Yi-De Chen: Three Movements, for String Quartet (2009) [9’20”]
Event: Joint Composition Students Concert
Date: 19:30, Mar 21, 2011, premiere
Location: Concert Hall, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan
Performers:
Ting-Yi An, violin I
Sheng-Chia Chang, violin II
Jo-Fan Chen, viola
Yu-Ling Wang, violoncello
Szu-Yun Hsieh, conductor
Host: Soochow University, National Taiwan Normal University and TNUA
Program Note
The work consists of three movements with different characteristics. The author uses a core theme throughout the whole song and operates on the contrast between the movements. In the music, the three emotions of brewing accumulation, conflict comparison, and depression convergence are elaborated, and the music can be continuously flowed by the joint music.
In the first movement, the thoughts containing the characteristics of the repressive elements gradually stack up and accumulate in the way of imitating the alignment, and the music is gradually swayed, making the music gradually tense and moving toward the high point of tension, leading to the next movement. In the second movement, the accumulated energy bursts, and a series of conflicts and confrontations between different timbres, rhythms, strengths, and expressions of music material. The third movement describes the scene of a depression left behind after a violent conflict, purchased from a relatively thin sound. In addition, the Westminster bell melody transformed from the core theme conveys the end and tranquility of an event, ending with a relatively empty, static atmosphere.