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May 20, 2013 at 03:21 AM My daughter needs to buy the Butterfly Lovers Concerto (for violin and piano) music sheet. She will be playing this beautiful piece thankfully after enduring the Saint-Saens concerto. BLC is not at Chappell's or Chimes at RAM so where else in London can we get it? I did a quick search and am not keen to buy online having been a victim of credit fraud before. Is there another shop bigger than Chimes and Chappell's in London?
May 20, 2013 at 02:53 PM I'm in the US and bought the violin/piano book as well as a full score in a local music shop here that was able to obtain it regularly. We have a a fairly large Chinese population in the area where I live and the work is requested fairly frequently. :)
May 22, 2013 at 09:59 PM Available in the US from JohnsonString Music. They import from the publisher HNH International Ltd/ Naxos in Hong Kong. The orchestra score and parts are on rental only directly from HNH.
May 28, 2013 at 04:37 PM I no longer have a Paypal account & cannot therefore buy online in US$ so I have just asked someone in HK to help find it there and buy it for us. It's going to be performed in a literature festival so: Thanks, everyone, for trying.
June 14, 2013 at 07:20 PM My nephew it seems is mistaken. He has now reverted to say he cannot find the BLC sheet music for violin and piano in any music shop in Hong Kong. Can any HK violinist on this forum suggest where else he can look in HK? [My daughter has been invited by a literature festival to perform a concerto directly inspired or well known to be inspired, by a folk/written story and she cannot think of any other concerto along these lines - inspired by literature?] Can anyone from HK, suggest where in HK, my nephew should try looking? It's definitely not available in London.
May 8, 2007 at 03:39 AM Here I am at it again. Last year I gave away my only 2 copies of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto music sheet for violin and piano (without even asking for postal cost). A copy went to San Francisco as a birthday present to a lady who heard the music for the first time and fell in love with it. The other copy went to a Sydney mother who wanted her daughter to appreciate this particular Chinese music. Her mother passed away the year before and the concerto was one of her favourites.
Why am I doing this? I know this music sheet is impossible to get outside of China. The music has touched so many people and I'd like to do my small part to help spread the music, so other people can enjoy learning and playing the music.
Bless your heart, William! I've got the sheet and played the slow movements many times. Not an esay piece to do it right, as the elements of Yue Opera that this piece has clearly incorporated need to be balanced with this western instrument, and IMHO, making it to soud like an erhu is the last thing one should do but could be tempting to some of us.
May 8, 2007 at 08:09 PM I'm not sure about the availability of the sheet music...Morey's Music in Lakewood, CA seems to carry both the piano/violin part as well as a score for the "The Butterly Lovers Concerto" in stock (that's where I've sent people locally to purchase it, but it's definitely an import).
Trust me, it will cost me much more to photocopy it in Australia than to purchase the original copy in China. Plus, I'm a big fan of protecting music copyright. Musicians are already suffering with people "stealing" their income. I don't want to take part in that.
May 9, 2007 at 12:47 AM When I said I wasn't sure if it went through, I was just curious because I sent a request before it was posted that there were still 4 copies available, meaning that my request hasn't been received or didn't go through. I hope I'm not being too confusing!
Those that want the music sheet, please only request if you are genuinely going to use it. I would hate to think that it is going to be covered in dust instead of giving it to someone who will really appreciate the music.
Send your request to my email directly instead of through v.com. Please provide your name and postal address. A story of how you come accross the concerto, why it is meaningful to you etc. would be nice (but not necessary).
June 8, 2014 at 05:06 AM Where did you buy it in China and how much did it cost ? I am going there in October/November : Hangzhou, Yichang, Nanjing and Shanghai. I might keep an eye out for it. I would also like to pick up some traditional Chinese music arranged for the violin (not the Chinese violin).
and about its origins in yue-opera. The premiere of the violin concerto was 27/5/1959 (violin and orchestra) and 4/5/1959 (violin/piano performed by the composers, students at that time). Before the cooperation between He and Chen there existed already some melodies in a Liang-Zhu string quartett, called "Little Liang-Zhu", written by He Zhan-Hao and some of its classmates.
