Interpretation of Extended Techniques in Unaccompanied flute Works by East-Asian Composers: Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, and Kazuo Fukushima
Seon Hee Jang · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 2010
Extended flute techniques include many different ways of producing non-traditional sonorities and effects on the flute and have been an important compositional staple of Avantgarde composers in the twentieth century.While many of these techniques developed exclusively within the Western tradition, many others derived from influence of non-Western flute traditions.Three East-Asian composers, Isang Yun (1917-1995), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), and Kazuo Fukushima (b.1930), contributed to this performance practice style by drawing from the flute traditions of their cultures.By focusing on the unaccompanied solo flute works of these three composers, this document will demonstrate many of the important applications of extended flute techniques in the twentieth century present their East-Asian influences and provide performance suggestions for this repertoire.iii