Title: Thousand miles of fertile fields

Arranger:Tong Leung-tak

Year: [1980]

Genre:

• Large ensemble
• Original composition
• Chinese orchestral music

Call No.: SC478

Description: "Thousand Miles of Fertile Fields" is a modern Chinee orchestral piece, for which Tong Leung-tak is credited as the arranger, whereas the composer's identity is not indicated on the existing score. Similar to Tong's "Battle Against the Tai Hang Mountain," this piece celebrates the agricultural achievement of peasants living around the foot of the Taihang Mountains during the 1960s. It draws on musical elements commonly found in the folk and traditional music in Henan Province. It roughly follows a tripartite formal structure with a fast and lively first section, a slower, song-like middle section, and a third section that marks the return of the first section in an elaborated form. It employs a full range of instruments from the modern Chinese orchestra, including yunluo ("pitched cymbals"), which play a solo passage at the beginning of the piece.

Note:

Instrumentation: bang di (1), qu di (2), sheng (1), haidi (1), zhongyin suona (1), diyin suona (1), yangqin (1), liuqin (1), pipa (1), zhong ruan (1), da ruan (1), sanxian (1), zheng (1), timpani (1), bass drum (1), da luo/cymbals/large cymbals (1), yunluo (1), erhu (1), zhonghu (1), banhu (1), cello (1), double bass (1)