POINTS OF INTERSECTION: AN AMERICAN COMPOSER MEETS EAST ASIAN INSTRUMENTS
In this article, adapted from a keynote speech given at the Taipei Chinese Orchestra’s 2023 International Symposium on New Music for Chinese Instruments, Donald Womack discusses his experiences composing for East Asian instruments, focusing on the importance of finding points of intersection between the natural capabilities of the instruments a composer writes for and the composer’s own artistic voice.
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THOUGHTS ON KOREAN INSTRUMENTS, FROM A WESTERN COMPOSER’S PERSPECTIVE
In this 2018 article, commissioned by the Seoul National Gugak Center for its instrumentation book, Donald Womack addresses the essential characteristics of Korean instruments as well as challenges to working with Korean instruments that composers coming from the western compositional tradition face, and offers advice on successful approaches composers may take.
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