Collection of Piano Music from the Far East for Pedagogy and Performance
WSMTA Conference
June 24th, 2008
by Regina Yeh, DMA
Guest Artists: Dr. Nancy Jang, Mari Corpuz, Jean Huang
Korea
Volume
Title
Do Ra Ji for
solo piano
Title of
Composition
Do Ra Ji for
solo piano
Composer
Level
Pedagogical
Interest
Contrapunta
l playing,
rhythmic
complexities
, Cluster
Chords
Lee Hae-Sung
Intermediate
Wepasana
for Piano
Wepasana for
Piano
Lee Hae-Sung
Early Advanced,
Intermediate to
Early advanced
adult
Unmetered,
musically
challenging,
technically
not virtuosic
Sang Kuen
Lee Piano
Works
Piano
Sonatina No.
2,Prelude No.
7, Variation
“Blue Bird”,
Improvisation
s, Fantasy
Suite,
Projection
No. 1,
Projection
No.2
Sang Kuen Lee
Intermediate to
Early Advanced
Modern
composition
al
techniques,
classical
forms, folk
tune
variations,
Harmonic
Interest
Additional
Information
Literally, a
root
vegetable in
Korean
cooking.
Do Ra Ji is a
famous
Korean Folk
Tune
Buddist Introspectio
n and
Insight;
meditative
piece
Contemporar
y Korean
Piano
Works, I, II
and III
Various
including:
6 Pieces for
Piano “Nori”,
Korean
Rhapsody,
Sonata for
Piano
Suite
“Korean
Dance”
Pieces for
Piano by
Women
Composers
Suite “Korean Hoe Kap Chung
Dance’
Intermediate to
Early Advanced
Variations for Various
Piano, Sonata,
Allegro,
Intermezzo,
Image, 5
Small pieces,
Contrast,
Fantastic
Dance, Suite
for Piano,
Ohio
Impromptus
Shao Yang
Isang Yun
Yin
Easy to
Advanced
Shao Yang
Yin (Boosey
and Hawkes)
Various
Intermediate to
Early Advanced;
Volume I is
mostly Avant
Garde and
Difficult
Difficult
Funf Stucke 5 pieces
(Boosey and
Hawkes)
Interludium
Interludium A
A (Boosey
and Hawkes)
Go-Hyang
Go-Hyang
(Ancestral
Home)
Isang Yun
Difficult
Isang Yun
Difficult
David Burge
(Eastman;Auth
or, Pianist)
Advanced
Pieces of
Arirang for
Piano
Bang-Ja Hurh
Advanced
Pieces of
Arirang for
Piano
Various:
Modern
Techniques
including 12
tone, folk
tunes,
Lisztian
transcription
, Harmonic
interest,
rhythmic
play, etc.
“Nori”
means
“Play”
Unmetered,
special
notations,
Avant Garde
“Shao”=Littl
e
“Yang Yin”
=as in Yin
and Yang in
Taoist
teachings
Western
Composer
on Korean
theme
Premiered at
USC
16 Arirang
Variations
for Piano
Solo
For Two
Pianos:
Barcarolla,
Duo for Two
Pianos,
Spring in
Luo Yang
16 Arirang
Variations for
Piano Solo
Bahk JunSang
Advanced
For Two
Pianos:
Barcarolla,
Duo for Two
Pianos,
Spring in Luo
Yang
Guk Jin Kim
Early Advanced
to Advanced
Piano Sanjo
No.2
Piano Sanjo
No. 2
Byung-Eun
Yoo
Early Advanced Advanced
Un Hoe Park
Piano Works
Arirang
Variations,
Korean
Rhapsody,
Korean Folk
Suite (Duet)
Piano
Variations
Un Hoe Park
Advanced
Kuk Jin Kim
Advanced/Diffic
ult
Piano
Variations
Rhythmic
and Metric
Complexitie
s
Spring in
Luo Yang
Northwest
Premiere in
April 2007
at
University
of
Washington
Sanjo is a
style of
traditional
Korean
music,
involving an
instrumental
solo
accompanie
d by
drumming
on the
janggu, an
hourglassshaped
drum. Sanjo
is
traditionally
identified as
a form of
minsogak, or
folk music
Piano Pieces
by ByungDong Paik
Suite for
Byung-Dong
children,
Paik
Seven
Variations on
a theme of
Song, HaeSub, Three
Essays for
Piano,
Classical
Suite, Un-II
fur Klavier,
Sonate, Three
Bagatelles,
Memorandom
auf eine
Linie,
Verknupfung
Advanced/Diffic
ult
Japan
Volume
Title
Japanese
Festival –
17 Pieces
for
Students
(Universal)
Songs in
the Praise
of Beauty
for Two
Piano Four
Hands
Title of
Composition
Various
including:
Speedy Car,
Japanese
Festival, The
Ballet by the
Little Flower,
A Green
Caterpillar
and a
Butterfly
Songs in the
Praise of
Beauty
Composer Level
Yoshinao
Nakada
Easy to
Early
Intermediate
Yoshinao
Nakada
Advanced
Pedagogical
Interest
Various
Additional
Information
Comparable to
Burgmuller
Etudes
Ensemble
Playing
Tonal.
