related works

Expansion : for piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Enkele Volzinnen : Versie voor mezzosopraan en piano / Guus Janssen; text Evert Ritsema

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: sopr-m pf

Sachliche Romanze : for soprano or tenor and piano / Julius Hijman; words by Erich Kästner

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

Vier dwaze liederen : voor zang en piano / Andries de Braal

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