Chinese Music Atlas

Musical Works

Musical Works

Named compositions: what they are, which tradition they belong to, and what can actually be established about their history.

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The Moon Reflected on the Second Spring二泉映月

Hua Yanjun's best-known erhu piece, named during a 1950 field recording; scholars read it as expressing his own life rather than depicting the scenery its title suggests.

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Ambush from Ten Sides十面埋伏

A martial (wu) pipa piece, recorded in Shen Zhaozhou's 1916 score and listed among the Pudong school's representative martial suites.