Dissertation
Five moments of Sertar: selected piano works by Ziyang Wen, 2013-2019
University of Iowa
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), University of Iowa
Autumn 2019
DOI: 10.17077/etd.005177
Abstract
This recording project consists of four contemporary piano works by Chinese composer Ziyang Wen. These are world premiere recordings.
These four works differ in many ways. The composer states that the Five Moments of Sertar represent a spiritual journey through music. It has a wide variety of religious images and sounds from the composer’s experiences in Tibet. Non-conventional piano sounds are prominent in this work. By contrast, the Eight Bagatelles are traditional and easy to comprehend, and some of them have catchy melodies to follow. The Prelude and Fugue and “Folksong” Piano Sonata employ traits from the great European tradition of classical music writing blended with Chinese musical and cultural elements.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Five moments of Sertar: selected piano works by Ziyang Wen, 2013-2019
- Creators
- Heqing Huang
- Contributors
- Uriel Tsachor (Advisor)Alan Huckleberry (Committee Member)Rene Lecuona (Committee Member)Dan Moore (Committee Member)Rachel Joselson (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Project Type
- Recording Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Music
- Date degree season
- Autumn 2019
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.005177
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vi, 26 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2019 Heqing Huang
- Language
- Chinese; English
- Description illustrations
- music
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (page 26).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This recording project consists of four contemporary piano works by Chinese composer Ziyang Wen. These are world premiere recordings.
These four works differ in many ways. The composer states that the Five Moments of Sertar represent a spiritual journey through music. It has a wide variety of religious images and sounds from the composer’s experiences in Tibet. Non-conventional piano sounds are prominent in this work. By contrast, the Eight Bagatelles are traditional and easy to comprehend, and some of them have catchy melodies to follow. The Prelude and Fugue and “Folksong” Piano Sonata employ traits from the great European tradition of classical music writing blended with Chinese musical and cultural elements.
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; DMA Recording Thesis
- Record Identifier
- 9983779798702771
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