Snyder, John L.2019-09-132019-09-13May 20192019-05May 2019https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4469Chen Yi (b.1953), one of the leading Chinese-born American composers today, has earned a reputation in the world as a female composer of contemporary music. Both Chinese and Western musical styles have influenced Chen’s compositional style. As one of the new-wave movement composers, Chen has blended Chinese musical ideas into contemporary Western compositions, to develop a fusion of Chinese and Western musical styles. This paper will discuss how Chen’s personal life experiences have impacted her compositional philosophy by drawing from her personal interviews. An overview of Chen’s compositions shows how her perspectives on her Chinese identity and her inspirations from Chinese culture influenced her personal compositional style. My analysis of From the Path of Beauty will investigate how she applies her compositional philosophy, and how she incorporates her own interpretation of Chinese culture in this work.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Yi, ChenString quartetsChinese and Western2019-09-13Thesisborn digital