A Portfolio of Music Composi t ions
Z H O U Qian
Supervisor: C H A N Wing Wah
A Portfolio Submitted in Partial Fulf i lment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Music
Composi t ion
©The Chinese University of Hong Kong June 2003
The Chinese University of Hong Kong holds the copyright of this thesis. Any person(s) intending to use a part or whole of the materials in the thesis in a proposed publication must seek copyright release from the Dean of the Graduate School.
Abstract of llie portfolio of music compositions
Submitted by ZHOU Qian
for the degree of Master of Music (composition)
at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in June 2003
The portfolio consists of two compositions. The first is written for large orchestra: Wings of
Galaxy. The second is a trio for alto flute, viola and harp: Elegy.
Wings of Galaxy ,
This piece is a combination of delicate orchestral texture and fast changing timbres. It
attempts to portray an imaginative scene. Transient meteor, moving nebula and the elements
hanging in the galaxy seem so intangible. They are so unreachably far from us. They exist in
our dream and may suddenly come into sight. Color is another important element of this piece.
The composer wants to reorganize the different color schemes with the changing sounds
through which, an ideal scenery can be visualized.
The work disintegrates a hexachord into two motives on the base of which a new motive
is developed. These motives, together with their variations, are weaved into the whole work
with versatility and flexibility. Particular focus is laid on the exquisite and
slightly quivering sounds used in the description of gentle formation of galaxy out of the
nebulas. The various concrete and florid textures are just the analogue of the well-contoured
galaxies and their movement. Whereas the glittering and pointillistic sounds underneath are
the millions of diamonds that glimmering from eons ago to the eternity in the deep darkness
of the night sky.
(星河的羽翼〉
此曲運用敏感、細緻的樂隊織體和變幻多端的音色組合,試圖勾畫出一幅令人遐想
的景象。飛逝而過的流星’不斷旋轉的星雲’還有那些懸浮在銀河中的物質 都是
那樣的難以捉摸。它們是那樣的遙不可及’在夢中’卻又有時意外地翩然而至。色彩’
是本曲的重要線索和依據。本曲希望透過對聲音的變化進行細K的“調色"’去努力接
近理想中的设致。
本曲將一個六音渠合分裂成兩個励機’並在它們的越礎上又衍展出一個新的動機。
在整首作品中’這些動機的原形和各種變體得到了豐富而遞活的運用。本曲在寫作上_
注用細賊而微微額動的音翻來描寫星系從星雲中緩慢形成的過程:用各種各樣塊狀的、
流狀的織體,比擬星系的輪廓和它們的運動;而埋藏在其中的、閃燥的點狀音響則仿佛
黑暗深邃的夜空中,那億萬顆懸挂了億萬年、並將亙古閃燥下去的寶石。
Elegy
The idea of the work roots from my retrospection of three ladies. This piece does not use
too many elaborative techniques. Instead it employs simple pitch materials to achieve a
sentiment of commemoration. The octatonic collection is one enriched with meanings. The
multi facets of the linear progression and the melody are made possible by the
segmentation of the octatonic collection. The temperaments and lives of these ladies melt
gradually into my life when the musical notes of the work flow from afar to the present and
finally slip into the corridor of time.
(挽歌…憶否>
本曲的寫作源於對我的生命中出現的三位女性的追憶。簡單的音高素材’沒有太多
浮華的表像’僅僅表達一種思念的情緒。八音階是一個蕴涵豐富的音列。通過對八音階
的分割’能爲線條及旋律的曲折提供多樣的可能。在全曲的音符一個、一個地由將來’
變成現在’直到滑落到過去之中’這三位女性的氣質和生命,也一點一點地溶入到我的
生命裏。
Contents
Composition 1: Wings of Galaxy
Composition 2: Elegy
Zhou Qian
Elegy -in Memory of Three Graceful Ladies
for Alto Flute, Viola and Harp
Score
Notation
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Elegy —in Memory of Three Graceful Ladies
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Wings of Galaxy
Orchestra
Score
Duration: ca 12 minutes
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1 / 統 系 餘 當 l a
.../ passed a little further on and heard a peacock say:
Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay,
He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night
,His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.
William Butler Yeats, The Indian upon God
Instrumentation
3 Flutes (3rd doubling Piccolo) 2 Oboes 1 English Horn 2 Clarinets in B^ 1 Bass Clarinet in B 2 Bassoons 1 Contrabassoon
4 Horns in F 3 Trumpets in C 3 Trombone (Tenor-Bass) 1 Tuba
4 Percussionists: Player 1 Player 2 Player 3
Timpani Vibraphone, Tam-tam Xylophone, Triangle, Cymbal, Cymbals (a Pair of)
Player 4: Glockenspie, Bell-tree, Cymbal
2 Harps 1 Celesta
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Wings of Galaxy Z h o u Q i a n
2002-2003
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