
John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in Western musicology (early music) and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 150 melodies published in 15th and 16th century handbooks.
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Guqin Sample: Melody Of The Fisherman's Song
Marching Song of the 3rd Light Horse
El Shaddai
Melody Of The Fisherman's Song
Trench Medley (Hanging On the Old Barbed Wire/ I Want to Go Home/ If You Were the Only Girl in the World
A Warm Sunny Day
The Fire
One Of These Days
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Guqin Sample: "Melody of the Fisherman's Song"
PresQu'ilapollooza
All My Dreams
Sand Lake
Live In Harmony
The Dragoon Song
Parking Lot Blues
Can't You See (What You're Doing To Me)
Sanctuary
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Jimmy Strikes A Deal In Philly
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John Thompson Interview
Changing Light
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Patterns
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Music Land
Li Ling Si Han
Fighting Hard
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Be a Man, Enlist Today
Liu Shang
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Runaway River
Introduction
Intro
Nayshya Little
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Feng Qiu Huang
Tiao Xian Pin
Yu Ge
Zui Yu Chang Wan
Gu Guan Yu Shen
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