related works

Swing Low : for soprano saxophone and piano / Donald Yu

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: s-sax pf

De Liereman : voor midden stem met piano / Bernard Zweers, tekst: G.W. Lovendaal

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

Chanson : for voice and piano / Henriëtte Bosmans; words by Fernand Mazade

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

Liederen op Zuid-Afrikaanse tekst : voor lage stem en piano, 1966 / Wolfgang Wijdeveld

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