Please join Yingfei Li in her doctoral lecture recital, exploring Lin Hua’s "24 Preludes and Fugues on Reading Sikong Tu’s Personality of Poems." The selected pieces in this lecture, four preludes and four fugues, represent Lin’s style from different dimensionalities. In general, almost all preludes are in variation form and fugues are in three-part: exposition, development, and stretto ending. In detailed, these twelve selected pieces can be divided into six pairs according to their most distinguished characteristics: continuous moving sixteenth notes (Powerful Grandeur), continuous moving triples (Flowing Motion), special ornamentations (Subtle Mildness, and Florid Splendour), unusual forms (Ancient Manner, and Implicit Charm), complexity in fugue writing (Meticulous Thoughts), and distinctive fugue theme (Sublime Vigour). All characteristic are strongly linked with meaning of Sikong Tu’s poems. Lin’s set is a complex and unified collection containing elements from Chinese and Western culture, traditional and new composition rules, music and literature in prelude and fugue form.

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