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A Chinese Festival, Volume 1.(Book Review)
by An-Lun Huang and edited by Alton Chan. Warner Bros. Publications (15800 N. W. 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014), 2002. 56pp., $7.95. Intermediate.
Beautiful sounds reflective of the Chinese people and their culture permeate this collection of intermediate piano solos by An-Lun Huang. The collection contains fourteen pieces ranging from descriptive character pieces (Streams of Yang River and Great Wall) to the three-movement Sonatina written in the classical style. It is a study in the folk songs and of Chinese music, as well as their adaptation to Western musical language.
Huang demands of the performer a wide variety of technical and musical skills. Pieces such as A Song and Mountain demand balance between alternating right- and left-hand melodies. The piece Wind is reminiscent of a programmatic etude, requiring finger fluency and agility to execute quick pentatonic scale passages in both hands. Huang also includes cross-rhythms, syncopated rhythms and an array of standard meters. Memorization of these pieces may be difficult for a student because Huang writes in various Chinese keys, such as Gong and Shang, along with the traditional church modes. The difficulty level is consistent throughout the set with the exception of the second movement ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, A Chinese Festival, Volume 1.(Book Review)