Half Moon Rising

Half Moon Rising offers a broad range of choirs an informed introduction to performing Chinese choral music. The collection includes: a representative and contrasting selection of works from the past century – folksongarrangements, pieces mixing traditional Chinese and Western Romantic styles, and contemporary settings of ancient poetry; a broad range of styles and dialects, illustrating the region’s rich diversity, all presented with thetransliterated original text; poetic English translations below the staves and introductions containing information on the composers/arrangers, performance notes, and literal English translations