The most difficult suona piece to play is "A Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix".
The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is one of the most comprehensive skills in the suona repertoire. For the player, this piece requires the use of suona blowing techniques such as spit, glissando, flower tongue, finger flower, trill, as well as swallowing, spitting, padding, hitting, wiping, pressing, etc., as well as the tongue rushing tone, gas rushing tone, rebound tone, anti-double spit, continuous popping tone, gas and lip with trill, finger and gas with trill, and other difficult techniques.
The "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is a folk music ensemble piece called "Drum and Blow Music" or "Drum Music", which was first popularized in Henan, Shandong, Hebei and Anhui, and is one of the ten most famous pieces of Chinese folk instrumental music, which depicts the harmony of birds and the sound of their voices in a lively and joyful melody. It is one of the ten most famous Chinese folk instrumental songs. It depicts the sound of hundreds of birds singing in harmony and celebrates the beauty of nature.
The "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" was originally called "Ten Kinds of Scenery", and it is the most representative of many suona tunes, interpreting the expressive power of the suona to an extreme. The sound of the music of Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix has warblers singing and swallows dancing, and there is the fragrance of birds and flowers, a vibrant scene of nature.
Basic information about suona
Suona, a traditional Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument. As early as the 3rd century AD, suona with the opening of the Silk Road, from Eastern Europe, West Asia around the introduction of China, is a member of the world family of oboe musical instruments, after thousands of years of development, so that the suona has its unique temperament and tone, has been a representative of China's national wind instruments.
The tone of suona is majestic, the tube body is mostly made of rosewood and sandalwood, conical, the top is equipped with a double reed made of reeds connected to the wooden tube body through a copper or silver core, and the lower end of the tube is covered with a copper bowl, and there are chromatic and treble keys in the oboe, which expands the range of the instrument and increases its expressive power. In Taiwan, it is known as drum blowing; in the south, it is one of the "eight notes" instruments, and in Henan and Shandong, it is known as trumpet, and the traditional suona has the classic repertoire of "Birds of Prey" and "Yu Xi Er Ba Pan".
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - suona