Mido Mountain, arr. 2001

arr. Wu Tong
China

Instrumentation:
cello, pipa (plucked lute), sheng (mouth organ), erhu (bowed lute), bass, percussion (4), tabla (Indian drums)

Mido Mountain appears on the Sony Classical release Silk Road Journeys: When Strangers Meet. According to Silk Road Ensemble member Wu Tong, Mido is a village in China's mountainous Yunnan Province where the villagers sing in large groups with much frivolity.