Forward by
Composer:
“Many think
that
contemporary
music ought
not to contain
any
melody…the
subtitle,
‘Songs in the
Praise of
Beauty’ has
Piano
Pieces for
Little
Hands
Etudes for
Beautiful
Sound,
Pieces for
Concert
Yoshinao
Nakada
Easy to
Early
Advanced
Sad Flower
Sad Flower
Yuzuru
Advanced
Sadashige
Jumps,
Scales,
Arpeggios,
Thirds,
Legato
playing
been added
intentionally to
counteract
such
nonsense.”
Slightly more
advanced than
Burgmuller
Etudes
Avant Garde
Taiwan
Volume
Title
Title of
Compositio
n
Various
including:
Jasimine
Flower
(used in
Turandot),
Counting
the Frog
Catch,
Maiden in
Red, Youth
Dance,
Embroidere
d Purse,
Dark Skies,
Due Due
Don
A Sketch of
the Rainy
Harbor
Composer
Level
Pedagogical
Interest
Transcribed
by Ma ShuiLong
Easy to
Intermediate
Famous
Taiwanese
and Chinese
Folk Tunes,
Legato
playing,
rhythmic
dance meters,
Trills,Tremelo
s, fingered
staccatos
Ma ShuiLong
Intermediate/
Early
Advanced
Rondo for
Solo
Piano
Rondo for
Solo Piano
Ma ShuiLong
Early
Advanced
Colorist
Effects, 4
against 3
meters
Equally
challenging
for both hands
Suite
Taiwan
for Piano
Suite
Taiwan for
Piano Solo
Ma ShuiLong
Advanced
Piano
Pieces on
Chinese
Folk
Tunes for
Children
A Sketch
of Rainy
Harbor
Jumps,
Octaves,
Rolls, Quick
Additional
Informatio
n
Original
Compositio
n
Great
concert
piece for a
student
Solo
Formusica
New
Taiwan
Music,
Volumes I
through
VII
Various
including
folk song
like pieces
to Double
Fugues,
Double
Inventions,
and Play on
Chords
Sonate for
Piano
Various
Very Easy to
Difficult
Kuo ChihYuan
Advanced
Etude“Farewell
”
Etude“Farewell”
Tyzen Hsiao Late
Intermediat Early
Advanced
Toccata
Toccata
Tyzen Hsiao Late
Intermediate
– Early
Advanced
Tyzen
Advanced
Hsiao
Sonate for
Piano
Fantasy
Waltz for
Two
Pianos
China
Fantasy
Waltz for
Two Pianos
Volume
Title of
Composition
Compo
ser
Level
My Favorite
The Spring of
Sun Yi
Early
changes in
moods, Long
trills with
melodies
(found also in
late
Beethoven
Sonatas)
Wide gamut
of
pedagogically
useful pieces
Western
Form, Asian
Idioms and
Harmonies
Heavy
Western
Influence,
very tonal
Romantic;
arpeggios, LH
Melody
against RH
accompanime
nt
Moderate
amount of
Dissonance;
tonal
Heavy
Western
Influence,
Tonal
Pedagogica
l Interest
Wide range
of
selection,
great
pieces for
learning or
for recital
on all
levels
Effective
Concert
Piece
Additional
Informatio
n
Chinese
Folk Songs
Sharaba; Sin
Kiang Dance
Under the
Tuscany Sun;
Kaleidoscope
Lin
Lily
Chang
Advanced
Intermediate
Guessing
Chen
Yi
Advanced
Duo Ye
Chen
Yi
Difficult
Seven Little
Pieces after Folk
Songs from
Chinese
Inner Mongolia,
Piano Music
Suite for
For children
Children,
(Published
Sonatina, the
by Schott)
Young shepherd
with his little
Flute
Luting
He,
Shande
Ding,
Tony
Shang,
Lisan
Wang
Fragment
of Folk
Tune
developed
in Western
compositio
nal
technique
Award
winning
compositi
ons dating
from
1920’s on.
