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The Road To The Holy Temple

by Yang Liu

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The Road to the Holy Temple

The Road to the Holy Temple is an orchestral piece which was inspired by an experience in Tibet when I saw people coming to a pilgrimage at the holy temples. I was fascinated by the sound of the Tibetan Buddhist monks praying and the Tibetan instruments, the sound of which I attempt to capture in this piece as part of the main materials. The work is
constructed in two movements. The first movement focuses on the journey to the holy
temple, and the second section explores the chanting found in the temples of Tibet.
The most important elements in The Road to the Holy Temple are those drawn from the
Tibetan influences which are the sound of the Tibetan Buddhist monks praying alongside the Tibetan instruments. In order to conjure up the sound of the Tibetan instruments, I used tingsha bells as one of the main percussion instruments in this piece. Tingsha bells are pitched instruments and I used two of them in E and F sharp. In Tibet, tingsha bells are always used as a sign for the pilgrims to pray, which I want to explore as a signal sound associated with the Tibetan Buddhist monks’ praying materials in my music.
In accordance with the sound of the chanting monks, I added a singer in the second
movement who led other parts to complete the ritual. The text of the vocal part is inspired by the ‘six-word mantra’ which I mentioned in the previous section. In Chinese, the ‘six-word mantras’ are 嗡(ōng), 嘛(mā), 呢(nī), 叭(bā), 咪(mēi), 吽(hong) which are commonly found in chanted Sanskrit. I chose to pick up some of their syllables in the text of my vocal part which are interpreted as “Na”, “Mo”, “Ma”, “Mi”.

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released October 8, 2019
Yang Liu is a Chinese composer who came to England to study composition at the Birmingham
Conservatoire in 2006, under the tuition of Joe Cutler, Richard Causton and Andrew Glover. From
2010, He studied his Master and DMus course of composition in Royal College of Music, under the
supervision of Jonathan Cole, Michael Oliva, and Haris Kittos. During his study in UK, he received many
commissions such as BCMG, National Gallery, Variable Geometry Ensemble, Lemberg Sinfonietta and
Guiyang Symphony Orchestra etc. He has also won many composition prices, especially his string
orchestra work Invisible Valley won the 2nd price of ALFRED SCHNITTKE International Composers’
Competition 2017 (first price was not assigned), and the score was published by Aldebaran Editions.
Between 2016 to 2018, he was hired as a teaching assistant in RCM.

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