related works

Four Dramatic Chinese Poems : for tenor and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald; poems by Wong Kin Kwok

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: ten pf

Het lied van de regen : voor lage stem en piano / [tekst] (Tony de Ridder), Herman Mulder

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: low pf

2 Liederen : voor midden stem met piano / Bernard Zweers, tekst: Hélène Swarth

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: voice pf

Lied : voor zang en piano (hoge stem) / Nico Richter

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: high pf

composition

Five Dramatic Poems by Ya Hsien - 五首瘂弦詩歌 : for baritone and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Other authors:
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.