Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk (bamboo flute and zither) / 竹笛古筝二重奏《渔舟唱晚》

The music depicts hundreds and thoudands of hektare's lake. Fisherfolk are in a comfortable life and the boats are driving to the distance.

Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk: a typical classical koto music of He Nan. It is a sole koto music which has a board and deep impact since the third decade of 20th.

In 1938, Lou Shuhua used the old music 《Gui Qu Lai》as the fodder and developed according to the characters of koto. He cited the sentence "Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk" of Wang Bo's 《Teng Wang Ge Xu》as its title. In the recent years, some people considered that this music was adapted by Jin Zhuonan from Shan Dong and based on the 《shuang Ban》 and the anamorphosis of 《Liu Shui Ji Shi》, 《Er Huan Tao Yue》. However, Lou Shuhua only has a big improvement on music book and add the later part of the music. However, both parlances are not validated.

The beginning of the music is in a low pace and in elegance which depicts the picture of the setting sun shine on the lake. Then, the tone is descending gradually and changing repeatedly. It adopts wusheng scale skill in order to display the interest of Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk. Then, the most distinctive characters of this music begin. It uses the ascending and descending repeatedly and at the same time quicken gradually. The music is up and down which displays the wave and the boat drives to the distance. This music is an excellent koto music and adapted into two-stringed Chinese fiddle, koto duet and the sole of violin.


渔舟唱晚 乐曲描会了夕阳映照万顷碧波，渔民悠然自得，渔船随波渐远的优美景象。

渔舟唱晚：一首颇具古典风格的河南筝曲。是20世纪30年代以来，流传广、影响大的一首筝独奏曲。

娄树华于1938年以古曲《归去来》为素材，依据十三弦古筝的特点发展而成。并引用唐诗人王勃《腾王阁序》中"渔舟唱晚，穷响彭蠡之滨"为标题。近年来，有人认为此曲系山东金灼南根据《双板》及其变体《流水激石》、《二环套月》改编的，娄树华只是在金谱基础上作了较大发展，增加了乐曲的后半部分。两种说法尚未定论。

乐曲开头舒缓典雅，描绘夕阳斜照碧波的画面；接着音调逐层递降，反复变化，采用五声音阶回旋环绕技法，表现渔翁唱晚的情趣。接下来的是此曲最大的特色，就是用递升递降的的旋律多次反复演奏，并且逐渐加快，音乐跌宕起伏，表现了流水的层涌回荡，渔船随波渐远的情景，是一首蕴含诗情画意的优秀筝曲。曾被改编为高胡、古筝二重奏及小提琴独奏曲。