Whirling Udumbara II (piano)

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Whirling Udumbara II
by Xuntian He

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Whirling Udumbara II( 优昙波罗旋转舞 II ) is a work for piano, [1] composed by He Xuntian in 2012. [2]

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

He Xuntian Chinese musician

He Xuntian is a distinguished composer, creator of a new musical language and also a music composition professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

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Summary

He Xuntian adopted RD Composition and the SS Composition in his work Whirling Udumbara II. [3] [4]

Inspiration

Whirling Udumbara II was inspired from Xuntian He’s poem Fragrant Nirvana Tree (1999).

Fragrant Nirvana Tree

"Fragrant Nirvana Tree" is a poem by He Xuntian in 1999. Its chief subject matter is "there is a love-infatuated one."

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References

  1. ↑ "Whirling Udumbara II". Schott Music. November 2014.
  2. ↑ "He Xuntian". Musical Works. Retrieved 2013-08-08.
  3. ↑ "The Music Is Etched on the Memory of All Generation". People’s Daily. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
  4. ↑ "The Compositional Concept and Theory of He Xuntian". Dissertation of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. January 2011.
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