Chinese Folk Song Suite
General Info
Year of Published: 2025
Publisher: Edition Svitzer
Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: €60.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Vibraphone & Xylophone
Player 2: Marimba 1 (Shared with Player 3)
Player 3: Marimba 2 (Shared with Player 2)
Player 4: Marimba 3 (Shared with Player 5)
Player 5: Marimba 4 (Shared with Player 4)
Player 6: Drumsets & Glockenspiel & Sichuan Opera Gong (optional: Chinese Opera Gong)
Description
Chinese Folk Songs Suite was commissioned by my mentor, Professor Li Biao, for his percussion concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Percussion Section at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2025.
Scored for percussion sextet, the work presents five representative Chinese folk songs: the Jiangsu folk song Jasmine Flower (arr. HE Fang), the Guangdong folk song Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon (REN Guang), the Xinjiang folk song Girl from Dabancheng (WANG Luobin), and the Sichuan folk songs Kangding Love Song (WU Wenji & JIANG Dingshan) and Joyful Sun Coming Out (JIN Gu).
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Marimba Solo
Anxiety - Two Movements for Marimba Solo
Dance for Yao People
Delay with Electronics
When Spring Comes
Wild LEO
Vermillion Bird
Yes!!! - Marimba and Electronics
Snare Drum Solo
Multiple Percussion Solo
Gazing on Mountain TAI - Chinese Traditional Percussion
The General - Percussion Duo - Marimba and Chinese Traditional Percussion
Rain the Blind Monk - Multiple Percussion
Saturn's Rings - 4 players on 1 Marimba and percs
SPACE TIME - Snare Drum, Cymbal and Tape
When the sun goes down - Solo for Hand-Percussion-Setup and Tape
Concerto Works
Percussion Ensemble
5imple Quintet - 5 Players
2620 STARS - 12 Players
A Sky Full of Stars - 12 Players
All River Run Into Sea - 5 Players
Atoms for 4 - 4 Players
Brave Troops - Percussion Duo
Chinese Folk Song Suite - 6 Players
FACE2FACE - Percussion Duo
Fly - Hand Pan, 4 Percussion; Percussion Quintet
Impression (Liu) - 5 Players
Impression II - Percussion Duo
LIBER TANGO X - 6 Players
Memory - Percussion Trio - Mallet Trio
Monkey Play - Percussion Quartet
Oub-duO - Percussion Duo