Title: Fisher girl

Composer:Tong Leung-tak

Year: [19--]

Genre:

• Large ensemble
• Original composition
• Chinese orchestral music

Call No.: SC820

Description: Composed by Tong Leung-tak, "Fisher Girls" depicts a typical workday of the protagonists in four sections: "At Dawn," "Net Stitching," "Sailing," and "Return." The free and cheerful first section depicts the calmness at dawn; the second section maintains a moderate tempo, with upbeat and continuous leaps from plucked-string instruments imitating net-stitching movements; the fast rhythms in the third section allude to a scene of busy fishing in the sea; the final section ends the piece with expressive playing from the strings and the winds, which portrays a positive mood for returning home.

Note:

Instrumentation: bang di (1), ertong di (1), sheng (1), suona (1), haidi (1), yangqin (1), liuqin (1), pipa (1), ertong pipa (1), zhong ruan (1), da ruan (1), zheng (1), da gu (1), large cymbals (1), erhu (2), ertong erhu (1), zhonghu (1), cello (1), double bass (1)