Thirteen Suites for Strings · SR100054
Song of Joyful Union
The twelfth of the thirteen suites in the Xiansuo Beikao
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 twelfth of the thirteen suites in the Xiansuo Beikao, second to last in the surviving manuscript of 1814 and followed only by The General's Command.