Plum Blossoms

Composer Shih-Hui Chen

Year Composed: 2003

Instrumentation: Saxophone and Piano

Primary Instrument: Alto Saxophone

Duration: 6'30

Price: $13.95  add to cart  (1 score, 1 part)

Recording - Todd Rewoldt:

Description:

The musical material of this piece is derived from a popular Nankuan melody, "Plum Blossoms." Nankuan, a traditional southern style Chinese/Taiwanese music, dates back to 500AD. This melody serves as a basis for a fantasia, which springs into three sections of music with two cadenza-like solo passages in between them. This elegant Nankuan melody is first subtly introduced in fragments, while a more complete melody isn't presented until the end of the piece.

Plum Blossoms for Saxophone and Piano was commissioned by the World-Wide Concurrent Premieres & Commissions Fund, Inc. and is dedicated to Ken Radnofsky.