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Yang Yinliu
Music historian who edited hymnals and flute scores, wrote general histories of Chinese music, and in 1950 with Cao Anhe recorded A Bing's Erquan yingyue and other pieces.
Mural of the event “Gathering the Folk Music”, which this person took part in.
In 1950 the Institute of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory was issued an imported portable wire recorder. On the evening of 2 September that year the Wuxi folk musician Abing recorded the erhu pieces Moon Reflected on the Second Spring, Listening to the Pines and Cold Spring Wind at the Sansheng Pavilion beside Gonghuayuan park, and three pipa pieces the next day; he died on 4 December. From 1 to 14 April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, where more than three hundred folk artists gave over a hundred items, among them ensembles, a transverse-flute solo and folk wind music. That spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed, built on four sections: bowed strings, plucked strings, winds and percussion.
Also known as Zi Liangqing · Hao Erzhuang
Yang Yinliu, courtesy name Liangqing, came from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He learned silk-and-bamboo music and Kun opera as a youth and studied at St. John's and Kwang Hua universities in Shanghai. From 1923 he published the Yayin ji scores, and from 1928 he helped edit the Anglican union hymnal. He was a music research fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Peiping in 1936 and in the 1940s taught in the Chinese music department of the National Conservatory and at Ginling Women's College, publishing Guoyue gailun and an outline history of Chinese music in 1943. In 1950 he and his cousin Cao Anhe recorded A Bing in Wuxi. His later life was devoted to the history of ancient Chinese music, culminating in his Draft History of Ancient Chinese Music (1982). He died in Beijing in 1984.
Life and times
- 1899 CEBorn
Qing
Republican Era
Modern Era - 1446Zhihua Temple Forms Music Ensemble
In 1446 Zhihua Temple in Beijing began forming a music ensemble, and Wang Zhen moved part of the court's music into the temple, where Zhihua Temple music has been handed down ever since. - 1950Gathering the Folk Music
Took partage 51In September 1950 Yang Yinliu recorded six pieces by Abing in Wuxi; in April 1953 the Ministry of Culture held the first National Folk Music and Dance Festival in Beijing, and that spring the Central Broadcasting Folk Orchestra was formed.- Abing's Music Recorded in WuxiIn September 1950 Yang Yinliu and Cao Anhe used a wire recorder in Wuxi to record six pieces by Abing, among them The Moon Reflected in Erquan.
- Abing's Music Recorded in Wuxi
- 1984 CEDied
Works
Stage · Songs1- Slow Tune of YangzhouWinter solstice, 1176 (Southern Song)A song tune Jiang Kui created on passing Yangzhou at the winter solstice of 1176, with its notation preserved
