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JUNE 25-29; JULY 2-6, 2014
LOG SHEET #5
SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL AUDIO/VIDEO LOG SHEET
LOGGER/VIDEOGRAPHER: MARY SINCLAIR
MEMORY CARD NUMBER - TASCAM: CFCH01
FILE NAME: Teahouse 0175
MEMORY CARD NUMBER - ZOOM H2: [[strikethrough]] 03 [[/strikethrough]] CFCH03
FILE NAME: STE 000
PRESENTER: Larry Witzleben
DATE/TIME: 07/05/2014 2:00
PROGRAM: China
STAGE: Teahouse
GROUP NAME: Behind the scenes of Zhejiang Wu Opera 
REGION/STYLE: Zhejiang Province

[[2 columned table]]
| PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION |
| --- | --- |
| Quanqing Jiang |   |
| Yen Jiang Lei | instrumentalist (suona) |

CONTENTS/NOTES (continue on back):
1. What he does in the opera, his background: from southeast coast of China, important regional form of opera. Nearly 400 years of history.
2. Six categories of vocal music. amount of types one of its special characteristics
3. Ancestor of Peking opera, only 200 years old
4. Pihuang most important form of singing with two subcategories.
5. Three different types of instruments: flute, string instrument, reed instrument
6. Demonstration of [[strikethrough]] nam [[/strikethrough]] reed instrument. In every opera, that tune or variation 
is played. 
7.
8. History of the instrument (suona) more than 1500 from Persia along Silk Road
[[strikethrough]] from Xinjiang in far north [[/strikethrough]] different regional versions of the suona. Important during events like weddings, funerals
Demonstration of tune for a sad occasion (suona), then happier piece
Audience question: based on pentatonic scale but can be translated into different scale, lots of sliding notes, not based on Western scale
Circular breathing. continuous sound for up to an hour, a lot like an oboe