Name: Lantern Festival by 馬水龍 Ma Shui Long Full Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: SpringAutumnmusic
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Lantern Festival
by 馬水龍 Ma Shui Long Full Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Lantern Festival

Artist 馬水龍 Ma Shui Long

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 20

Arrangement Full Orchestra

Publisher SpringAutumnmusic

Product ID 1058168

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Performance Group Full Orchestra

Product Description

1977

1977

1977< Lantern Festival>, for orchestra
Hand lanterns and sweet yuanxiao rice dumplings are two traditional items children eagerly anticipate during the annual Lantern Festival; and the composer of this piece was inspired by recollections of this joyous time from his childhood. The composition starts with a brisk and lively prelude for drums, gongs and wind instruments to welcome the deity associated with the Lantern Festival. Delighted children everywhere carry lanterns and gather in the square in front of the local temple to celebrate this exciting event. Traditional activities include dancing dragons and lions, amusing riddles and numerous brightly-lit and beautifully decorated lanterns which complete the scene. The composer has also included adagio passages to portray the amiable mood of family reunion during this special holiday. The entire composition builds to a final crescendo in a lively pace. Lantern Festival was commissioned by the National Culture and Arts Foundation in 1977, and premiered the same year by the Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nien-Fu David Liao Nianfu at Taiwan's National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.

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