Three Movements, for String Quartet (2009)

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.

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陳以德：《三個樂章》（給弦樂四重奏）(2009)  [9’20”]

展演名稱：校際學生作曲交流音樂會
日期：2011年3月21日，19:30，首演
地點：東吳大學松怡廳，臺北市，臺灣

演出人員：
第一小提琴 / 安庭儀
第二小提琴 / 張聖佳
中提琴 / 陳若帆
大提琴 / 王鈺凌
指揮 / 謝斯韻

樂曲解說

這首作品由三個各具不同特色的樂章所組成，作者使用一核心主題貫穿全曲，並且對樂章之間的對比性加以經營。於樂曲中，先後闡述醞釀累積、衝突對比和蕭條收斂三種情緒，並以聯篇樂章的作法，使音樂能連續地流動。

第一樂章中，含有壓抑成分之性格的樂思以模仿對位的手法逐漸堆疊累積，一波一波地醞釀，使音樂逐漸緊張並走向張力高點，引出下一個樂章。第二樂章中，累積的能量爆發，在不同音色、節奏、力度和表情的音樂素材之間，展開了一連串的衝突與對抗。第三樂章則描述一場劇烈衝突過後所留下的蕭條景象，由較為稀薄的聲響色彩所購成。此外，由核心主題所轉化而成的西敏寺鐘聲旋律，傳遞一個事件的終結和寧靜，曲末以較為虛空、靜止的氛圍結束。