Half Moon Rising offers a broad range of choirs an informed introduction to performing Chinese choral music. The collection includes: a representative and contrasting selection of works from the past century - folksong arrangements pieces mixing traditional Chinese and Western Romantic styles and contemporary settings of ancient poetry; a broad range of styles and dialects illustrating the region’s rich diversity all presented with the transliterated original text; poetic English translations below the staves and introductions containing information on the composers/arrangers performance notes and literal English translations