MUSICAL WORKS

TZENG Shing-kwei / 曾興魁

Capriccio from old mountain song

Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: mixed music

Performer(s): LIAO Pei-Yu (Erhu)

Duration: 9:00

Perf. Country: TAIWAN

Context: The Hakka old mountain song is a quite unique folklore, it
contains 3 tones in minor chord only ( la, do, mi in
solfège), but its free glissandi and microtone are subtle
and hard to trace. I resume the theme with auxiliary
tones and create the tone serial as below.
The whole piece can be divided the following 5 parts.
I. Largo, the original mountain song
II. Moderato in a changing meters
III. Allegroin toccata style(virtuoso)
IV. Andante cantabile in rhythm O. Messiaen
Valeurajoutee
V. Da capo back to beginning

Instruments: Erhu

Editor: ming