«Confluence» is a tribute to Singapore’s vibrant and harmonious multicultural society. Indian and Malay-Indonesian melodic styles are fused with Western compositional techniques and performed on Chinese instruments.
The piece begins with the full orchestra imitating the “gong kebyar” style of Balinese gamelan. The first theme is a flowing melody in an Indian style, while the second theme is a lively melody in the gamelan “pelog selisir” pentatonic scale.
The middle section is a fugue with an Indian-style subject juxtaposed against a gamelan-style counter-subject. The latter engages in a cross-rhythm of 3/8 against the 4/4 meter, symbolizing the Confucian philosophy of “harmony in diversity”.
The final section recapitulates the first section and builds up to a grand ending, where the four main melodic motifs are presented simultaneously in counterpoint. This encapsulates the spirit of mutual respect among the four main races and reflects the confluence of cultures in Singapore.
Commissioned as a chamber ensemble piece by the Ding Yi Music Company (Singapore) in 2009, Confluence was later adapted by the composer for Chinese orchestra, symphony orchestra and other instrumentations. In 2019, the Xinyue-MUSA ensemble performed Confluence on the TV programme Chinese Music Banquet broadcast in China. In 2020, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong shared the Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s virtual performance of Confluence on his Facebook page and played the same video at the National Day Rally 2022 as an example of Singaporeans’ “strong sense of unity and resilience in times of crises”.
《融》是一首富有新加坡本土色彩的合奏曲,采用西方对位式作曲技法,结合印度族与马来族的旋律风格,并以华族乐器演奏。
乐曲以峇厘岛甘美兰音乐“开花式”全体合奏掀开序幕。第一主题是个悠扬的印度风格旋律,第二主题是个清脆的甘美兰 pelog selisir 五声音阶旋律。
中段是个“赋格”乐段;印度风格的主题与印尼风格的对题交替发展。主题的 4/4 节拍与对题的 3/8 节拍形成交叉节奏,体现了“和而不同、求同存异”的理念。
末段再现了最初两个主旋律与“开花式”全体合奏,推向华丽的高潮;乐曲的四个主题融合在一起同时奏出,表现新加坡四大种族和睦共处,多元文化相互交融。
《融》于 2009 年由新加坡鼎艺团委约创作室内乐版,后来作者又改编为华乐团、交响乐团等多个版本。2019 年“新月缪斯”乐队在中国大陆电视节目《国乐大典》演奏《融》。2020 年新加坡总理李显龙在其 Facebook 上分享新加坡华乐团录制的《融》线上合奏,并于 2022 年国庆群众大会以同个视频展现新加坡人在疫情中“同舟共济的精神”。
5 Jul 2015 at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Music Director: Zhang Rong Hui
Conductor: Ku Pao-Wen
2015年7月5日于新加坡滨海艺术中心音乐厅
音乐总监:张蓉晖
指挥:顾宝文
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