The Way of the Exploding Fist
Neil Brennan, ©1985 Melbourne House
- Comments for subsong #2
- TITLE: Dance of the Yao People
ARTIST: Liu Tieshan and Mao Yüan
COMMENT: Composed in 1950, "Dance of the Yao People" combined folk melodies
and rhythms of the Yao people from the Yunan province, southwestern
China. Information comes from the liner notes for "Phases of the
Moon", a 1981 compact disk published by CBS Records.
"Fred Milgrom (founder of MH) gave me heaps of latitude, for which I
can only be grateful. I actually studied Chinese and Japanese
recordings and instruments for some of these pieces, absurdly serious
as that may sound." (NB)