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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"western instruments"”.
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Exploring the ‘New Sound’ in Ensembles for Zheng and Western Instruments
… as they relate to the combination of zheng and Western instruments. In this thesis, I will provide an overview of the zheng and its history, examine representative chamber and concerto compositions by other composers, as well as create and analyse a number of my own works.
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Three Voices for voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments
… voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments, Three Voices is a polyglotic work that includes German, Chinese, and Spanish texts. The texts are chosen from Brecht Bertolt's Das Schiff, Po Chu I's Lang T'ao Sha, and Frederico Garcia Lorcá's Mar. Significant features of the piece are …
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Five Seasons: A composition for flutist and percussionist
… movement. The percussionist also plays different instruments in each movement: the vibraphone for Mid-Summer; the xylophone for Fall; the woodblock, temple block, and cowbells for Spring; the glockenspiel for Summer; and the marimba for Winter. The five movements of this work - Mid-Summer, Fall, …
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Chinese instruments in a western contemporary idiom selected works of Chen Yi
… and Ancient Beauty, which all contain Chinese instruments. Technical issues of combining Chinese and Western instruments are discussed, as well as Chinese philosophy and the arts that inspire the pieces. In addition, examples are made to show the influences of Chinese traditional music in …
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Composing electroacoustic music relating to traditional Japanese music
… composers have been exploring ways to merge Western-style art music and their original, traditional Japanese music. Although in the past compositions which applied expressions of traditional Japanese music to Western-style music were partly successful, ensembles of Western and Japanese …
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The use of traditional Japanese music as an inspiration for modern saxophone compositions: An interpretive guide to Joji Yuasa's Not I but the wind' and Masakazu Natsuda's West, or Evening Song in Autumn
The use of non-Western music, particularly the traditional music of Japan, as the impetus for Western compositions has become increasingly common in music for saxophone since 1970. Many of the composers who have undertaken this fusion of styles are of Japanese nationality, but studied composition …