related works
Four Expressive Poems - 四⾸抒情詩 : for soprano and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald; poem by Wong Kin Kwok
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sop pf
Sinfonia VI : (op. 69 + 81), 31-VII-1963 Amsterdam / Lex van Delden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2232 4331 timp perc str
Ottoman miniatures : for orchestra, 2004 / Evrim Demirel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3343 4330 timp 4perc str
Intermezzo and Epilogue : from the opera "The Expedition" / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
(sopr) fl(pic) pic(fl) fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 2fg cfg 2sax 4h 3trp 3trb 2tb timp 5perc g-b hp pf str synth (acc-solo)
composition
Unravelling : for orchestra / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Other authors:
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