8
Ghost Opera
Tan Dun · b. 1957 · Chinese
For 2 violins, viola, cello, lute
Also known as Ghost Opera for string quartet and pipa
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- Other ensemble
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 36 min
- Composed
- 1994
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
String quartet and pipa (entered as lute) with water bowls, stones, paper and metal; five parts, about 36 minutes
About this work
- Bach, Monks, and Shakespeare Meet in Water
- Earth Dance
- Dialogue with 'Little Cabbage'
- Metal and Stone
- Song of Paper