Kulintang Suite for violin and piano - Full Score PDF
The Kulintang Suite for violin, piano and assistant is a set of pieces based on and inspired by kulintang gong melodies. All but the first melody are based on real kulintang pieces. Many of the original melodies are distorted, contracted and re-pitched for expressive reasons. In movements II, IV and VI, the assistant mutes and or stops the piano strings, turning the piano into a gong-like percussion instrument. The Kulintang Suite was commissioned and premiered by Yuki Numata, Ming-Hsiu Yen on piano, and the composer as the assistant at Ms.Numata's Master's Degree Recital at the University of Michigan in March of 2006.
33 pages; duration 18'