Three Bagatelles From China West
Duet for Flute and Piano
by Chen Yi
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music flute, piano

SKU: PR.114413970

Duet for Flute and Piano. Composed by Chen Yi. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2006. 12+4 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41397. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114413970).

ISBN 9781598062601. UPC: 680160588954. 9 x 12 inches.

Theodore Presser Company presents popular composer Chen Yi’s contribution to Marya Martin’s Eight Visions anthology, a trio of Chinese folk songs entitled Three Bagatelles from China West, written for flute and piano. Chen was inspired by authentic folk music from China West and this work consists of exploratory compositions drawn from folk songs such as “Shange Diao,” written for a wind instrument called the Lerong, “Nai Guo Hou,” written for a different wind instrument called the Bawu, and “Dou Duo,” a folk song meant to evoke the sounds of Lusheng ensemble playing of the Miao People. For advanced players. Duration: 10’_______________________________________Born in Guangzhou, China, CHEN YI started studying violin and piano when she was only three, and received BA and MA music degrees from the Beijing Central Conservatory and a DMA degree from Columbia University in New York. Her composition teachers have included Chou Wen-Chung, Mario Davidovsky, Wu Zu-Qiang, and Alexander Goehr. Currently the Lorena Searcey Cravens Millsap Missouri Distinguished Professor in Music Composition at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Dr. Chen has also served on the composition faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore (1996-98), and has been the Composer-in-Residence of the Women’s Philharmonic, Chanticleer, and the Aptos Creative Arts Center in San Francisco, supported by Meet the Composer’s New Residencies program.Chen Yi has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Women’s Philharmonic,Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Evelyn Glennie, Rascher Saxophone Quartet, Ying Quartet, New Music Consort,San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Network for New Music, Music From China, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. Major commissions have been supported by the Koussevitzky, Fromm, Ford, Rockefeller, and RocheFoundations, Chamber Music America, Creative Work Fund, San Francisco Art Commission, Mary Cary Flagler Trust, NEA, NYSCA, Carnegie Hall, New Heritage Music Foundation, American Guild ofOrganists, and Meet The Composer.Dr. Chen’s music has also been performed by major orchestras and soloists throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Fellowships have been received from the Guggenheim Foundation, NationalEndowment for the Arts, and American Academy of Arts and Letters. Honors include the prestigious Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Eddie Medora King Composition Prize, the Lili Boulanger Award, the Sorel Medal Award, the Cal Arts Alpert Award, the Stoeger Award from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the top prize from the China National Composition Competition. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.Her music has been recorded on the Albany, Bis, New Albion, CRI, Teldec, Angel, Nimbus, Cala, Avant, Atma, Hugo, Koch International Classics, Delos, Centaur, Eroica, and China Record Corporation labels. For further information on the music of Chen Yi, please visit www.presser.com/composers/chen.html.
The EIGHT VISIONS anthologyIn 2005, flutist Marya Martin approached Meet The Composer with a visionary proposal to commission eight composers to write medium-length concert works culminating in a full-length gala premiere concert, a CD, and a published anthology of new music for flute and piano, choosing composers to provide a diverse and engaging group of works that ensures a meaningful encounter with the music of our time.Ms. Martin and Meet The Composer together crafted an approach that aligned perfectly with MTC’s initiative to encourage individual patrons to become actively involved in commissioning new music, and MTC played a key role in coordinating the project as it went forward. The eight resulting compositions by Kenji Bunch, Chen Yi, Ned Rorem, Paul Moravec, Tania León, Eve Beglarian, Melissa Hui, and David Sanford represent not only important new additions to the repertoire, but also serve as a point of departure for teaching tools on instrumental technique and compositional thinking. Collectively, they offer students a unique opportunity to build a progressively deepening relationship with the music of eight living composers.On March 29, 2007, Marya Martin premiered all eight works at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and subsequently recorded them for the Naxos label. Theodore Presser Company released the complete anthology in May 2009, and followed with this “single” in February 2010. The complete EIGHT VISIONS anthology remains available separately from Theodore Presser Company (414-41193), and Marya Martin’s CD of the eight works, performed with pianist Colette Valentine is available on Naxos 8.559629.About Chen Yi’s work, Marya Martin writes, “I tried to take myself out of the zone of normal Western flute playing in Chen Yi’s THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST, experimenting with different tone colors and using different vibrato speeds to achieve a more authentic sound. At the premiere, I played this on my wooden flute, a modern instrument with a more mellow sound and less well-defined articulation than my regular gold flute.”A note from the composerThe authentic folk music from China West has amazed and inspired me to write this piece, which has folk music elements drawn from these sources: the solo piece SHANGE DIAO played on the wind instrument called Lerong, the musical pattern played on the small mouth wind instrument Kouxian of the Jingpo People, the solo piece NAI GUO HOU played on the wind instrument Bawu, the pitch material sung in the folk song ASHIMA of the Yi People, the folk song DOU DUO, and the sound effect of the Lusheng ensemble playing of the Miao People.An alternate version of THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST for 2 flutes is published separately (414-41193B).