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Abstract
“Music from the Mountain ”– for Di and Chinese Orchestra was Commissioned by the National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, and composed by Taiwan's young generation composer Yun Lu (1982-) in 2005. The whole work is in four movements, and the instruments for soloist include Dadi in G, Qudi in D, Bangdi in G and Hsiaodi in D. The composer used musical elements from the Taiwanese aborigines culture, to depict these peoples way of living, as well as their strong perseverance and Optimistic attitude of life. In other words, the composer transformed the distinctive lifestyle of the aborigines vividly and Appropriately into music. For soloist, breathing, controling of overtones, wide range hopping and adapting various calibers when rapidly changing Dizi of different size, are the challenging topics. In addition, this work has only the version for large orchestra, because the composer thought that some sonorities and requirements for timbres could not be fulfilled on piano, therefore, no simplified version for piano accompaniment is available. That is to say, it would also be an important subject in this thesis.
In this thesis, the author takes the work “Music for the Mountain” of Yun Lu as an example, to discuss the composer’s course of music learning, compositional ideas, characteristics of works and the materials used in this particular piece. And then, analyzes the motives, musical form and structure of the work, Observes different approaches of interpretation and methods of performing through video or audio recordings of several performers, so to obtain more references and come up with more ideas for interpreting and performing contemporary Di pieces.
This study could provide suggestions and references for other players who want to interpret and analyze the work “Music for the Mountain”, and they may then develop some more distinctive and innovative ways of interpreting or performing the work, so that the performance of the piece would not only be Full of tension and richness, but also lively and interesting!
Keywords: National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, Yun Lu, Di, Taiwanese
aborigines culture.
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