Autumn Heart

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Autumn Heart
秋心
Autumn Heart Cover.jpg
Studio album by Prudence Liew
Released 1992
October 23, 2006 (re-issue) [1]
Recorded 1992
Genre Cantopop
Label Columbia
Producer Prudence Liew
Prudence Liew chronology
不再娃娃 Not a Little Girl Anymore
(1992)
Autumn Heart
秋心

(1992)
被你縱壞 Spoiled By You
(1993)
Singles from 秋心 Autumn Heart
  1. "舊曲新愁 ( Old Song, New Sorrow )"
  2. "你的雙眼如深秋 ( Your Eyes Are Like a Deep Autumn)"
  3. "再讓我望你多一回 ( Let Me Look at You One More Time )"

秋心 Autumn Heart is the ninth studio album of cantopop singer Prudence Liew, released in 1992.

Cantopop music genre

Cantopop or HK-pop is a genre of popular music written in standard modern Chinese but sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowly declining in the 2000s and slight revival in the 2010s. The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock", a term first used in 1974. Cantopop reached its highest glory with a fanbase and concert reaching Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan especially with the influx of songs from Hong Kong movies.

Prudence Liew Mei-Gwan is a multi-platinum selling Hong Kong pop singer and Golden Horse Award winning actress, having released 16 studio albums and appearing in numerous films.

Contents

Background information

The Chinese title of the album is derived from the two characters autumn (秋) and heart (心) that combine to form the portmanteau Chinese character, sorrow (愁). The hidden meaning of the title is that the album deals with songs of sorrow and woe. [2] The lead single to the album, "舊曲新愁 ( Old Song, New Sorrow )" is arranged into two different versions in the album: A Some Version is arranged in a more traditional Chinese way with the inclusion of Yangqin in the music background. A Heartache Version is more modern with a stronger beat and urban feel to the song. [3]

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.

Yangqin Chinese musical instrument, a kind of hammered zither

The trapezoidal yangqin is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, derived from the Iranian santur. It used to be written with the characters 洋琴, but over time the first character changed to 揚, which means "acclaimed". It is also spelled yang quin or yang ch'in. Hammered dulcimers of various types are now very popular not only in China, but also Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, Iran, and Pakistan. The instruments are also sometimes known by the names "santur" and "cymbalom". This instrument had an influence on the Thai classical instrument, known as Khim (ขิม).

Track listing

  1. 舊曲新愁 ( Old Song, New Sorrow [ A Some Version ] )
  2. 女人心 ( A Woman's Heart )
  3. 你的雙眼如深秋 ( Your Eyes Are Like a Deep Autumn )
  4. 最後情人 ( The Last Lover )
  5. 舊曲新愁 ( Old Song, New Sorrow [ A Heartache Version ] )
  6. 再讓我望你多一回 ( Let Me Look at You One More Time )
  7. 驟然 ( Sometimes )
  8. 愛上別人的伴侶 ( Falling in Love with Someone Else's Mate )
  9. 了不起 ( Arrogance )
  10. 醉生笑夢死 ( A Drunken Life Laughing at a Dream's Death )

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