Thirteen Suites for Strings · SR100043
Sixteen Beats
The first of the thirteen suites in the Xiansuo Beikao; Yang Yinliu wrote a study of it
Mural guide
After snowfall, plum blossoms open in a courtyard as musicians in fur-trimmed robes play in a sunlit hall. Two men pluck a pipa and a sanxian, a woman plays a zheng, and a young man bows a fiddle.
Part of · Thirteen Suites for Strings
The first of the thirteen suites in the Xiansuo Beikao, the subject of a study by Yang Yinliu. Its score survives in the gongche manuscript written down by Rongzhai and others in 1814.