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Flowers of My Homeland A Composition for SATB Choir, Solo Vocalists, Narrators (Or Fixed Media), and Wind Ensemble
Flowers of My Homeland A Composition for SATB Choir, Solo Vocalists, Narrators (Or Fixed Media), and Wind Ensemble
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103015
- ISBN
- 9798280730540
- DDC
- 781
- 저자명
- Nguyen, Ky Nam.
- 서명/저자
- Flowers of My Homeland A Composition for SATB Choir, Solo Vocalists, Narrators (Or Fixed Media), and Wind Ensemble
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Florida State University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 111 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Callender, Clifton.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (D.M.)--The Florida State University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Flowers of My Homeland is a three-movement composition for SATB choir, solo vocalists, narrators (or fixed media), and wind ensemble, set to excerpts from Truờng Ca Hoa Của Nuớc [Epic of Flowers of My Homeland] by Vietnamese writer Trầm Huong (b. 1963). This work was written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music from Florida State University.Trầm Huong is a prolific author whose works span several fictional and non-fictional genres, including short stories, novels, screenplays, documentaries, and historical research. Her most prominent works focus on women's experiences during the 20th-century wars in Vietnam. Truờng Ca Hoa Của Nuớc, expected to be published in 2025, is a collection of stories of real women she encountered throughout her writing career. This epic poem, composed in free verse, consists of 932 lines. Notably, the poem references 38 different flowers and plants native to Vietnam, providing a vivid glimpse into the country's biodiversity. Each flower or plant, or sometimes a group of them, is associated with the story of a woman or a collective of women who share similar experiences. These women come from diverse backgrounds, social statuses, and professions, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Vietnamese society. However, they are united by the tragedy of war.In my composition, I selected short excerpts from the poem rather than setting the entire text. This approach reflects a personal preference, as the chosen excerpts inspire the most compelling musical ideas to me. Additionally, I took the liberty of making slight modifications to the texts to better combine them with specific musical ideas. The musical composition is divided into three movements, corresponding to the three chapters of the poem. These movements can be performed individually or together as a complete work.The first movement, "Những Bong Hoa Thuỷ Sinh" [The Aquatic Flowers], begins with dreamlike music built upon the motive (025), set to the words "Của nuớc" [belonging to the nation]. This motive subtly evokes the pentatonic characteristic of Vietnamese traditional music and depicts the idyllic beauty of the Vietnamese countryside, home of many kinds of aquatic flowers that serve as a metaphor for the young women who once lived there. The serene music is then interrupted and gradually replaced by dreadful, ominous musical materials that includes different settings of [D-(E)-F-G-B♭-C♯], a "distorted" version of the minor pentatonic scale on D. As the music becomes trapped within this set, the choir conveys the horror of war, when a group of young Vietnamese female artillery soldiers is discovered and surrounded by American aircraft, leading to their complete annihilation in battle. Following the brutal depiction of the battlefield, the choir momentarily recedes. Three soloists, each playing a different character and having distinctive triadic progressions, reflect on the memory of these women. As the movement reaches its conclusion, the dreamlike opening music returns with the melodic motive, but this time with significant variations. Here, the choir sings of how the aquatic flowers continue to bloom as a beacon of memory and hope.The second movement, "Hoa Toi Gặp Tren Duờng Thien Ly" [Many Thousand Miles of Flowers], focuses on the experiences of women beyond the watery countryside and wild jungles. Many of these women came from middle-to-upper-class backgrounds in thriving urban centers such as Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), yet they were not spared from the hardships of war, including imprisonment and torture. Their delicate beauty is poetically symbolized by the peach blossoms and the graceful ao dai, a traditional Vietnamese dress. Musically, this movement is characterized by sparse orchestration, in contrast to the more densely orchestrated first and third movements, with the choir singing a cappella most of the time. Short instrumental interjections between fragmented choral lines emphasize the sense of vulnerability. The "Của nuớc" [belonging to the nation] motive, initially presented as in the first movement, reappears in a transformed version, at the start of the second movement. Additionally, the passage referencing the ao dai employs the hexatonic (augmented-scale) collections to evoke an urban sensibility. These jazz-influenced sonorities contrast with the pastoral pentatonic gestures of the first movement, reflecting the modernized and Western-influenced lifestyles of the women portrayed in this chapter.The third movement, "Hoa Thời Hậu Chiến" [The Post-War Flowers], addresses the experiences of women after the end of the Vietnam-American War in 1975. In the aftermath of