Yangko For Solo violin and 2 Percussion by Chen Yi Chamber Music - Sheet Music
By Chen Yi
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Yangko
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Chamber Music Violin, Percussion I:, 6" Chinese Cymbals, Temple Block, Bass Drum, Percussion II:, Paddle Castanets, 6" Beijing Opera Gong
SKU: PR.114412720
For Solo violin and 2 Percussion. Composed by Chen Yi. Sws. Score and parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2000. 35 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114412720).UPC: 680160535835. 8.5 x 11 inches.
YankgKo, an important form of mass folk-dance that originated in northern China, has recently become popular throughout the entire country. In Yang Ko, the performers not only dance, but they play rhythmic patterns on drums that hang around their waists throughout the performance. In my piece, "YangKo", the percussionists invoke a warm scene of YanfKo dancing in the distance. Over that background, the solo violin plays a sweet and gracious melodic line imitating the song of a beautiful girl.
YangKo, originating in northern China, is a major folk dance form in mass performance popularized in the country. In a YangKo performance, people always play rhythmic patterns on the drums hung around their waists while singing and dancing. In my piece YangKo, I have imagined a warm scene of YangKo dancing in the distance. The solo violin plays a sweet and gracious melodic line imitation a beautiful girl’s singing, supported by the sound produced by the two percussionists, who play instruments and recite percussive words, with the evergoing pulse, imitating the warm scene of the dance parade in the background. Under request of Network for new Music ensemble, the piece is adapted from the second movement of my Chinese Folk Dance Suite for violin and orchestra, premiered by NNM at its dance program in Philadelphia on March 8 and 9, 2005.—Chen Yi.
