A Comparative Study of Polyphonic Techniques in Chang-Lei Zhu's Ballade for Solo Piano
Description:
In Chinese contemporary piano music, large-scale piano compositions featuring innovative polyphonic musical languages are rarely found. Chang-Lei Zhu's Ballade for Solo Piano represents his development of contrapuntal techniques passed on from J. S. Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich in their polyphonic works for solo keyboard or piano. This study focuses on an analysis of Zhu's Ballade as an idiosyncratic composition that makes a significant contribution to the Chinese contemporary piano music reper…
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Date:
August 2019
Creator:
Rong, Xing
Partner:
UNT Libraries