Ah Hei

…Western music education was being carried out in big cities, and at the same time, popular music and jazz were being introduced from the West, and Chinese-made Western songs and songs became popular, overwhelming traditional music. During this period, the blind musician Hua Yanjun (1893-1950), known as Ah Bing, left behind masterpieces such as the Chinese lute piece Erquan Yingyue and the pipa piece Da Lang Taosha, while Liu Tianhua (1895-1932) adopted Western music techniques and demonstrated new techniques in the Chinese lute pieces Sky Mountain Bird Language, Sickness Recitation, and the pipa piece Song Hua Yin. He also founded the National Music Improvement Society to instruct the next generation, and published the Music Magazine in an effort to raise awareness. In contrast, Western composers such as Xian Xinghai and Nie Er expressed the energy of the people during the Anti-Japanese War and the revolution in works such as "The Yellow River" and "Song of Advancement."

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…大都市で洋楽教育が行われ，同時に流行音楽やジャズが欧米から入って，中国製洋楽歌謡がはやり，伝統音楽は圧倒されていった。この時期にあって，盲人音楽家の阿炳（あへい）で知られる華彦鈞（かげんきん）(1893‐1950)は，胡弓曲《二泉映月》，琵琶曲《大浪淘沙》などの名作を残し，劉天華（りゆうてんか）(1895‐1932)は洋楽的手法をとり入れ，胡弓曲《空山鳥語》《病中吟》，琵琶曲《歌華引》などで新技法を見せる一方，〈国楽改進社〉を結成し後進を指導し，《音楽雑誌》を出版して啓蒙活動にも努力した。これに対して，冼星海（しようせいかい），聶耳（じようじ）などの洋楽作曲家は，おのおの《黄河》や《前進歌》など，抗日戦争，革命のなかで，民衆のエネルギーを表現した。…

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