the war, they faced immense challenges, including the U.S. trade embargo, the hardships of the Communist subsidy economy, and armed conflicts along the borders with China and Cambodia under Pol Pot's regime. Despite these struggles, these women remained resilient, refusing to resign themselves to fate as they sought ways to create a life. In the first part of the movement, the narrators deliver lines from the poem, either in Vietnamese or English, to recount stories of various women from this era. Their voices emerge above strands of swelling sounds in an atmospheric texture that is interrupted by the recurring "Toi viết về hoa" [I wrote about flowers] motive . As the narrators concludes, the choir enters with the ""Toi viết về hoa" motive, then continues singing the texts that reflect on the poet's thankfulness to the life lessons from flowers and plants. The text then reflects on the hope that the stories of these flowers, these women, would live on forever. The motive reemerges as an inversion, , when the text first mentioning the word "Cảm on" [Thank you], then undergoing transpositions and inversions, serving as a unifying thread that bridges the contrasting musical ideas of the whole work. In this movement, I draw together the pentatonic, fifth-based sonorities and long, flowing melodic lines characteristic of the first movement with the more chromatic, fragmented, and dissonant textures of the second movement.With this composition, I also challenge myself to expand the emerging repertoire for wind ensemble and choir, a pairing still relatively new compared to the long-established tradition of orchestral-choral works. In terms of language choice, while most of my previous vocal music has been set to English texts or English translations of Vietnamese texts, this piece marks my first attempt at composing a large-scale work in Vietnamese, my mother tongue. Although the use of Vietnamese may present challenges for non-Vietnamese-speaking choirs, as the language is still underrepresented in Western and global concert music, I believe it is the most appropriate choice for the theme of this piece. Moreover, contemporary composers of vocal music have long explored new ways of producing sounds with the human voice, and I believe that incorporating a less common language with an unfamiliar phonology into Western concert repertoires is in the same spirit as this artistic pursuit.Coincidentally, I completed Flowers of My Homeland in 2025, which marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam-American War. Yet, for half a century, the voices of Vietnamese women have been largely excluded, their stories buried, distorted, and silenced in American and global mainstream culture. There was a time when American people who expressed even the slightest sympathy for the Vietnamese side risked being labeled "communists." If this reality persists, it will hinder a deeper understanding of the war's long-lasting and devastating impact on Vietnam and its people. Therefore, with Flowers of My Homeland, I strive to address the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of Vietnamese people, especially women. It is a major musical work composed by a Vietnamese woman, based on the writing of another Vietnamese woman, that gives voice to countless other Vietnamese women whose kindness, resilience, love, and sacrifices have protected their loved ones during war and fostered healing in its aftermath.
- 일반주제명
- Musical composition
- 일반주제명
- Music
- 일반주제명
- Performing arts
- 일반주제명
- Musical performances
- 키워드
- SATB choir
- 키워드
- Symphonic band
- 키워드
- Vietnamese women
- 키워드
- Wind ensemble
- 기타저자
- The Florida State University Music
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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Notably, the poem references 38 different flowers and plants native to Vietnam, providing a vivid glimpse into the country's biodiversity. Each flower or plant, or sometimes a group of them, is associated with the story of a woman or a collective of women who share similar experiences. These women come from diverse backgrounds, social statuses, and professions, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Vietnamese society. However, they are united by the tragedy of war.In my composition, I selected short excerpts from the poem rather than setting the entire text. This approach reflects a personal preference, as the chosen excerpts inspire the most compelling musical ideas to me. Additionally, I took the liberty of making slight modifications to the texts to better combine them with specific musical ideas. The musical composition is divided into three movements, corresponding to the three chapters of the poem. These movements can be performed individually or together as a complete work.The first movement, "Những Bong Hoa Thuỷ Sinh" [The Aquatic Flowers], begins with dreamlike music built upon the motive (025), set to the words "Của nuớc" [belonging to the nation]. This motive subtly evokes the pentatonic characteristic of Vietnamese traditional music and depicts the idyllic beauty of the Vietnamese countryside, home of many kinds of aquatic flowers that serve as a metaphor for the young women who once lived there. The serene music is then interrupted and gradually replaced by dreadful, ominous musical materials that includes different settings of [D-(E)-F-G-B♭-C♯], a "distorted" version of the minor pentatonic scale on D. As the music becomes trapped within this set, the choir conveys the horror of war, when a group of young Vietnamese female artillery