GuiHANGtar

Program

 

Call of the Mountain Forest

The mystical landscape and the supernatural world of Vietnamese highlands


Highland Dreaming

Melody and dance rhythms of the Vietnamese highlanders


Nocturne

Creating tone color of the Vietnamese gongs in a study of natural harmonics and the new staccato-harmonoic duotone technique


Moonlight


Come Together

The sounds and activities of the highland harvesters during a good rice crop


Love Song

Nonfunctional harmony for a Vietnamese traditional love song Ly Con Sao


Sunset

Exploration of sonorities on the Vietnamese folk song Ly Chieu Chieu


Fantasia

An arrangement of the folksong Trong Com from North Vietnam for the guitar


Chanson du Sud (Homage to Debussy)

Use of the whole-tone scale for the folk song Ly Chim Quyen from South Vietnam


Gods of the Highlands

Ambience of overtone clusters depicting ritual rhythms of a highland festival


White Bird

Vietnamese folk song Co La



Compositions and arrangements by Lê-Tuyên Nguyêñ