Description:

This collection of 24 songs has three chapters. Chapter one is my attempt to compose music to some of my favorite classical Chinese poems. A type of Chinese poetry, called Ci, were accompanied by music. There are many different tunes, each to go with a different structure of Ci poetry, called Ci Pai. These melodies were mostly lost. I tried to compose some simple tunes, in the manner of folk songs, for some of these Ci Pai in this chapter. Chapter two are some of my favorite Chinese songs. I tried to translate the lyrics in a way so that the English lyric can still be sung with the original melody. Chapter three is my attempt to take melody elements or musical structure from famuous composers or songs and to try apply them to some favorite poems or songs.