Title: Deep in the night

Arranger:Tong Leung-tak

Year: January 1979

Genre:

• Large ensemble
• Arrangement
• Chinese orchestral music

Call No.: SC432

Description: Ye shenchen is a "labelled tune" (qupai) in Peking opera. Both its title and its melody originated in Si fan ("Longing for Worldly Pleasure"), a famous excerpt from a late Ming classical kunqu opera. Generations of Peking opera instrumentalists renewed the original melody through the use of traditional variation techniques. In 1979, Tong Leung-tak arranged Ye shenchen as "Deep in the Night" for a small Chinese instrumental ensemble, in which the Peking opera fiddle (jinghu) is the leading instrument and the Chinese big drum (dagu) has a solo section.

Note:

• Orchestral arrangement of the same title of Peking opera qupai
• Part score refers small cymbals as "money" cymbals

Instrumentation: di (1), xiao (1), sheng (1), yangqin (1), liuqin (1), pipa (1), zhong ruan (1), da ruan (1), xiao sanxian (1), zheng (1), da gu (1), xiao gu (1), da luo (1), xiao luo (1), jing luo (1), small cymbals (1), suspended cymbal (1), erhu (1), zhonghu (1), jinghu/jing erhu (1), dahu (1), cello (1)