Landscapes

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Landscapes, Chou Wen-Chung
Landscapes, Chou Wen-Chung
Score title
Landscapes
Composer
Chou Wen-Chung
More about the composer
Chou Wen-chung
Date
1949
Instrumentation
Orchestra
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Program note
Landscapes employs three traditional Chinese melodies to create three landscapes: “Under the Cliff in the Bay,” “The Sorrow of Parting,” and “One Streak of Dying Light.” The poems, postdating these melodies associated with them by centuries, are in the composer’s translation.