Chen Yi (Paperback)

Winner of the Leila Webster Memorial Music Award for the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them. Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Women Composers
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Leta E. Miller • J. Michele Edwards
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08544-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-252-08544-2
Barcode:	9780252085444

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