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As an original Hakka pop song and the winner of 2019 Taiwan Music
  Composition and Songwriting Contest, Silver Grass is a song about missing and
  yearning, where Zoomie wishes to write a song her grandmother understands,
  which is also the momentum of writing songs in her native tongue
  (Hakka).
    
    The first half of the lyrics depicts the grandmother seeing two black
  drongos flying by in autumn and
    
    thinking of her late husband and son. The second half artfully arranges two
  Hakka folk rhymes related to black drongos, becoming catchy even for her
  grandmother. As for the choral arrangement, the arranger replaced the guitar
  accompaniment with vocal voices, and added piano to connect lyrical lines. In
  addition, a transposition is made to higher register for better projection of
  all voices. The arranger has managed to keep the carefree style of the
  original song, while introducing more musical diversity.

Silver Grass

SATB Octavo

This song is based on the poem of a true story describing a politically
  persecuted university professor and writer who is about to leave his beloved
  family and homeland in the middle of the night to save his life. His words
  describe how much he will miss his dearest child, and that he will hold him
  in his memory forever. The heartbroken father also gives final words of
  advice to encourage his child to become a knowledgeable person with strength
  of character.

The Apple of Daddy's Eyes

This childrens song comes from northern Taiwan which is known for its
  long rainy spells. The text tells of a story where grandpa is digging for
  taros in a cloudy day and has the good fortune to dig up a mudfish, but he
  and Grandma disagree on how it should be cooked. The stubborn couple keeps
  fighting
    
    and ends up breaking the cooking pot. The arranger uses harmonic and
  rhythmic changes to increase the
    
    tension between both of them.

Dark Clouds

Rain from the Sky is a work song from Hakka tea growers, also know as
  "Tea Picking Song", and this type of songs, closely connected to a
  form work, are also one of the major music genres in Hakka folk music.

Rain from the Sky

Taiwanese composer HSU Shih portrays his own experience in this work. He
  waits for his love until midnight under a lone street lamp. The prevailing
  atmosphere of gloom and mist reflects his depression and loneliness, unable
  to believe anyone
    
    shares his experience.

Midnight, Under the Street Lamp

A Taiwanese pop song which illustrates a street scene of the rain
  interrupting a show in a summer afternoon. While dark clouds drift in, the
  misty rain starts coming down on the tent which holds the local Taiwanese
  opera show on the street. Despite the falling rain, the drums start to roll,
  and the show goes on, but no applause is heard as hardly anyone stays around
  to watch the show.

An Afternoon Play

Lai Su is an ancient song of the indigenous Paiwan tribe, and has been
  down from one generation to the next for more than a thousand years. The
  lyrics describe a personas yearning for a loved one using the metaphor of a
  vine. aMy yearning for you is like a vine wrapped tightly around a big tree
  in the mountain.a

Lai Su

The young woman in this song is surrounded by some of the most beautiful
  scenery in the world, yet she is blind to it all...she is in love and can
  only think of her sweetheart!
    
    The Hakka people make up about 20% of the population of Taiwan, and
  maintain many aspects of their language and culture. This folk song has its
  roots with the Hakka people before they immigrated to Taiwan from the
  northeast Guangdong Province of China in the 17th century.

Hakka Love Song

The song was written in 1938 during the turmoil of the Sino-Japanese War
  and was more recently made popular by the Taiwanese singer Feng Fei-Fei. It
  portrays the uncertainty of unrequited love, the continual hope of this love
  being returned, and the desire to know whether there may be a future to be
  shared. On a deeper level, this song portrays the uncertainty of political
  freedom; over the past several hundred years, Taiwan has experienced rule by
  various foreign powers, leading to feelings of helplessness, loss of
  autonomy,
    
    and distrust of outsiders.

Wishing to Play the Same Tune

This song describes that time of day when the hustle and bustle of a busy
  life finally dies down and deeper, inner longings begin to emerge. It is when
  this time comes that a young woman wistfully recalls the romantic moments she
  shared with her beloved and longs to experience them once again.

When the World Quiets Down

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