Description
This is one of the chamber music composed by Man-Ching Donald Yu and is written for and dedicated to Ithaca Colleges Trombone professor Harold Reynolds. The title is inspired by charming shadow of a mountain under the sea upon its shadow was refracted by evening sunlight. The music begins with an uprising tender and impressionistic-like thematic gesture and it recurs several times in the whole piece before each new section begins. The trombone states the song-like main motivic figure after the short piano introduction and this figure develops in various ways throughout the whole piece. The middle section tends to be more energetic and the piano quasi-cadenza part drives numerous harmonic colors in this section and the harmonic language is more chromatic. Nevertheless, the harmonic structure of the piece is well delineated by the pedal tone of each section and this gives more coherence of the music as a whole. The music ends with a loud tone on C. The style of the music is neo-tonality in which the tonal point of the music is established by the non-traditional means.