Abundant
Foreword.
Late
Intermediate
A
Collection
of Piano
Pieces
Based on
Chinese
Folk Songs
Various
including the
famous
Romance
Butterfly
Lover’s
Sun Yi
Lin
Chinese
Various
Various Early
Late
Intermediate Advanced
Required
Repertoire
for 2008
Competiti
on for
Youths in
Maryland
Commissi
oned piece
for ages
14-18 at
Renee B
Fisher
Competiti
on
First Prize
winner of
the China
1985
National
Compositi
on
Competiti
on
Taiwan
Folk Tune
Due Due
Don in
piano four
hands
Simple
and
Beautiful
Transcript
ions of the
most
famous
Folk
Tunes
Shorter
Masterpiece
s for Piano
Lullaby
including
Jasmine Flower
Various
Various
including
original
compositions:Va
riations,
Sonatina,
Piano Piece
Toccata;
by Wang
transcription of
Jian Zhong
Japanese and
Chinese Ancient
and modern
tunes (Like
Sakura), Original
Compositions
Various
including
original
compositions:
Prelude No.1
Selected
“An Offering of
Works for
Intimacy”,
the Piano by Theme and
Zhu Jian-Er Variations,
Lullaby, Little
Scherzo, and
Transcriptions:
Five Yunnan
Folk Songs,
Various
Selected
including
Works Yin
“Clouds Chasing
ChengZong
the Moom”,
Intermediate to
Late
Intermediate
Pieces in
General
Simple
and
Beautiful
Transcript
ions of the
most
famous
Folk
Tunes,
includes
CD
Early
Intermediate to
Various
Late
Intermediate
Wang
Jian
Zhong
Zhu
Jian-Er
Yin
Cheng
Zhong
Intermediate Advanced
Multicultur
al –
Chinese
composer
using
western
idiom to
transcribe
Japanese
tunes
Well
Translated
and
Abundant
Foreword
Intermediate Advanced
Advanced
Simple
pieces to
elaborate
show
pieces
Includes
Two Piano
four hands
Composer
of the
famous
Yellow
Suite for Piano
Selected
Chinese
Piano
Pieces
Various
River
Piano
Concerto,
Tchaikow
sky
Competiti
on Prize
Winner
Various
includi
ng
Ding
Shande,
Advance
Wang
Jian
Zhong,
Cui Shi
Guang
Piano
Pieces
1949-1979
Various
Various Advanced
24 Preludes
24 different
romantic titles
?
Selection
from
Chinese
Classical
Music for
Piano,
Volumes 14
Selected
Works for
Cui ShiGuang
Various
including: Ping
Pong Variations,
Five Samll
Pieces for
Children,
Remember
Grandma’s
Stories, Sonatina
No.2,
Shangdong Folk
Suite, Mountain
Spring, Yangko,
Scherzo, Liu
Tianhua
Impormptus,
Pianofoster,
Birds of Crouse,
Influenced
by
Cultural
Revolutio
n,
Communi
st Leaning
Original
Compositi
on
Advanced
1:Intermediate
– Advanced
2:Intermediate
- Advanced
Various
3: Mostly
Advanced
4:Easy Intermediate
Fugues,
Impressions
(compare to
Debussy),
Sonatinas,
Well
Suites,
Translated
Variations.
Small
pieces and
Form Study
Cui
ShiGuang
Harmonical
ly
interesting
(use of the
some jazz
colors)
Intermediate Advanced
Cui’s
DMA was
done at
Syracuse
University
in New
York
Skylark, The
Martyr, The
Torch,
Mountains
Yellow
River Piano
Concerto
Eight Memories
in Watercolor
Tan
Dun
Early
Advanced
Yellow River
Piano Concerto
Yin
Cheng
Zhong
Advanced/Diff
icult
Wu Kui
(Published by
Zhou
Oxford
Long
University Press)
Advanced/Diff
icult
Rhythmic
complexity,
Special
effects
Composer
of music
to
“Crouchin
g Tiger
Hidden
Dragon”
Philadelph
ia
Orchestra
once
toured
China
with this
piece
Class
mate and
husband
of Tan
Dun and
Chen Yi