Tibetan Tunes by Chen Yi Chamber Music - Sheet Music

SKU: PR.114425040

UPC: 680160696635. 9x12 inches.

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, the two-movement Tibetan Tunes was written for the New Pacific Trio and was premiered at the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific in January 2007 in Stockton, California. The first movement is inspired by the Tibetan folk tune "Du Mu," while the second movement "Dui Xie" is a kind of Tibetan folk ensemble music typically played with the plucked instrument Zhamunie, the bamboo flute, and the fiddle Erhu. Chen explains, "The music presents the rich gestures of Du Mu (a name of a god in Tibetan Buddhism) in a serene mood." A unique and notable addition to this prolific composer's catalog of works. For advanced players.
Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, my two-movement trio TIBETAN TUNES is written for the New Pacific Trio (Igor Veligan, violin, Nina Flyer, cello, and Sonia Leong, piano) and premiered at the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific on Jan. 27, 2007 in Stockton, California.The first movement is inspired by a Tibetan folk tune, “Du Mu,” played on a recorder Xiongling. The music presents the rich gestures of Du Mu (a name of a god in Tibetan Buddhism) in a serene mood. Dui Xie is a kind of Tibetan folk ensemble music with a same tune in the introduction and the coda, played with the plucking instrument Zhamunie, the bamboo flute and the fiddle Erhu. It is often performed with singing and tap dancing. The pitch materials of the second movement, “Dui Xie,” are drawn from the folk ensemble music and a lyrical Tibetan folk song, “Amaliehuo.”The work was adapted for flute, English horn, and piano for Aglow Trio (Prof. Karen Large on flute, Prof. Alyssa Morris on English horn, and Prof. Amanda Arrington on piano) in 2025.