The author of "Entertainment and Peace" is Qiu Heqian.
"Entertainment and Peace" is a popular piece of music in Guangdong. The author is Qiu Hechou, a Guangdong music performer and composer. The main instruments played in the music are Gaohu and Yangqin. The music not only maintains and promotes the traditional characteristics of Guangdong music, but also draws on some European professional composition techniques, making innovations and breakthroughs in style. The music expresses a fresh, lively, optimistic musical mood.
The music of "Entertainment Shengping" was first published in 1927, and the score was published in "Chinese and Western Musical Scores of String Songs" compiled by Shen Yunsheng in 1929. The author uses concise musical language and typical rhythm throughout the whole song, with distinctive rhythm and bright tone. , high-spirited, vividly showing the two scenes of entertainment and peace through smooth notes before people's eyes.
Introduction to Qiu Heqian
Qiu Heqian (1880-1942), a Guangdong music performer, composer, educator, and one of the founders of Guangdong music. Good at Yangqin, Erxian, Suona, Gaohu, etc. He proposed the "Ten Degrees of Bamboo Techniques", which was the earliest theory to study the technical characteristics of the dulcimer in Guangdong music. He also created and compiled music such as "Entertainment Shengping" and "Lion Rolling Ball".
Qiu Heshu was born in Natai Township, Xinning County, Guangdong Province; in 1894, he traveled to Southeast Asia for a living; in 1899, he settled in Hong Kong, founded a private school, and was engaged in teaching Guangdong folk music; in 1916, Qiu Heshu took the lead in editing and publishing Guangdong music reference book "Xian Ge Must Read", and then successively compiled and published "New Edition of Qin Xue", "New Sound of Chinese Music", and "Essence of Qin Score", is considered to be the "enlightener and developer of Guangdong music" and is recognized One of the founders of Guangdong music. In 1934, Qiu Heqian made a special trip to New York and other places in the United States to perform.