Dr. Koo Plays The Chinese Flute
Dr. Koo frequently intrigues his audiences by producing a Chinese flute and playing old Chinese folk music to them. This is no mere eccentricity, for Dr. Koo is an authority on Chinese music, and has collected and published a selection of folk songs. As so often happens with folk music, the songs of the Chinese people, as distinct from operatic and more ‘sophisticated music, had been passed on from father to son for centuries, but had never been written down. Dr. Koo has set them down in ordinary musical notation. Chinese music uses the pentatonic scale of five out of the usual seven notes, and converting it to standard notation is no small feat. The flute Dr. Koo uses is a chromatic one, and he has twice given recitals from the BBC.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 101, 30 May 1941, Page 7
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138Dr. Koo Plays The Chinese Flute New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 101, 30 May 1941, Page 7
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