OH mairdie! you brought us another litte jewel! Thanks so much!
The bearded horseman appears to be a westerner! I was surprised to see that! Or did I miss the oriental epicanthic fold?
And yes,... the horses are amazing.
I am beginning to realize I like classic Chinese music!
Many, many thanks, tex. That music was so very different from anything else I’d used but it made me immediately think of cowboy movies of my youth. I’ve been enjoying the classical music of other cultures, too. Never even thought about it before I needed it for appropriateness, but have been enjoying it. Picked up 4 or 5 traditional albums and was surprised at how many were enjoyable to use. Typically I’ll buy an album and only be willing to use 1 or 2 songs per, and sometimes none. I always make it a point to buy the albums when I want to use the music.
And my apologies. My discussion of the music was for the newest piece. I actually like the music that you were responding to much better than the newest one. And the horses in BOTH are great. There is one artist I adore whose horses are breathtaking, but he doesn’t do scrolls, so he’s only in the big historical Chinese video. But I’ve been tempted to collect all of his horses into one video. What I really love about the horses is that the artists put so much emotion into the eyes of the horses that they are as much individuals as the people.
>>The bearded horseman appears to be a westerner! I was surprised to see that! Or did I miss the oriental epicanthic fold?
Han.
“In the scene at right, there is a red-robed official scanning a document while sitting on a huchuang (a kind of stool introduced from the minority ethnic groups to the Central Plain during the Three Kingdoms Period). He is the central figure of the first scene. To the left of that, at the scroll’s center, four scholars sit on a dais, attended by a group of female servants. Two of the scholars are collating books while the other two seems to be in an argument. This scene of ten people is the crux of the painting. On the far left of the scroll, two grooms lead horses behind a red-robed official of the Han ethnicity.”