Happy Rain on A Spring Night - Parts
For Flute, Clarinet, violin, Cello, and Piano
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SKU: PR.11441271M
For Flute, Clarinet, violin, Cello, and Piano. Composed by Chen Yi. Premiered at Merkin Hall in New York. Contemporary. Set of parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2004. 48 pages. Theodore Presser Company #114-41271M. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11441271M).UPC: 680160586233. 8.5 x 11 inches. Happy Rain on a Spring Night by Du Fu (712-770 in Tang Dynasty).
It's like the welcome rain on a quiet spring night that nurtures the budding seeds, our new society is pushing us forward to the new future. The music reflects the scenes and the expression according to the meaning of the poem when it's being unfolded line by line. Although the tempo is set 60 - 70 quarter notes per minute throughout (played vividly, never slow down), the tension is being built up from the quiet background in the beginning, to the sustained climax towards the end. The musical image in Rehersal A and B (measures 1 - 41) represents the first four lines of the poem. The woodwind instruments response to the rustling of fast moving notes on muted string triplets, decorated by occasional strokes produced by metallic string sound and high piano gestures. The music in Rehersal C and D (measures 42 -87) represents the next two lines of the poem. It's so dark, a little light in the boat is shimmering on the lake... The breathy key slaps on the flute creates a mysterious atmosphere, in a dialogue with other instruments. The cello glissandi recite the poem in the tone of Mandarin, echoed by the string harmonics. The music in Rehersal E, F and G (m 88 - 161) is a toccata, stating with the piano, which builds up a big shape, to reach the climax in m. 116, and keeps the vivid scene towards the coda (Rehersal H, m. 162 - the end), which stands on the energetic peak at the end of the piece.