Four Exotic Art Songs for tenor and piano (composed by Donald Yu)

This set of art songs was composed by Hong Kong composer Man-Ching Donald Yu.
Tomorrow expresses the poets hopefulness and longing for tomorrow in order to forget what has happened in the past, and yet he is optimistic what would be happening in the future. The piano introduces the open fifth musical gestures and figures at the beginning and the harmonic languages are modal and tonal in character while blending with pentatonic elements. Pitch permutations occur throughout the rest of the piece while transposing several pitches of a C Dorian scale.

Creation expresses the sorrowful of the poet about the fact that one can never avoid the fate of confronting death and thus in our life time, we should do what we want to achieve for avoiding any regrets in our life. In the piece, the flowing melodic ideas at the piano part blends with the vocal part in an expressive way while the piece is delineated by several harmonic pedal points at the piano part. The harmonic language of the piece is pandiatonic modal in which tonal materials are organized in a way that do not establish tonal centers in a traditional way. Praying is a lyrical poem expressing the poets sorrow for the departure of his beloved. He can only pray for his suffering as well as the safety of his beloved. The scenario takes place in a silent night where he can barely hear any voices and sounds. The music begins with a simple introduction which sets the mood of the whole piece. The vocal melodic idea of the piece is actually derived and developed from the motivic fragment of the opening introduction. Yet the harmonic language of the music is diatonic, however it does not follow the functional traditional practice of the diatonic sense. In the piece, modal elements and pandiatonicism are involved. The Shadow of Dream describes the poet recalled his memories in the past when he wandered nearby a beautiful beach during a charming sunset. The music begins with a concise and rather diatonic introduction. The piano part is pointllistic in character and the harmonic language of the piece becomes even more chromatic at the middle section where octatonic segments are employed. Moreover, permutation of pitches occurs during the course of the piece and the music returns to diatonic at the end.

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Music

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• Chinese Art Songs
• Chinese Poems
• Tenor and piano
• Donald Yu

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Is there anywhere i could find or purchase these lovely songs?