Yao Bingyan

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
A Drunken Man 00:00 Tools
Huaxu - An Opening Tune 00:00 Tools
High Mountains 00:00 Tools
A Long Air On the Tartar Pipe 00:00 Tools
A Feigned Drunkard 00:00 Tools
A Feigned Drunkard (Jiu Kuang) 00:00 Tools
Song of Chu 00:00 Tools
Jiu Kuang (Wine Mad) 00:00 Tools
Wine Frolic 00:00 Tools
Jiu Kuang (The Feigned Drunkard) 00:00 Tools
Jiu Kuang ("Wine Mad") (Chinese) 00:00 Tools
Jiu Kuang (Wine Mad) (Chinese) 00:00 Tools
Jiu Kuang 00:00 Tools
Man Crazy For Wine 00:00 Tools
"Jiu Kuang" ("The Feigned Drunkard") 00:00 Tools
Wine frolic [Qin solo] 00:00 Tools
Jui Kuang ("Wine Mad") (Chinese) 00:00 Tools
The Song of the Kingdom of Chu 00:00 Tools
High Mountains - Yao Bingyan 00:00 Tools
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Yao Bingyan (Chinese: 姚丙炎;1921-1983), school/base Zhe, was an eminent guqin master from Shanghai. His sons are guqin players Yao Gongbai (Chinese: 姚公白; born 1948) and Yao Gongjing (Chinese: 姚公敬; born 1955). The classic guqin piece "Jiu Kuang" (literally "Alcohol Mad", or Drunk Madman) had disappeared from the orally transmitted repertory until Yao Bingyan reconstituted it from a 15th-century handbook. His interpretation features a 3/4 beat rhythm, which is almost absent in guqin music. In his version the rhythm expresses a drunken man lurching. At the end of the piece, an ascending glissando humorously represents the sound of vomiting. (During, Levin 2001) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.