Points
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SKU: PR.114409460
For solo Pipa. Composed by Chen Yi. World Premiere: Ms. Wu Man at the Music Room. Contemporary. Full score. With Standard notation. Composed Jul-91. 12 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40946. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114409460).UPC: 680160014194. 8.5 x 11 inches.
The eight standard strokes in Chinese calligraphy start with the points in different touches. There are sensitive articulations and gestures in the drawing, which enlightened the composer with the musical inspiration for her pipa solo piece, "The Points".
Commissioned by the New York New Music Consort for the NEWworksOCTOBER series at Columbia University, The Points received its world premiere on October 17, 1991, in New York. I also wish to express my gratitude to the Corporation of Yaddo. It was during a four week residence at Yaddo in July of 1991 that The Points was completed, and presented by Ms. Wu Man at the Music Room on July 23, 1991. The eight standard strokes in Chinese calligraphy start with the points in different touches. There are sensitive articulations and gestures in the drawing, which enlightened me with the musical imagination for this piece. The structure of The Points comes from the eight brush stroke movements of the Chinese character “yong” (eternal) in Zhengkai calligraphy; the melodic material comes from Shaanxi opera. In this work I had integrated the spirit of the traditional lyric and martial techniques; but its modern structure, melody, and basic tunings were worlds apart from the traditional. Though the title refers to the contact points between brush and paper that commence and characterize the eight strokes, “points” also aptly captures the nature of plucked string music—the melody is created out the musical points plucked forth by the fingers. The tuning of the pipa in this piece (#A #D E A) is different from the traditional (A D E A), in order to create my new chords more easily and effectively by playing open strings.—Chen Yi.