Chinese Folk Songs

• Zhou Long composed this suite for string quartet in 1998,¹ and it was published in 2002.²
• Zhou Long’s complete program notes for the suite can be found here (select the tab labeled “Description”). The notes include the composer’s descriptions of the songs which form the basis of each movement. 

Movements 

1. Lan hua-hua 
2. Driving the mule team 
3. The flowing stream 
4. Jasmine flower 
5. A horseherd’s mountain song 
6. When will the acacia bloom? 
7. A single bamboo can easily bend 
8. Leaving home 

1. Joanna C. Lee, “Zhou Long,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 7, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000048453.
2. Zhou Long, Chinese Folk Songs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).