Music · ST10511
Xi'an Wind and Percussion Ensemble
Suites of old Chang'an music, flute-led with drums, played seated or in procession.
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Mural guide
Through golden autumn fields, a lead musician beats a red drum slung at his waist as he walks, followed by a band playing cymbals, flutes and sheng along the road. A crowd gathers by a hillside temple beneath blue mountains.
Xi'an's wind-and-drum music of the temple fairs, handed down in old manuscript notation