related works
Swing Low : for soprano saxophone and piano / Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
s-sax pf
Quatre Mélodies / Jaap Geraedts; on lyrics by Victor Hugo, Jacques Prevert and André Suarès
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Tir'd with all these : for soprano and piano / Roos van der Burg
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
Abschied : liederencyclus op teksten van Herman[n] Hesse, opus 59, hoge versie, 1960 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
ten pf
composition
Five Dramatic Poems by Ya Hsien - 五首瘂弦詩歌 : for baritone and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Author(s):
Yu, Donald
(Composer)
Description:
In the spring of 2007, writer-in-residence Mr. Ya Hsien commissioned the composer to set five of his poems to music. The resulting collection of art songs comprises five dramatically contrasting poems. The harmonic language of these pieces represents a synthesis of ancient Eastern musical concepts and Western traditions. Specifically, the Eastern influence is rooted in the Tai Chi compositional system, where pitches and scales are systematically formed in correspondence with the ancient Chinese philosophical Tai Chi hexagram, as described by the music theorist Zhao Xiao Sheng.