Spring Festival Overture
Spring Festival Overture (Chinese: 春节序曲; pinyin: Chūnjié Xùqǔ) is a Chinese orchestral work composed by Li Huanzhi (李焕之) between 1955 and 1956, depicting the scene when folks in Shanbei region were celebrating the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). The tune is widely heard primarily in Mainland China, where it appears frequently in school music textbooks, as well as being played on various festive occasions.
In 2007 the work was selected to be carried and broadcast into space on China's first lunar probe, Chang'e 1.
References
- "Chinese Music to be played in outer space" (Listen), China.org.cn
- Li Huanzhi, Spring Festival Overture (Chinese)
- Sample melody inside a music textbook (Chinese) (Numerical notation) published by People's Education Press