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

Les voyages de Gulliver : quatre fragments pour mezzo-soprano et piano, 1967 / Rob du Bois

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

2 Suleikaliederen : gecomp. 1959 / (tekst: Mirza Schaffy), Henk Bijvanck

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

Stilte (Stille) : for voice and piano / Samuel Schuijer; words by Dr. W. Zuidema

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