Augusta Read Thomas: qì - for four percussionists playing 2 marimbas (Nimbus Music Publishing NMP1029) - Softcover

Augusta Read Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9790708129202

Publisher: Nimbus Music Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

For four percussionists playing 2 marimbas (two players sharing a 4.3-octave marimba and two players sharing a 5-octave marimba) Dedicated with admiration and gratitude to those who commissioned the work and to Third Coast Percussion. qì is the circulating vital life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things. In traditional Chinese culture, qì or ch'i or ki in Korean culture and ki in Japanese culture is an active principle forming part of any living thing. qì literally translates as 'breath', 'air', and figuratively as 'material energy', 'life force', or 'energy flow'. Concepts similar to qì can be found in many cultures: prana in Hinduism (and elsewhere in Indian culture), chi in the Igbo religion, pneuma in ancient Greece, mana in Hawaiian culture, lüng in Tibetan Buddhism, manitou in the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, ruah in Jewish culture, and vital energy in Western philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nimbus Music Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9790708129202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40