SKU: KN.19532

UPC: 822795195323.

These 8 duets are destined to become a staple of school music libraries as they can be mixed or matched using any combination of the 10 different books for wind and string instruments. They can also be combined and played by a larger ensemble that has challenging instrumentation.

Contents:
Blue Light Special (Halferty); Canon In Two Parts (Halferty); Crescent Moon Rising (Chinese folk song); Dirty Dish Rag (Halferty); Farandole (Bizet); March (Bach); The Rakes Of Mallow (Irish folk song); and Two Russian Folk Songs.

SKU: KN.19542

UPC: 822795195422.

These 8 duets are destined to become a staple of school music libraries as they can be mixed or matched using any combination of the 10 different books for wind and string instruments. They can also be combined and played by a larger ensemble that has challenging instrumentation.

Contents:
Blue Light Special (Halferty); Canon In Two Parts (Halferty); Crescent Moon Rising (Chinese folk song); Dirty Dish Rag (Halferty); Farandole (Bizet); March (Bach); The Rakes Of Mallow (Irish folk song); and Two Russian Folk Songs.

SKU: KN.19533

UPC: 822795195330.

These 8 duets are destined to become a staple of school music libraries as they can be mixed or matched using any combination of the 10 different books for wind and string instruments. They can also be combined and played by a larger ensemble that has challenging instrumentation.

Contents:
Blue Light Special (Halferty); Canon In Two Parts (Halferty); Crescent Moon Rising (Chinese folk song); Dirty Dish Rag (Halferty); Farandole (Bizet); March (Bach); The Rakes Of Mallow (Irish folk song); and Two Russian Folk Songs.

SKU: BT.MUSM570200658

English.

For Counter-Tenor, Flute, Shakuhachi (or Alto Flute), Cello, 2 Pianos, Harp and Percussion. Published in 1996. Commissioned by Roger Woodward for the composer's 50th Birthday Concert in the Seventh Sydney Spring Festival, 1996. Recorded on ABC Classics (ABC 462 007 - 2).

SKU: KN.19543

UPC: 822795195439.

These 8 duets are destined to become a staple of school music libraries as they can be mixed or matched using any combination of the 10 different books for wind and string instruments. They can also be combined and played by a larger ensemble that has challenging instrumentation.

Contents:
Blue Light Special (Halferty); Canon In Two Parts (Halferty); Crescent Moon Rising (Chinese folk song); Dirty Dish Rag (Halferty); Farandole (Bizet); March (Bach); The Rakes Of Mallow (Irish folk song); and Two Russian Folk Songs.

SKU: PR.114422680

ISBN 9781491136041. UPC: 680160688197.

TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) was composed in 2021 for “The Joy Project,” to commission uplifting works for performance at free outdoor concerts in the San Francisco Bay region. The work’s title comes from the annual Chinese festival when people go outdoors and travel, to welcome the arrival of the new Spring season. This cheerful 5-minute work features energetic melodic lines in unison, contrasting with vivid rhythmic patterns, which the composer indicates as expressing our excitement upon breathing the fresh Spring air.
Tachun (Spring Outing) was commissioned by and dedicated to the Del Sol String Quartet as a part of The Joy Project in 2021. Tachun is also the name of a Chinese traditional festival when people go outdoors and travel, to welcome the arrival of the new spring season each year. Here is a statement from the Del Sol String Quartet about this project:“Del Sol has commissioned a body of short musical works written to give joy. As our gift to our community during these times, we are performing these pieces in numerous free concerts at public settings around the Bay Area — parks, schoolyards, open spaces — where people can soak up some musical “joy” while safely practicing social distancing in the open air.”My string quartet has active melodic lines in unison, contrasting with vivid rhythmic patterns, to express our excitement when we breathe the fresh air.

SKU: PR.114419290

ISBN 9781491135235. UPC: 680160676118. 9 x 12 inches.

