Memory, for solo violin
Titre
Memory, for solo violin
Description
Chinese American composer Yi Chen's compositional language blends Western performance ideals with the folk music of China.
As stated on sheetmusicplus.com, "Chen Yi wrote this plaintive memorial work in tribute to the passing of her teacher, Professor Lin Yaoji. In the program notes, the composer speaks to her mentor: I wish you could hear the tune in my Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly. ... For this plaintive memorial work for solo Violin, the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer, the composer provides this program note: Dear Professor Lin: I wish you could hear the tune in my Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly."
As stated on sheetmusicplus.com, "Chen Yi wrote this plaintive memorial work in tribute to the passing of her teacher, Professor Lin Yaoji. In the program notes, the composer speaks to her mentor: I wish you could hear the tune in my Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly. ... For this plaintive memorial work for solo Violin, the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer, the composer provides this program note: Dear Professor Lin: I wish you could hear the tune in my Memory, which sounds like my painful cry out of your name in our Cantonese dialect. I expressed my deep sorrow in the music, to remember your fatherly mentorship. Your meaningful smile will always be with us encouragingly."
Duration: 3.5 minutes
Créateur
Yi, Chen (b. 1953)
Source
Chen Yi (Wikipedia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yi_(composer)
Chen Yi, "Memory, for solo violin" (score), https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/memory-sheet-music/19532593?d=sem_ggl_Product_DSAs&gclid=CjwKCAjw2bmLBhBREiwAZ6ugo-dJa9vpbzI2e0OKB1iPMUDOMk2_FFdzoX-PtvVVCdkAdUjYM2P2dhoCsL4QAvD_BwE
Patrick Yim, "Chen Yi: 'Memory' for solo violin; Patrick Yim, violin" (YouTube), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkYlEMceed8&ab_channel=PatrickYim
Date
2010
Format
0-10 minutes
Couverture
2000-
Instrumentation
violin / violon
Ensemble Type
solo
Citer ce document
Yi, Chen (b. 1953), “Memory, for solo violin,” Music EnLivened, consulté le 21 novembre 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/220.
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