related works
Contemplation : for piano / Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonata per orchestra da camera : (1960/61) / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1111 2100 perc str(6.6.4.3.2.)
Turandot-suite : voor orkest / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2100 2100 perc xyl cel pf str
Preludium en fuga : orchestra, (1946/orch. '48) / Jaap Geraedts
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2322 4220 timp str
composition
Unravelling : for orchestra / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Author(s):
Yu, Donald
(Composer)
Description:
Recently I have been obsessed with consciousness which is one of the profoundest mysteries in modern science among human beings. Some scientists believe that consciousness is not only limited to our physical brain activities, but it is also a part of the spiritual force and nature that transcends space and time existing in cosmos, and that its existence is separated from our physical body. In some cases, higher form of consciousness has been experienced in another dimension of reality when travelling out of our physical body. The music reflects my personal feeling towards the mystical realms of consciousness. Throughout the piece, economic use of pitches, the gradual participation of different pitches in different layers by canonic procedure along with various suspended dramatic changes and transformations of musical elements, are the prominent feature describing the transcendence of consciousness in suspended time and space.
Donald Yu