12 girl band concerto 12
A prologue about Twelve Girls Band
Twelve Girls Band is a band from People’s Republic of China who is absolutely far away from the definition
of an ordinary band. They are super. Not only because the girls play instrumental music but also because
they gracefullymix western songs and composition within Chinese theme to be a wonderful arrangement.
Through their dizi, pipa, erhu, yangqin and guzheng, they deliver various genres of music. Sometimes
they perform in a calm symphony, but then they could easily jump into dynamic rock. one thing for sure,
composing western style into traditional-pentatonic taste is such a huge job. Chinese traditional music,
as well as other pentatonic music in the world, contains only 5 tones (compare with the diatonic music
containing the 1-7 tones we used to hear). Chinese traditional music doesn’t have the 4th and the 7th tone.
That’s why I said it is a big challenge to serve popular western song with traditional music devices.
12 girl band concerto 12 A prologue about Twelve Girls Band Twelve Girls Band is a band from People’s Republic of China who is absolutely far away from the definition of an ordinary band. They are super. Not only because the girls play instrumental music but also because they gracefullymix western songs and composition within Chinese theme to be a wonderful arrangement. Through their dizi, pipa, erhu, yangqin and guzheng, they deliver various genres of music. Sometimes they perform in a calm symphony, but then they could easily jump into dynamic rock. one thing for sure, composing western style into traditional-pentatonic taste is such a huge job. Chinese traditional music, as well as other pentatonic music in the world, contains only 5 tones (compare with the diatonic music containing the 1-7 tones we used to hear). Chinese traditional music doesn’t have the 4th and the 7th tone. That’s why I said it is a big challenge to serve popular western song with traditional music devices.