Chen Yi
As In A Dream (Two Songs)
Year: 1988
Duration (in minutes): 7'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: small chamber ensembles - 2 to 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble
Instruments: any female voice, any high voice, any string, any voice, cello, soprano, violin
Description: Two songs, settings of poems by Li Qing-Zhao (Song Dynasty). "...the traditional Chinese glissando and vibratto became various delicate and fascinating expression, Chinese speech became music directly, by singing in exaggerated reciting style." Frankfurter Allgemeine