Chen Yi

Miller, Leta E.; Edwards, J. Michele

ISBN 10: 0252085442 / ISBN 13: 9780252085444

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chen Yi
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252085442
• ISBN 13: 9780252085444
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Leila Webster Memorial Music Award for the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music

Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and musical borders without eradicating them.

Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards provide an accessible guide to the composer's background and her more than 150 works. Extensive interviews with Chen complement in-depth analyses of selected pieces from Chen's solos for Western or Chinese instruments, chamber works, choral and vocal pieces, and compositions scored for wind ensemble, chamber orchestra, or full orchestra. The authors highlight Chen's compositional strategies, her artistic elaborations, and the voice that links her earliest and most recent music. A concluding discussion addresses questions related to Chen's music and issues such as gender, ethnicity and nationality, transnationalism, border crossing, diaspora, exoticism, and identity.

About the Author

Leta E. Miller is a professor of music emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of biographies about Aaron Jay Kernis and Lou Harrison. J. Michele Edwards, musicologist and conductor, is a professor emerita of music at Macalester College and focuses her research on women musicians, especially from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.