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| Title | Three Mountainscapes : Hymn to a Sacred Mountain, Op 31, Nos 1-3 |
| Contributors |
John Rose (composer) Tu Fu (author) Li Po (author) Wang Wei (author) |
| Composition date | 2010 |
| Duration (mins) | 0 |
| Category | accompanied vocal |
| Instrumentation | B-Bar Pf |
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| First line | T'ai Shan, Ancestor of all Mountains, what can be said of you? |
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| Notes | 1. Hymn to a Sacred Mountain (Tu Fu); 2. Heaven's Gate Mountains (Li Po); 3. On Returning to Song Shan (Wang Wei). |
| Programme Note | 1. Hymn to a Sacred Mountain (Tu Fu) Tai Shan in Shandong province is the most easterly of China's five sacred mountains. It similarly carries a cluster of Daoist temples on its summit. It was once believed that mountains were the origin of 'the ten thousand things' - or everything - , where yin and yang oscillate endlessly; yin and yang being the female and male principles underlying all existence. Tai Shan is still a popular centre of pilgrimage. 2. Heaven's Gate Mountains (Li Po) The Chu River issues from between the twin peaks of the Heaven's Gate Mountains in Anhui Province, which Li Po visited during his last years in exile. 3. On Returning to Song Shan (Wang Wei) Song Shan (Lofty Mountain), one of the five Daoist sacred mountains, lies at a midpoint between China's four other sacred mountains, just south of Chang'an (Perpetual Peace), the capital city of several dynasties. Wang Wei created a country estate there, to which he returned whenever possible. |
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