Chamber Music Dizi, Erhu, Piccolo, Zheng SKU: PR.114416840 For Dizi, E...(+)
Chamber Music Dizi, Erhu,
Piccolo, Zheng
SKU:
PR.114416840
For
Dizi, Erhu, Pipa, And
Zheng. Composed by
Chen Yi. Premiered at
Weill Recital Hall in
Carnegie Hall in New York
City. Traditional. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 2014.
36+8+12+12+8 pages.
Duration 11 minutes, 50
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41684.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114416840).
ISBN
9781491101285. UPC:
680160625239. 9 x 12
inches.
On the
occasion of its 30th
anniversary, the ensemble
Music From China
commissioned Chen Yi for
a new work, which became
Three Dances from China
South, scored for Chinese
instruments. Its three
descriptive movements
(Lions Playing Ball,
Bamboo Dance, Lusheng
Dance) are each inspired
by folk dances from the
southeastern provinces of
China.
Commissioned by
the Barlow Endowment for
Music Composition at
Brigham Young University,
the two-movement trio
Tibetan Tunes was written
for the New Pacific Trio
(Igor Veligan, violin,
Nina Flyer, cello, and
Sonia Leong, piano). It
was premiered at the
Conservatory of Music at
University of the Pacific
on Jan. 27, 2007 in
Stockton, California.The
first movement is
inspired by the Tibetan
folk tune “Du
Mu†as played on a
recorder (Xiongling).
This music presents the
rich gestures of Du Mu
(the name of a god in
Tibetan Buddhism) in a
serene mood.“Dui
Xie†is a kind of
Tibetan folk ensemble
music using the same tune
in the introduction and
coda, played with the
plucked instrument
Zhamunie, the bamboo
flute, and the fiddle
Erhu, often performed
with singing and tap
dancing. The pitch
materials of this
movement are drawn from
folk ensemble music and
the lyrical Tibetan folk
song
“Amaliehuo.â€.