Editing Tan Dun (section)

===Film and multimedia===
Tan Dun earned more widespread attention after composing the score for [[Ang Lee]]'s ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' (2000), for which he won an [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Academy Award]], a [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Grammy Award]], and a [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Music|BAFTA Award]].<ref name="oscars">The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The Official Academy Awards Database." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org.</ref><ref name="grammy">The Recording Academy. "Past Winners Search." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search.</ref><ref name="bafta">[http://awards.bafta.org/award/2001/film/anthony-asquith-award-for-the-achievement-in-film-music "Film: Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music in 2001."] [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]]. Retrieved 5 September 2016.</ref> Other film credits include the aforementioned ''[[Hero (2002 film)|Hero]]'' ([[Zhang Yimou]], 2002), [[Gregory Hoblit]]'s ''[[Fallen (1998 film)|Fallen]]'' (1998), and [[Feng Xiaogang]]'s ''[[The Banquet (2006 film)|The Banquet]]'' (2006).

Following the composition of the film score for ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'', Tan Dun rearranged the music to create the ''Crouching Tiger Concerto'' for cello, video, and chamber orchestra. Containing edited footage from the film, this work reverses the role of music in film by treating video as secondary.<ref>Music Sales Group. "Crouching Tiger Concerto (2000)." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.schirmer.com/composer/work/1561/33553.</ref> This same technique was later applied to his film scores for ''Hero'' and ''The Banquet'', resulting in the larger work known as the ''Martial Arts Cycle''.<ref>Music Sales Group. "Martial Arts Cycle." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.schirmer.com/composer/work/1561/46821.</ref>

In 2002, Tan Dun continued experimenting with application of video in music ''The Map'', also for cello, video, and orchestra. ''The Map'' features documentary footage depicting the lives of China's [[Tujia people|Tujia]], [[Miao people|Miao]], and [[Dong people|Dong]] [[List of ethnic groups in China|ethnic minorities]].<ref>Janet E. Bedell, "The Map: Concerto for Violoncello, Orchestra and Video." Boston Symphony Orchestra, 2007. Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.bsomusic.org/res/multimedia/101207TanDunTheMap.pdf.</ref> The musicians onstage, including the cello soloist, interact with the musicians onscreen—a duet of live and recorded performance.<ref>Music Sales Group. "The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra (2002)." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.schirmer.com/composer/work/1561/33565.</ref> The work was premiered and commissioned by the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] with [[Yo-Yo Ma]].<ref>Boston Symphony Orchestra. "World Premieres: The New Millennium." Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/about-us/historyarchives/archival-collection/world-premieres-at-the-bso/world-premieres-the-new-millennium.aspx.</ref>

Tan Dun's most recent multimedia work, ''Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women'' (2013), is a 13-movement work for video, solo harp, and orchestra. Following years of [[Ethnomusicology|ethnomusicological]] research in Hunan, the work captures the sounds of [[Nüshu script]], a phonetic writing system devised by women speakers of the [[Xiangnan Tuhua]] dialect who had been disallowed from receiving formal education. Considered a [[language death|dying language]], Tan Dun's research resulted in a series of short films of women singing songs written in Nüshu, which are presented alongside the orchestral performance. As with ''The Map'', the songs in the video are used in counterpoint to the live music.<ref>The Philadelphia Orchestra. "Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra Present Philadelphia Commissions Micro-Festival." 27 August 2013. Accessed 1 November 2013. http://www.philorch.org/press-room/news/yannick-n%C3%A9zet-s%C3%A9guin-and-philadelphia-orchestra-present-philadelphia-commissions.</ref>