Author Question: What are the performance contexts of the two folk song renditions? What will be an ideal ... (Read 51 times)

wenmo · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

What are the performance contexts of the two folk song renditions?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Follow the Close Listening guide as you listen to CD 2:9, the folk song Releasing the Horse into Pasture. A short interview with Zhao along with her filmed performance of Releasing the Horse into Pasture may by found on WOM s website. Compare and contrast the two singers and their folk songs (Jins Weeding Song and Zhaos Releasing the Horse into Pasture.)

What will be an ideal response?

jsm54321 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Each performer sustains the tradition of his/her song in a new setting: Jin's as folkloric hobby he was also a local cultural officer in addition to being an agricultural worker and Zhao's in the sphere of music education she learned her song as a student in a Chinese conservatory of music.

Answer to Question 2

Both songs use a two-phrase design with vocal cries added to the solo singing.
Releasing . . . is more straightforward in structure.
Releasing . . . is in a clear duple meter vs. the free metered Weeding Song.
Zhao's repertory includes songs from all across the Chinese world, while Jin's repertory is a local set of tunes and songs.
Jin learned to reshape one main melody to fit a wide range of song texts; Zhao memorized in the classroom a contrasting series of fixed-format songs.
Jin sings in Wu, a local dialect in his region; Zhao sings her songs in the widely used Mandarin Chinese.