[Hwang Yau-tai] Suite in E Phrygian Mode “Hometown Suite” for Piano (Score-Video)
黄友棣 —— 家乡组曲
The work is a suite in sonata form with three movements without break:
0:02 - I. Allegro moderato (sonata form) - attacca:
The first theme is a Suiyuan folk song, ‘Lunar New Year's greetings’, and is harmonised in Phrygian mode; the second theme is in C major, and is based on the staccato and leaping intervals of the third and fourth stanzas of the first theme. The material of the Exposition section is taken from the rhythm of the beginning of the first theme. In the recapitulation section, the theme is simplified in order to make it more concise. The second theme appears in E major, the eponymous major key of Phrygian mode. The main design of this chapter is to use the modes in unison with the major key.
2:27 - II. Andante molto Sostenuto (variation form) - attacca:
The introduction is in rubato tempo. The theme is the northern Cantonese folk song ‘Falling Water’ which is in A Aeolian. The three variations do not add outward ornamentation, but rather analogise the inner tonality. The first variation is A Dorian (with the same key signature as G major); the second variation is A Lydian (with the same key signature as E major); and the third variation is back to A Aeolian. The ornamental phrases are like the sentences of the notes. The rhythm of the first theme of the first movement is used to recall the whole piece.
6:33 - III. Allegretto
The theme is the Shaanxi folk song ‘Blowing in the South Wind’, treated in the Phrygian mode to unify the whole piece. The middle theme is a line from the Kangding folk song, ‘The Moon is Bending’. The theme is reproduced and simplified. Within the three chapters, there is the rhythm of the theme of ‘Lunar New Year's greetings’ running through them to unify the whole piece.
The Hometown Suite is based on the theme of folk songs and focuses on nostalgia for the countryside. The first chapter expresses the happiness of spring, the second the melancholy of spring, and the third the blowing of the south wind and the shining of the moon, all of which express the scenery of summer.
(Source from the score)
Performer:
Azusa Fujita
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