Mu Yang Qu(The Herdsman's Song) | Bamboo Flute Sheet Music

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The song Mu Yang Qu(The Herdsman's Song) was born in 1982. It is an interlude of the domestic martial arts film Shaolin Temple . It was composed by the renowned composer Wang Liping and sung by the soprano Zheng Xulan. Taking the natural scenery of Songshan Mountain in Henan Province as the blueprint, the song depicts the tranquil life in the mountains and the innocent feelings of a young girl from the perspective of a shepherdess. It forms a sharp contrast with the passionate and heroic martial arts scenes in the film and becomes an important footnote to the artistic style of "combining hardness and softness" in the movie.
The music is based on the pentatonic scale and arranged in the Gong mode. The timbres of the bamboo flute and the guzheng in the prelude outline the ethereal feeling of the mountains and forests, and the erhu solo in the interlude adds an oriental charm. As a representative of pop music in the early days of reform and opening up, the song breaks through the limitations of traditional film soundtracks, combines national music with pop singing styles, and becomes a model for cross-domain dissemination.
From a fleeting glimpse on the screen to being passed down through generations at the national level, The Herdsman's Song is not just an interlude of a film, but also a witness to the transition of Chinese music from tradition to modernity. The landscape scroll painted with musical notes still tells the eternal charm of Eastern aesthetics. Whether it is listened to as a nostalgic recollection or for the first time, this golden song that spans four decades can always help people find their spiritual home in the melody.
The musical score of this song is in the key of E, and it can be played with an E-tuned flute using the tube tone as 5.

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