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(715~779)

This is an ancient Chinese poem written by Zhang Ji in the Tang

Dynasty. It has only 28 Chinese characters. Johnson K. Gao

composed a song for that poem in o!ember 2"#$ in %&'.

Call on singers. (eople may send )(* file of their recording of

that song for p+blication to,

-/gao0gmail.com

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ote,

#. The original song only has sections #1 21 $1 1 31 #"1 #* and #4

56oice '7. eca+se the Chinese poem is too short for singing1 I

added sections *1 41 91 81 ##1#21 #$ and # 56oice 7 to it with theso+nd :'h; to mae the time do+bled and gi!e the song with an

echoing effect. The sections #1 21 $1 1 31 #"1 #* and #4 56oice '7

constit+te the short !ersion of that song. 'nd it can be s+ng as an

independent song. That form of melody can also be +sed to read

other Chinese poem of 4 limes with 9 characters per line. 'nd

!oice ' and !oice can start to sing at the same time.

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Calligraphy of Zhang Jis Poem by Johnson Gao, written in 1985 in US!

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Calligraphy of Zhang Jis Poem by Catherine Gao, written in "#1" in US!