Abstract
This article examined into three Chinese composers’ compositional method based on the ancient Chinese philosophy I Ching. Transcoding the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching in the piano solo works of Chou Wen Chung, Zhao Xiao Sheng and Chung Yiu Kwong display new representative of Chinese New Music. The analysis shows Chou and Chung’s creations that emphasize the use of the 64 hexagrams within a Westernized context, while Zhao brought out a new and individual compositional method based on the Chinese ancient philosophy that shows a complete departure from the West.
Highlights
Resumo: Compositores como Chou Wen Chung, John Cage, Zhao Xiaosheng, Chen Yi, Isang Yun, Chung Yiu Kwong e Fang Xiaomin estão entre os muitos que se inspiraram nas ideias do I Ching, ou Livro das Mutações, que incorpora filosofia, matemática, astronomia e divindade
The compositional systems created by Chou, Zhao and Chung possess relationships of the same strain, they have different standpoints and techniques to display their thoughts about the I Ching
In Chou’s VM, the idealism of the I Ching in music creates the possibility of utilizing the ideas of ancient philosophy to create a novel musical formation
Summary
Resumo: Compositores como Chou Wen Chung, John Cage, Zhao Xiaosheng, Chen Yi, Isang Yun, Chung Yiu Kwong e Fang Xiaomin estão entre os muitos que se inspiraram nas ideias do I Ching, ou Livro das Mutações, que incorpora filosofia, matemática, astronomia e divindade. Três compositores treinados no Ocidente, Chou Wen Chung, Zhao Xiaosheng e Chung Yiu Kwong, e que são as figuras que se destacam na nova música chinesa, no exterior, na China continental, em Hong Kong e em Taiwan, respectivamente, transformaram o I Ching em três novos sistemas de composição, cada um à sua maneira. The I Ching, called Zhou Yi (周易), is all-encompassing: as Lvshi Chunqiu (吕 氏春秋, Lv’s Spring and Autumn Annals) notes, the supreme macrocosm has no boundary, whereas the extreme microcosm has no core (其大无边,其小无内) It is rooted in the eight trigrams created by Fu Xi1 (2953-2838 BC) for the purpose of meteorology. Chou, Zhao and Chung are the representative figures of Chinese new music, whose theories to some extent represent the manners of overseas Chinese domain, China mainland and Hong Kong-Taiwan respectively
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