běi fēng xiāoxiāo; trans. "Snowflakes drifting, the north wind whistling"), is a 1983 Mandopop ...
Not only that, it’s encapsulated in one song, Taylor Swift’s “Ivy,” which plays over the ending. While speaking with ET’s Denny Directo, Steinfeld and Hunt explain why the Evermore song ...
Jiu Ge, or Nine Songs, (Chinese: 九歌; pinyin: Jiǔ Gē; lit. 'Nine Songs') is an ancient set of poems. Together, these poems constitute one of the 17 sections of the poetry anthology which was published under the title of the Chuci (also known as the Songs of Chu or as the Songs of the South ).