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

Borges - liederen : voor bariton en piano, 1997 / Jan Bus

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

Bloemenliedje : for voice and piano / Rosy Wertheim; words by Rosy Wertheim

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

Théâtre des pûces : voor zangstem en piano / Peter Schat; text Halbo C. Kool

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