Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and Dances of the Fifteenth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521106877 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sing medieval Chinese & Korean music! Historians, musicians, come together! Medievalists, re-enactors, awake! Bards of the SCA, oyey! At long last music long unavailable to us to study and perform is at last BACK IN PRINT!The music and musical history of the far east is perhaps one of the most obscure subjects in all of East Asian history. When you realize that less than 1% of all documents in Asian languages have been translated to western languages, it is clear that what we do not know about Far Eastern history, language, music, and
This book presents that music in transcription, with an introductory section providing detailed background on the music itself and on the sources, the song texts, court dances, musical instruments and possibilities for performance on western instruments. Koreans of the fifteenth century recorded for posterity a large body of music which has been preserved to the present day. The fact that the song texts are translated makes this the largest published anthology of early Korean verse in translation. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography and glossaries including the original Chinese for the titles of the pieces, names of the instruments, etc. Though its origins are distant from us in both time and place, the fifteenth-century Korean repertoire is immediately appealing to the occidental ear: hence this collection will be of interest not only to the student of Asian music but also to any musician with a taste for the unusual.