Reduced Music Of The Korean Renaissance: Songs And Dances Of The Fifteenth Century By J. Condit
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Music of the Korean Renaissance: Songs and Dances of the Fifteenth Century by Jonathan Condit Koreans of the fifteenth century recorded for posterity a large body of music which has been preserved to the present day. This book presents that music for the first time 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. There are songs of love, songs of loyalty to the king, songs with mysterious shamanist texts, songs imported from China, art songs of surprising rhythmic complexity, and lengthy dance suites celebrating the achievements of the founders of Korea's Yi dynasty. Each piece of music is itself fully annotated. The transcriptions are made so that they can easily be sung and played by occidental musicians. In addition, 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. The book is in good condition given its age (published 1984). Spine in tact. Yellowing of dustjacket and inside pages.
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