I wrote this piece after reading a poem called, Counting the Stars at Night, by Yun Dong-Ju. The melody line gradually builds up towards the end towards the rapid descending melodic pattern with the 16th notes, which represents the poet's sorrow while he recalls his family and friends inside of the jail cell. The reason why he was thrown in jail is due to the fact that the poet was writing poems which criticized Japan, who took over Korea at the time as a colony.

Starry Night

This is a String Quartet version of Guiliame Du Machaut's Douce Dame Jolie. I rearranged this medieval piece into a classical style string quartet for a assignment for my Music History class.

Douce Dame Jolie (String Quartet Arrangement)

Spring Breeze Waltz

String Quartet In G Minor

It is an example of classicism music since the Baroque quotation is contained within my own melodies. Vivaldi's Summer and Autumn movements from his Four Seasons Violin Concerti are quoted in my music and Korean traditional folk song, "Arirang" is also in my piece to symbolize the beauty of East Asian Music.

Travel To The Far East With Vivaldi

It's my version of the Mozart's "Laudate Dominum". There are some parts where it sounds like the original piece but I made an effort to keep the piece to sound like folk music.

Laudate Dominum (W.A. Mozart) In Folk Style

This is my very first Orchestral piece. I wrote it in over a month and the title came from a conversation between my uncle and myself on a Sunday night, while listening to the first draft of this piece together. After listening to the whole piece, my uncle told me that it sounds like a soundtrack to a tragic love scene between two people and I told him that I may have been there as a joke. And the lightbulb went on inside of my head and thus the title was born.

Daniel Donggi Lee

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