A most interesti feature of br. C."f. Wang's gat week ago orchestra which pi party a the Chinese folk songs on 8 but The instruments were the usual strings and reeds with the drums—no change made either in the structure the instruments or the techni of performance. The only novelty was in the notation of the printed music, which di very much from scores. which had formerly been in use, The tempo was indicated in the usual Italian terminology so that the ted with ws, The not, ein be indicated to the pert nature, strength, and length of the tone desired. seeking a nicthod of preparing Chinese music for symphony perform= helm his, some of the playing his Chinese, Japanese, and Javanese pice some instances, he adheres very strictly to the oriental ial and the person living in the East and familiar with his theme can well follow him, but occasionally, either his ear did it quite hear or the system of tation makes it impossible quite to transcribe what heard. There are other musicians at work on this sub-
Ject and it would be interesting to know exactly in what way: they manage to transcribe: quarter tones and how they in= dicate time for western instrumentation, The method em: ployed by those who attended the Garden Party is apparently new and is not known to musicians everywhere. Would it be possible to utilize this system the orchestration of Chinese so that pieces might be yed-on western instruments?
But then why use western instruments? Although the me struments in vogue in China fesent an arrested development, hey nevertheless have a value to themselves which jot be} ignored, Surely the predecessors of the modern violin and piano and flute and drams are musical group which need not be lost simply because more mature and perfect instruments have taken their place. It is even possible that some of the Chinese ments—particularly one instrument and some of the strings—might be incorpor ied in the western orchestra when once they are better known,
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