Category: ETHNIC MUSIC
Composer: Folk Song
Arranger: Chien Shan-Hua
Publisher: earthsongs
Edition: S-134
Voicing: SSAA
Setting: A Cappella
Reviewer:
Kathy Romey
University of Minnesota 2003
R&R Chair Ethnic Music
This lively pentatonic folk song from northeastern Taiwan exists in many different arrangements. The text describes the noises of the train as it travels from the I-Lan farm county into Taipei. The highly rhythmic setting uses onomatopoeic sounds to depict a train starting up slowly, gaining speed and reaching its destination with an “uuu” of the whistle.