Eastern and Western Concepts in Two Taiwanese Contemporary Works for Clarinet
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Title
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Eastern and Western Concepts in Two Taiwanese Contemporary Works for Clarinet
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:2698f0a364ac:10866
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identifier
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11223
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Creator
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Chen, Chiu-Yuan,
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Contributor
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Joseph Straus
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Date
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2011
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Asian American studies | Cultural fusion | Eastern and Western Concepts in Music | Ornamentation | Pentatonic scale | Taiwanese contemporary works for clarinet | Trichordal array
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Abstract
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In this dissertation, I examine in detail two contemporary clarinet works, Three Fantasias for solo clarinet (2006) by Yu-Hui Chang and All But Not At All for solo clarinet (2001) by Wei-Chieh Jay Lin, through the lens of performance practice. Each work reflects the composers' culture and training, and each combines Western and Eastern musical concepts. Through the use of Western compositional techniques, Chang and Lin exhibit various Chinese musical idioms, including pentatonicism, folk song quotation, traditional Chinese instrumental ornamentations and styles, and even Chinese philosophical ideas. In Three Fantasias, Chang vividly conveys her stories through a fusion of Taiwanese pentatonic folk song elements and the Western whole-tone and major scales. And in All But Not At All , Lin employs a trichordal set in various musical and conceptual dimensions through modeling the "trichordal array" techniques of his teacher Milton Babbitt. Besides theoretical and musical analyses, I include commentary from my interviews with the composers, interpretive suggestions from my own performing experience, and a CD of live performance recordings of these pieces.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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D.M.A.
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Program
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Music
