dc.contributor.advisor | Chen, Yi, 1953- | |
dc.contributor.author | Shao, Zheng | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2017 Spring | |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page, viewed on May 30, 2017 | |
dc.description | Dissertation advisor: Chen Yi | |
dc.description | Vita | |
dc.description | Thesis (D.M.A.)--Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums is an orchestral piece with three main
sections played in a single continuous movement. Its inspiration comes from a set of ancient
Chinese seal scripts on ten drum-shaped stones now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing,
China. These drum-shaped stones with seal scripts were originally made before the Qin Dynasty
(221 BC – 206 BC), and were first discovered in 627CE. The poems on the seal scripts describe
an ancient Qin king’s parade. However, for thousands of years and still today, experts and scholars
do not agree on the exact date of the incidents described in these poems on stone drums. The legend
and mystery that surrounds these drums, and the beauty of the ancient Chinese seal script
characters are deeply attractive. These ten drum-shaped stones have been traveling through time
and space to the present, and they are now displayed quietly in the Palace Museum in Beijing,
China, offering a rich and dramatic contrast with the grand scene of the king of Qin king’s parade
over two thousand years ago. In my composition, I express the massive contrasts in different
sections through different timbres, dynamics, registers, and orchestration styles, and thereby praise
the glorious and magnificent tradition of Chinese history and culture. Concerning pitch material, I
employ a series of tetrachords with their permutations, and develop them using a technique based
on set theory combined with a Chinese music flavor. Specifically, I use major and minor seconds
to create two groups of tetrachords (“0123” and “0246”) along with their transpositions and permutations in the foreground and two Chinese pentatonic scales (CDFGA and C#D#F#G#A#) with
their transpositions and permutations in the background. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Instrumentation -- Program notes -- Score -- Vita | |
dc.format.extent | ix, 87 pages | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/60509 | |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Kansas City | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Symphonic poems | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Orchestral music | |
dc.subject.other | Dissertation -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Music | |
dc.title | Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Music Composition (UMKC) | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Kansas City | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | D.M.A. | |