Chamber Music Pipa,
Percussion:, Peng Ling,
Japanese High Woodblock,
Two Bongos, Conga, Nao
Bo, Suspended Cymbal,
Three Beijing Opera
Gongs, Triangle
SKU:
PR.114412930
For
Pipa and Percussion.
Composed by Chen Yi.
Saddle. Contemporary. Set
of Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2005. 20+6+11
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41293.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114412930).
UPC:
680160571604. 8.5 x 11
inches. Text: Li Bai. Li
Bai. Three poems by Li
Bai (701 -
762).
It's a
privilege to write a new
work for my friend, the
pipa master Ms. Wu Man to
perform in the 05/06
concert season.
Remembering the first
time we worked together
in 1991, Wu Man premiered
my solo piece The Points
on the age-old Chinese
traditional instrument,
with her adventurous
virtuosity and
sensibility in the piece
with new musical concept
and language, at the
NewWorkOctober concert
series at Columbia
University in New York,
presented by New Music
Consort. I have been very
happy to keep track with
her new experiment and
success in the new music
field since then. Again,
in 2001, I have composed
a trio for her to play
with Yo-Yo Ma and
Young-Nam Kim,
commissioned by the
Chamber Music Society of
Minnesota for the Hun
Qiao project. Wu Man
loved the piece so much
that she commissioned me
another new work to
perform this time. In
Chinese cultural
tradition, in which I am
deeply rooted, music is a
part of an organic art
form, along with poetry,
calligraphy and painting.
I am glad that Wu Man
suggested to create our
new work together with
visual artist Catherine
Owens. We are going to
combine the art forms
together in one. I got my
inspiration from three
ancient poems, which are
drawn in Chinese
calligraphy, with
exaggerated dancing lines
and shapes in layers of
ink. The music would go
with image projection in
Chinese painting
according to the poems.
Written for Wu Man and
commissioned by the
Walton Arts Center,
Fayetteville, AR, the
duet Ancient Dances is
written for pipa and a
set of percussion
instruments (including a
pair of naobo, finger
cymbals, and bongos; a
Japanese high woodblock,
a triangle, 3 Beijing
Opera gongs in small,
medium and large sizes, a
suspended cymbal and a
conga). It consists of
three movements of music
- Cheering, Longing, and
Wondering, in which the
music abstractly
represents various
expressions, in different
textures and tempi,
inspired by the text in
the three Chinese poems
by Li Bai from Tang
Dynasty: 1) Riding on My
Skiff; 2) Night Thoughts;
3) The Cataract of Mount
Lu. The flying lines, as
like mysterious and vivid
ancient dances, bring the
music, the calligraphy,
and the painting all
together in our work.
--Chen Yi.
It's a
privilege to write a new
work for my friend, the
pipa master Ms. Wu Man to
perform in the 05/06
concert season.
Remembering the first
time we worked together
in 1991, Wu Man premiered
my solo piece The Points
on the age-old Chinese
traditional instrument,
with her adventurous
virtuosity and
sensibility in the piece
with new musical concept
and language, at the
NewWorkOctober concert
series at Columbia
University in New York,
presented by New Music
Consort. I have been very
happy to keep track with
her new experiment and
success in the new music
field since then. Again,
in 2001, I have composed
a trio for her to play
with Yo-Yo Ma and
Young-Nam Kim,
commissioned by the
Chamber Music Society of
Minnesota for the Hun
Qiao project. Wu Man
loved the piece so much
that she commissioned me
another new work to
perform this time.In
Chinese cultural
tradition, in which I am
deeply rooted, music is a
part of an organic art
form, along with poetry,
calligraphy and painting.
I am glad that Wu Man
suggested to create our
new work together with
visual artist Catherine
Owens. We are going to
combine the art forms
together in one. I got my
inspiration from three
ancient poems, which are
drawn in Chinese
calligraphy, with
exaggerated dancing lines
and shapes in layers of
ink. The music would go
with image projection in
Chinese painting
according to the
poems.Written for Wu Man
and commissioned by the
Walton Arts Center,
Fayetteville, AR, the
duet Ancient Dances is
written for pipa and a
set of percussion
instruments (including a
pair of naobo, finger
cymbals, and bongos; a
Japanese high woodblock,
a triangle, 3 Beijing
Opera gongs in small,
medium and large sizes, a
suspended cymbal and a
conga). It consists of
three movements of music
- Cheering, Longing, and
Wondering, in which the
music abstractly
represents various
expressions, in different
textures and tempi,
inspired by the text in
the three Chinese poems
by Li Bai from Tang
Dynasty: 1) Riding on My
Skiff; 2) Night Thoughts;
3) The Cataract of Mount
Lu. The flying lines, as
like mysterious and vivid
ancient dances, bring the
music, the calligraphy,
and the painting all
together in our
work.—Chen Yi.