soldiers is discovered and surrounded by American aircraft, leading to their complete annihilation in battle. Following the brutal depiction of the battlefield, the choir momentarily recedes. Three soloists, each playing a different character and having distinctive triadic progressions, reflect on the memory of these women. As the movement reaches its conclusion, the dreamlike opening music returns with the melodic motive, but this time with significant variations. Here, the choir sings of how the aquatic flowers continue to bloom as a beacon of memory and hope.The second movement, "Hoa Toi Gặp Tren Duờng Thien Ly" [Many Thousand Miles of Flowers], focuses on the experiences of women beyond the watery countryside and wild jungles. Many of these women came from middle-to-upper-class backgrounds in thriving urban centers such as Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), yet they were not spared from the hardships of war, including imprisonment and torture. Their delicate beauty is poetically symbolized by the peach blossoms and the graceful ao dai, a traditional Vietnamese dress. Musically, this movement is characterized by sparse orchestration, in contrast to the more densely orchestrated first and third movements, with the choir singing a cappella most of the time. Short instrumental interjections between fragmented choral lines emphasize the sense of vulnerability. The "Của nuớc" [belonging to the nation] motive, initially presented as in the first movement, reappears in a transformed version, at the start of the second movement. Additionally, the passage referencing the ao dai employs the hexatonic (augmented-scale) collections to evoke an urban sensibility. These jazz-influenced sonorities contrast with the pastoral pentatonic gestures of the first movement, reflecting the modernized and Western-influenced lifestyles of the women portrayed in this chapter.The third movement, "Hoa Thời Hậu Chiến" [The Post-War Flowers], addresses the experiences of women after the end of the Vietnam-American War in 1975. In the aftermath of the war, they faced immense challenges, including the U.S. trade embargo, the hardships of the Communist subsidy economy, and armed conflicts along the borders with China and Cambodia under Pol Pot's regime. Despite these struggles, these women remained resilient, refusing to resign themselves to fate as they sought ways to create a life. In the first part of the movement, the narrators deliver lines from the poem, either in Vietnamese or English, to recount stories of various women from this era. Their voices emerge above strands of swelling sounds in an atmospheric texture that is interrupted by the recurring "Toi viết về hoa" [I wrote about flowers] motive . As the narrators concludes, the choir enters with the ""Toi viết về hoa" motive, then continues singing the texts that reflect on the poet's thankfulness to the life lessons from flowers and plants. The text then reflects on the hope that the stories of these flowers, these women, would live on forever. The motive reemerges as an inversion, , when the text first mentioning the word "Cảm on" [Thank you], then undergoing transpositions and inversions, serving as a unifying thread that bridges the contrasting musical ideas of the whole work. In this movement, I draw together the pentatonic, fifth-based sonorities and long, flowing melodic lines characteristic of the first movement with the more chromatic, fragmented, and dissonant textures of the second movement.With this composition, I also challenge myself to expand the emerging repertoire for wind ensemble and choir, a pairing still relatively new compared to the long-established tradition of orchestral-choral works. In terms of language choice, while most of my previous vocal music has been set to English texts or English translations of Vietnamese texts, this piece marks my first attempt at composing a large-scale work in Vietnamese, my mother tongue. Although the use of Vietnamese may present challenges for non-Vietnamese-speaking choirs, as the language is still underrepresented in Western and global concert music, I believe it is the most appropriate choice for the theme of this piece. Moreover, contemporary composers of vocal music have long explored new ways of producing sounds with the human voice, and I believe that incorporating a less common language with an unfamiliar phonology into Western concert repertoires is in the same spirit as this artistic pursuit.Coincidentally, I completed Flowers of My Homeland in 2025, which marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam-American War. Yet, for half a century, the voices of Vietnamese women have been largely excluded, their stories buried, distorted, and silenced in American and global mainstream culture. There was a time when American people who expressed even the slightest sympathy for the Vietnamese side risked being labeled "communists." If this reality persists, it will hinder a deeper understanding of the war's long-lasting and devastating impact on Vietnam and its people. Therefore, with Flowers of My Homeland, I strive to address the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of Vietnamese people, especially women. It is a major musical work composed by a Vietnamese woman, based on the writing of another Vietnamese woman, that gives voice to countless other Vietnamese women whose kindness, resilience, love, and sacrifices have protected their loved ones during war and fostered healing in its aftermath.
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