Available is a Full score published in China with a copyright date of 1979, a computer printed Large size full score printed in the US and a Violin/piano reduction printed in China with only the program notes in English.
Arranged for soloist and chamber ensemble, typically consisting of a quintet of wind players and a string quintet, these new arrangements provide soloists with an opportunity to rehearse and perform major repertoire under conditions closely resembling a full orchestral setting. They provide valuable practice for small ensembles to work with soloists and an ideal vehicle for student conductors to work with major solo repertoire. The violin and piano version of the violin concerto is also available (AEGC11).
The Butterfly Lovers was written by He Zhan-hao and Chen Gang in 1959 while they were students of the Shanghai Conservatory. Musically, the concerto is a synthesis of the Eastern and Western traditions although the melodies and overall style are derived from the opera of Shanghai.
The original version of the concerto has a marked traditionally oriental colour. In the spirit of the Shanghai opera, the concerto, as a whole, conveys on a musical level aspects of a traditional Chinese painting in its light and calm mood.
Chen later revised the original score in an attempt to intensify the dramatic power of the music by further contrasting both the tempi and the dynamics of the concerto. The result is that the later version sounds far more Western and further removed from the Shanghai opera which inspired its antecedent.
Although the concerto is written in sonata form it is also strongly programmatic. The narrative is based on Chinese folklore and tells the story of the lovers Liang Shan-po and Zhu Ying-tai. Liang Shan-po has been studying with Zhu Ying-tai, disguised as a boy, for many years during which Ying-tai has fallen in love with Shan-po who is ignorant of her true gender. One day, Ying-tai is summoned home, where her family has arranged for her to marry a wealthy neighbour. She is, therefore, forced to part from Shan-po, in a tender scene by a bridge.
After a time, Shan-po, greatly missing his companion, attempts to visit Ying-tai's house where he finds out from a servant that Ying-tai is a girl and about to be married. Only then does he understand what Ying-tai had so often tried to tell him, and in his bitter despair he falls ill and dies.
On learning of the death of Shan-po, Ying-tai visits his grave and in her grief begs his tomb to open. There is a clap of thunder, the tomb breaks open and Ying-tai leaps into the grave, from which the two lovers emerge as butterflies and fly away together, finally reunited.
Techniques of the Chinese string instrument, the er-hu, are used by the violin in this concerto and this serves to emphasise the Chinese character of the work.
Kremer composed and arranged nearly one hundred pieces of music. He was the author of several piano and organ music books including, 34 Christmas Songs and Carols, For All Organs(1962), 39 Steps; An Exciting, New, Amazingly Simple Self Instructor For Piano Or Organ (1962), Chord Studies; Simplified Course In Keyboard Harmony Which Will Enable You To Have Fun Playing Your Favorite Tunes The Way You'd Like To, (1957), Folk Song Solo-ettes, With Chord Symbols And Pictures For All Instruments(1963) and Solo-ettes For All Instruments With Chord Symbols and Pictures (1962).
The collection contains musical scores composed and arranged by Brainerd Kremer. Included as well are also draft manuscript pages that were eventually published. His published music books in this collection include: 39 Steps to Play The Piano,34 More Hit Parade Extra's For All Organs,Another 34 Hit Parade Extras for All Organs, and Kremer's Chord Studies. There are also published sheet music, and unpublished sketches, lead sheets and piano/vocal scores.
The GRAMMY Awards may get far more attention, but no event during GRAMMY Week is more significant or heartfelt than The Recording Academy's Special Merit Awards Ceremony. Taking place at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Feb. 9, the ceremony recognized artists, technical professionals and executives who have made significant contributions to our culture in general and the music industry in particular.
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