Turtle and Rat for pipa - Full Score PDF
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Turtle and Rat is a two movement set for solo pipa which were inspired by the two eponymous animals. The Turtle is depicted by characteristicly slow and bumbling music. Each refrain is a little different, developing the music by adding increasing pipa techniques to color the melody. The Rat is more wily, being depicted by pitch bends and other ornaments. The form is a modified palendrome (the second half of the form is really the first part in reverse)--the music is circular and returns to the beginning in the way that a rat returns to the hole after scampering about. These two movements were written for pipa virtuoso Yang Jing, who premiered them at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2012.
5 pages; duration 5'30"
