Song in Winter For Flute, Zheng, Piano, and Percussion by Chen Yi Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Name: Song in Winter
Brand: Theodore Presser Company
SKU: 1790448
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Instrument:

Flute Percussion Piano

Genres:

Contemporary

Composers:

Chen Yi

Artist:

Chen Yi

Series:

Women Composers and Arrangers Composers and Arrangers of Color Music of Asian Composers and Artists

Format:

Set of Parts Score and Parts

Item types:

Physical

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

Chamber Music Flute, Percussion, Piano, Zheng

SKU: PR.114409470

For Flute, Zheng, Piano, and Percussion. Composed by Chen Yi. Sws. Christmas and Holiday. Contemporary. Score and parts. With Standard notation. Composed 1993. 19 pages. Duration 8 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40947. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114409470).

UPC: 680160014200. 8.333 x 10.677 inches.

The idea of "Song in Winter" came from the imagination of the pine and the bamboo. They are so persistent and dauntless. Standing in the frigid winter, they are evergreens. In Chinese paintings, they are featured characters; in Chinese literature, they are praised as symbols against evil influences and unhealty trends. Chen Yi admires their beautiful appearances and their strong spirit and expresses their feelings through their music, which combines Chinese and Western musical materials and medium. The silence between the gestures is like the space in brush painting and calligraphy.
Song in Winter is a trio written for harpsichord, dizi (bamboo flute) and zheng (Chinese zither).xa0 My idea for this piece came from the pine and the bamboo.xa0 Such persistent and dauntless trees!xa0 Standing in the frigid winter, they are evergreens.xa0 In Chinese paintings, they are the featured characters, while in Chinese literature, they are praised as symbols against evil influences and unhealthy trends.xa0 I admire their beautiful appearances and their strong spirit.xa0 I express my feelings through my music, which combines Chinese and Western musical materials and media.xa0 Using the harpsichord, an old Western instrument, and the zheng and dizi, two old Chinese instruments, I mix keyboard, plucking and blowing instruments into a whole.xa0 The silence between the gestures is like the space in Chinese brush painting and calligraphy.xa0 Although I have been living in a western society for seven years, I have found my thinking closely linked with Chinese arts.xa0 I merged them into my musical language in the trio. Song in Winter was commissioned and inspired by Prof. Joyce Lindorff, the winner of the Pro Musicis Foundation's international competition, for her March 23, 1994 concert at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, sponsored by the Foundation.xa0 It is dedicated to Ms. Lindorff and Ms. Susan Cheng, the founder and executive director of Music From China, who has been enthusiastically supporting Chinese new music in New York for many years.xa0 The work has been recorded on the album “Sparkle: Chamber Music of Chen Yi” on CRI, released in New York in 1999. The trio has also been adapted for quartet: flute, zheng (Chinese zither), piano and percussion, for ALEA III, for the premiere concert in Feb. 4, 1994, in Boston.—Chen Yi(born in China, 1953).