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    Part IV of my music history paper （about chinese elements in western music）

    What was the first-time when western people heard a Chinese melody? It is impossible to give a satisfying answer. However, in one cave from Tang Dynasty (from about 1500 years before now) at Mogao Caves (also known as Caves of the Thousand Buddhas), archaeologists found transcripts of Nestorianism hymns and chants with Chinese translation. It is reasonable to suspect that the person who brought those transcripts to China should have chance to hear localized Buddhist chants in such a Sinicized Buddhist sanctuary.

    However, if you ask what the most popular Chinese melody in western classic music is. The answer could only be Mo Li Hua (The Jasmine Flower). This is a Chinese folk song came from my hometown Jiangsu province and is dated back to 18th century in Qing Dynasty. You can find it in Puccini’s Turandot, in Arensky’s Etude sur un Thème Chinois and in 2015’s film Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

    It must be admitted that a folk melody from my hometown, which has such an international reputation, must reflect credit on Puccini and his opera. The lavish business of opera is at the top of classic music’s hierarchies , before there was a film industry, this genre was similar to today’s Hollywood movies in terms of its popularity. However, Puccini was not the first composer to compose music for Princess Turandot. The script of Turandot originated from a French translation of a collection of Arabic stories in early 18th century, under the name of Les mille et une Nuits. According to Kii-Ming Lo's study, even in 19th century, there were at least five composers had already composed operas for that story.

    However, Puccini's Turandot was completed by his students in 1926. This is 14 years later since the Republic of China replaced the monarchy Qing Dynasty and just one year before the foundation of the first Chinese Occidentalized conservatory in Shanghai. For Puccini and his contemporaries, it is not a mission impossible to get a melody from China. Besides Puccini’s and his peers, what about other composers, especially for those who active in 18th and 19th centuries? What musical resources they had, if they want to add some oriental taste for their cold-hearted Chinese princess?
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    Both are correct, the first is more casual and more likely to be said in American English. In British English, especially if writing and wanting to use more formal English, you might find the first form used more like this: 'You can go WHENever you want', whereas you'd more likely write 'WHEREver you want TO'. The 'where' takes the 'to'. But to be honest, no-one would look at you oddly if you used either in conversational English.
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    Catenation refers to the linkage of atoms in a chain such as a series of carbon atoms in an organic molecule. It's quite an old fashioned and certainly a very technical term only really used in chemistry.

    It has 4 syllables: cat - en - a - tion and is pronounced like it looks, phonetically. The emphasis is on the third syllable - ooOo, which has a short a, as in Asian.

    Another similar word you may see in more general usage is concatenation, which means a linkage of similar things, e.g. there was a concatenation of events which led to their imprisonment


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