Supported by a major commissioning award from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, my Chinese Folk Dance Suite is written for violin solo and orchestra, and premiered by The Women's Philharmonic with violin soloist Terrie Baune, conducted by Apo Hsu, on March 10, 2001, at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Inspired by various Chinese traditional folk dances, I've composed three movements in the suite: 1) Lion Dance. Traditionally, people dance with richly decorated hand made lions, accompanied by percussion ensemble, to celebrate happy occasions and major festivals throughout the country. In the composition, I use Chinese drum and other percussion instruments in the background, to form a dynamic and rhythmic texture responding to the solo part, which imitates the tunes played on the suona (traditional Chinese trumpet). The pitch materials came from traditional Guangdong Music tune and Chaozhou Music tune ; 2) YangKo. Originated in northern China, it's a major folk dance form in mass performance popularized in the country. In YangKo performance, people always play rhythmic patterns on the drums hung around their waists while singing and dancing. In my second movement, I have imagined a warm scene of YangKo dancing in distance. The solo violin plays a sweet and gracious melodic line while all members in the orchestra sing the non-pitch syllables in different layers as the soft background, to imitate the percussion sound which produces the ever going pulse. 3) Muqam. It is a large scale traditional music and dance form from Uygur nationality in Xinjiang province, originated in the 15th century. In my third movement, I keep the meter of seven eight and the melodic style of Muqam music. The fiery dancing gesture cumulates the sustained climax section at the end of the work, after a colorful violin cadenza in both improvisational singing style and polyphonic writing with woven lines. Scored for 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in Bb, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns in F, 2 trumpets in Bb, 3 trombones, percussion 1 (3 congas, low tom-tom, temple block, paddle castanets), percussion 2 (snare drum, 6 small Beijing opera gong, 12 big Beijing opera gong, crotales, tambourine), percussion 3 (suspended cymbal, a pair of 6 Chinese cymbals, bass drum), solo violin, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos and double basses. Duration is about 16 minutes. The work is recorded on Bis [CD-1352] and released in 2003, performed by Cho-Liang Lin and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, cond. by Lan Shui. Reduction for B-flat soprano saxophone and piano by Wong Tak Chiu (2017) and edited by Chen Yi (2018) The second movement YangKo is premiered by Dr. Wong and Korak Lerpibulchai at the Singapore Saxophone Symposium on 8/13/2017. The American premiere of the saxophone and piano reduction version of Chinese Folk Dance Suite is given by Chi Him Chik and Hao Yin at the Society for American Music National Conference in Kansas City, MO on 3/2/2018.

SKU: PR.114419730

ISBN 9781491132333. UPC: 680160681686. 9 x 12 inches.

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: “When one instrument plays a livelymelody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instrumentsimitates the sound of primitive Chinese folk song singing, as well as the Chinese traditional windinstrument sheng, a mouth pipe organ.” Published as a shared score and extracted parts, and writtenas a celebration piece honoring the 25th anniversary of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
Composed to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, my violin and viola duet HAPPY TUNE was written for Kim Kashkashian and Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, and premiered at the festival on June 16, 2018.I fondly remember being invited by the GLCMF (directed by Prof. James Tocco) to be the dual Stone Composers-in-Residence with my husband Zhou Long, along with the Stone Composer Fellow Nicholas Omiccioli in 2011. We had a dozen of our chamber works performed excellently by the outstanding chamber ensembles and musicians during the week, meeting enthusiastic audiences and supporters of new music in various venues at the festival. The experience was truly inspiring, and I created HAPPY TUNE to honor the GLCMF, with hopes to carry on the high spirit in our new music society.In this duet, when one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imitates the sound of primitive Chinese folk song singing, as well as the Chinese traditional wind instrument sheng, a mouth pipe organ.

SKU: PR.115402080

ISBN 9781491102244. UPC: 680160597376. 9 x 12 inches.

Commissioned by and dedicated to the Mid-American Conference Band Directors Association,Wind was premiered by the Bowling Green Wind Symphony. The Chinese character pronouncedfeng can mean wind, or the winds and can also mean view, folk songs, style, and manner. Chen Yi usesa Western wind ensemble to sound the Eastern feeling of the winds in the work, which consistsof two movements: Introduction and Rondo.
Wind for wind ensemble is premiered by the Bowling Green Wind Symphony, conducted by Prof. Bruce Moss, at the 31st Annual New Music Festival on Oct. 23, 2010, at the Bowling Green State University in OH.  “Wind”, or “the winds” means “view, folk songs, style and manner” in Chinese. I used a western wind ensemble to sound the eastern feeling of the winds in my piece.  Wind consists of two movements: Introduction and Rondo.—Chen Yi.

SKU: AP.49096

ISBN 9781470646028. UPC: 038081564401. English.

Conjuring breathtaking images of illuminated lanterns floating through the night sky, Peter Sciaino's Paper Lanterns is a delightful selection that will capture the imagination. Celebrated on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month, the Lantern Festival traditionally marks the end of the Chinese New Year. As the sun goes down, families will often go outside and pay homage to the moon by launching paper sky lanterns (also called Congaing lanterns) which function like tiny hot air balloons. Take your audience to a place of wonder and beauty with this unique selection for young band. (2:15) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.