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The composer writes: As movements are short and concise, they possess one single mood and often one single musical idea... like snapshots of moments in memory. In fact, some are indeed musical translations of scenes from my experience - for example, Counterpoint was inspired by seeing a village funeral procession in rural China. The family members of the deceased progressed slowly, interrupted by frequent kneeling down and crying (both can be a formal part of the ritual and an expression from the heart), while an odd mix of Western and Chinese instruments (e.g. a trombone and a suona, a Chinese double-reed instrument) led the way playing very upbeat happy music - unsurprising as funerals in China are called "the white happiness" (weddings are the red counterpart). In my music, the two moods are in counterpoint creating a synthetic mood of happy and sad. Cuo Diao, split melody or wrong key is an isorhythmic love song where notes in the tune are playfully replaced by 'wrong notes' which are not from the tune or its mode. These erroneous notes, however, later little-by-little form a transposition of the original tune in higher register.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the NZTrio for the NZ Music Educator's Conference, and funded by Creative New Zealand
Contents note
I. Xiao (Boisterous)
II. Cuo Diao (Split Melody)
III. Dui Wei (Counterpoint)
IV. Shuo (Shining)
Performance history
05 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Rangiora
07 Jul 2009: NZTrio at Modulations: Christchurch
09 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Oamaru
10 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Cromwell
18 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Kaitaia
24 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Whakatane
25 Jul 2009: NZTrio: Arts on Tour : Howick
29 May 2011: NZTrio Kiwi Sampler 2
24 Mar 2013: CONVERGENCE - NZTrio - Auckland Arts Festival 2013
21 Sep 2013: Journey to the East - Between Strings | NZTrio
27 Sep 2013: NZTrio | Warsaw Autumn Festival Fringe Event
28 Sep 2013: NZTrio | Krakow
17 May 2014: NZTrio | new New Zealand music - Beijing Modern Festival
27 May 2014: NZTrio | O Cambodia - Guangxi Festival of South East Asian Music
30 Aug 2014: NZTrio | Aarhus Festival
14 Aug 2015: NZTrio at the Darwin Festival | Between Two Oceans
23 Aug 2015: NZTrio | East From Here