#897– Fifty strings outside the wall 塞外五十弦

This high-energy guzheng etude was created and recorded yesterday. I was reading another poem from the Song Dynasty called Po Zhen Zi 破阵子, a war song poem written by Xin Qiji 辛弃疾 (1140 - 1207 A.D.). The war song poems from the ancient times in China often were written for large court ensemble music and dance during banquets, religious ceremonies taken p…