雨打芭蕉
China / Chinese instrumental music
Rain on the Banana Leaves
One of the best-loved pieces of Cantonese music, its quick, pattering figures suggesting rain on broad leaves. Played on solo gaohu in the version Qiu Hechou published in his 1917 collection Xiange bidu.
- Performer
- Zhang Peijian (張沛堅)
- Composer
- Traditional; arranged by Qiu Hechou (丘鶴儔) in Xiange bidu (1917)
- Instrument
- Gāohú 高胡
- Length
- 4:15
- Licence
- CC BY-SA · Zhang Peijian (張沛堅), recorded by David290, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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