![]() ![]() The music describes how the armies set up camp, ambushed the enemy troops, and fought fiercely. This defeat led to the establishment of the Han dynasty. ![]() The Han army ambushed the Chu army on ten sides and finally defeated the powerful Chu leader Xiang Yu, who committed suicide. Structured in a traditional storytelling form, Shi Mian Mai Fu depicts the epic battle in 202 BCE between the kingdoms of the Han (ruled by Liu Bang) and the Chu (ruled by the warlord Xiang Yu). Perhaps the best known of all traditional pipa works, this piece is a grand opus of the martial school of pipa music. Shi Mian Mai Fu (Ambush laid on ten sides) The Sound of Bells and Drums from a Distant Temple along the River The present score, having eight sections with subtitles, is taken from Li Fangyuan’s New Collections, dated 1895. It was later discovered in 1898 with subtitles among Chen Zijing’s handwritten collection of pipa music. Xi Yang Xiao Gu (Flute and drum music at sunset)Ī handwritten score for this piece, with seven untitled sections, first appeared in 1875. ![]()
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