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The music depicts hundreds and thoudands of hektare's lake. Fisherfolk are in a comfortable life and the boats are driving to the distance.
Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk: a typical classical koto music of He Nan. It is a sole koto music which has a board and deep impact since the third decade of 20th.
In 1938, Lou Shuhua used the old music 《Gui Qu Lai》as the fodder and developed according to the characters of koto. He cited the sentence “Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk” of Wang Bo’s 《Teng Wang Ge Xu》as its title. In the recent years, some people considered that this music was adapted by Jin Zhuonan from Shan Dong and based on the 《shuang Ban》 and the anamorphosis of 《Liu Shui Ji Shi》, 《Er Huan Tao Yue》. However, Lou Shuhua only has a big improvement on music book and add the later part of the music. However, both parlances are not validated.
The beginning of the music is in a low pace and in elegance which depicts the picture of the setting sun shine on the lake. Then, the tone is descending gradually and changing repeatedly. It adopts wusheng scale skill in order to display the interest of Songs of Fishing Boats at Dusk. Then, the most distinctive characters of this music begin. It uses the ascending and descending repeatedly and at the same time quicken gradually. The music is up and down which displays the wave and the boat drives to the distance. This music is an excellent koto music and adapted into two-stringed Chinese fiddle, koto duet and the sole of violin.
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