歸去來兮辭

China / Poetry chanting

Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 06)

Tao Yuanming's poem, recited on one of the wax cylinders Paul Georg von Möllendorff had made for the 1900 Paris Exposition, where the same text was recorded in about sixteen Chinese languages and dialects. This is cylinder 06 of the set (UCSB Cylinder 21494). Which dialect it is has not been identified yet.

Performer
Unidentified reciter
Composer
Tao Yuanming (text)
Instrument
Voice 聲
Era
Late Qing
Length
2:05
Licence
Public domain · UCSB Library Cylinder Audio ArchiveRecorded about 1900; public domain in the US. Transfer: UCSB Library.
Source
UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

In the collection

  1. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning HomeVoice2:16
  2. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 02)Unidentified reciter · Voice2:25
  3. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 03)Unidentified reciter · Voice2:15
  4. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 05)Unidentified reciter · Voice2:22
  5. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 07)Unidentified reciter · Voice2:15
  6. 歸去來兮辭Guī qù lái xī cí — Returning Home (Möllendorff cylinder 08)Unidentified reciter · Voice1:58