Sound from the Earth (full score)
Orchestra; duration:  20'15"
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World premiere of "Sound from the Earth", performed by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) at the Wufemg Democracy grassland, Taichung, Taiwan on October 17, 2020 with Yeh Cheng-Te conducting.

"Sound from the Earth" - Program Note

This piece is for middle size of the orchestra, written to commemorate the contributions made by a group of Taiwanese young people of perception like Lin Xian-tang, Tsai Hui-ru, Lin You-chun, Jiang Wei-shui, Wu Hai-shui, Tsai Pei-huo, Lai He and others to the promotion of Taiwanese cultural enlightenment in the early 1920s. This music is consisted of three movements: "Root", "Ancient Tune" and "Inheritance".

Movement I. Root - Based on the minor second interval, this motive is used to expand and develop, layer by layer, and this is a metaphor that regardless of the changes of the times, it cannot be forgotten at all.

Movement II. Acient Tune - Motivated by the fragmented melody of ruual music, it adopts chamber music style. In the music, it sometimes can be hear a familiar melody duet and mutual chanting, and sometimes can be hear a ancient tune amidst a bunch of chaotic sounds. novels.

Movement III. Inheritance - Mainly describes the process of cultural movements such as the group of perception people rushing for Taiwanese culture during the severe Japanese colonial period, creating the association, establishing newspaper offices, performing cultual dramas, and holding cultural lectures. The music begins to provide a dissonant background, occassionally to hear a familiar meldoy from memory. The middle section also has a extension from the first movement. It also can be hear a fragment from Hengchun folksong "Nostalgia". It is also an attempt to gratitude the origin of drinking water between inheritance and innovation. And unbreakable spirits, positive attitudes let the culture continue to improve and pass on.

This piece was commissioned by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2020.

Instrumentation
picc., 2, 2, 2, B.cl, 2, 4, 2, 2, Tuba. 1 Timp. 2 Per. Harp, Str.


《來自泥土的聲音》– 樂曲解說

此曲為二管編制管絃樂曲，為紀念早期1920年代, 一些台灣有識之士青年 林獻堂、蔡惠如、林幼春、蔣渭水、吳海水、蔡培火、賴和等人為台灣文化啟蒙 推動所做的貢獻， 提升文化發展而寫下的樂曲。此曲共分為三樂章：《根》、 《古調》及《傳承》

第一樂章<根> - 以小二度音程為基底，以此動機擴大發展，層層推移堆積並 以此暗喻無論時代的變遷，其根本不能忘卻。

第二樂章<古調> - 以農村曲的片段旋律為動機，採室內樂型式，曲中時而聽到 熟悉旋律的對唱互詠，亦有在一堆雜亂聲響中聽到一條清晰的古調。

第三樂章<傳承> - 主要描述在嚴峻的日治殖民時期，這些有識之士為台灣文化 奔走，創辦協會、成立讀報社，演出文化劇、舉辦文化講習等文化運動之過程， 樂曲 開始輔陳背景雖為不協和聲響，但偶而能聽到一個記憶猶新的旋律，中段也有來自第一樂章 的延申，結束段落亦可聽到思想起的片段旋律，企圖在傳統與創新的同時，要保有飲水 思源的精神，讓文化繼以提升並傳承下去。

本曲為2020年國立台灣交響樂團委託創作。