Product Description
Arranged for Brass Quintet, The "March of the Volunteers" is the
national anthem of the People's Republic of China, including its special
administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Unlike most previous
Chinese anthems, it is written entirely in the vernacular, rather than
in Classical Chinese.
Its lyrics were composed as a dramatic poem by the poet and
playwright, the Japan-educated Tian Han in 1934 and set to music by Nie
Er from Yunnan Province the next year for the film Children of Troubled
Times. It was adopted as the PRC's provisional anthem in 1949 in place
of the "Three Principles of the People" of the Republic of China and the
Communist "Internationale". When Tian Han was imprisoned during the
Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, the march was briefly and unofficially
replaced by "The East Is Red", then played without words, then played
with altered words. Restored to its original version, the "March of the
Volunteers" was raised to official status in 1982, adopted by Hong Kong
and Macau upon their restorations to China in 1997 and 1999,
respectively, and included in the Chinese Constitution's Article 136 in
2004. Macao officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the
People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western
side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Macau is bordered by the
city of Zhuhai in mainland China to the north and the Pearl River Delta
to the east and south. Hong Kong lies about 64 kilometres (40 mi) to its
east across the Delta. With a population of 650,900[3] living in an
area of 30.5 km2 (11.8 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region
in the world. A former Portuguese colony, it was returned to Chinese
sovereignty on 20 December 1999.
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