Tang Dynasty music 唐代音乐 and dance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Jan. 5, 2022)

A brief video about a January 5, 2022 concert at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, entitled "Si Lu Zhi Yue: Tang Yun Huixiang"《丝路之乐·唐韵回响》(Music of the Silk Road: Echoes of Tang Melodies), which featured reconstructed music (played on period instruments), dance, attire, and makeup of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), with accompanying digital projections featuring images from the Mogao and Kizil Caves, as well as pages from Medieval scores of Tang music.

The concert was co-organized by Shanghai Conservatory of Music musicology professor Dr. Zhao Weiping (赵维平, planning and artistic director) and Dai Xiaorong (代晓蓉, producer and visual director), who serves as the director of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's School of Digital and Media Arts. Professor Xu Jianqiang (徐坚强) served as the conductor, and Professor Wu Qiang (吴强) served as the ensemble director. Professor Zhang Lin (张麟) and Associate Professor Zhuang Li (庄丽) were invited to serve as dance director and designer.

Among the excerpts demonstrated in the video are pieces from the Dunhuang Scores, known in Chinese as Dunhuang Yuepu 《敦煌乐谱》, Dunhuang Qupu《敦煌曲谱》, Dunhuang Juanzipu《敦煌卷子谱》, or Dunhuang Pipa Pu 《敦煌琵琶谱》, which were found in Mogao Cave 17 near Dunhuang in Gansu province, northwest China. They comprise 25 pieces in pipa tablature with instructions for the tablature (manuscript P.3539), plus an additional incomplete piece (manuscript P.3719), all written on the backs of scrolls containing Buddhist texts. These three manuscripts, which were among up to 50,000 manuscripts that had been stored in the cave since it was walled off for unknown reasons early in the 11th century, were taken in 1908 to the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris by the French sinoloist Paul Pelliot (1878-1945).

This video was filmed at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (上海音乐学院), Shanghai, China, January 5, 2022, and published on the Facebook page of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music on January 13, 2022.

Thanks to Mr. Guilherme Antonio Ferreira for bringing my attention to this video.

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