Download or read book Hwang Byungki Traditional Music and the Contemporary Composer in the Republic of Korea written by Andrew Killick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who knows anything of Korean music probably knows something of Hwang Byungki. As a composer, performer, scholar, and administrator, Hwang has had an exceptional influence on the world of Korean traditional music for over half a century. During that time, Western-style music (both classical and popular) has become the main form of musical expression for most Koreans, while traditional music has taken on a special role as a powerful emblem of national identity. Through analysis of Hwang's life and works, this book addresses the broader question of traditional music's place in a rapidly modernizing yet intensely nationalistic society, as well as the issues faced by a composer working in an idiom in which the very concept of the individual composer was not traditionally recognized. It explores how new music for traditional instruments can provide a means of negotiating between a local identity and the modern world order. This is the first book in English about an Asian composer who writes primarily for traditional instruments. Following a thematic rather than a rigidly chronological approach, each chapter focuses on a particular area of interest or activity-such as Hwang's unique position in the traditional genre kayagum sanjo, his enduring interest in Buddhist culture and a meditative aesthetic, and his adoption of extended techniques and approaches from Western avant-garde music-and includes in-depth analysis of selected works, excerpts from which are provided on downloadable resources. The book draws on 25 years of personal acquaintance and study with Hwang Byungki as well as experience in playing his music.
Download or read book Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians written by Timothy Rice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a tribute to Robert Garfias, who has conducted field work in more cultures than any other living ethnomusicologist, this volume explores the originating encounter in field work of ethnomusicologists with the musicians and musical traditions they study. The nineteen contributors provide case studies from nearly every corner of the world, including biographies of important musicians from the Philippines, Turkey, Lapland, and Korea; interviews with, and reports of learning from, musicians from Ireland, Bulgaria, Burma, and India; and analyses of how traditional musicians adapt to the encounter with modernity in Japan, India, China, Turkey, Afghanistan, Morocco, and the United States. The book also provides a window into the history of ethnomusicology since all the contributors have had a relationship with the University of Washington, home to one of the oldest programs in ethnomusicology in the United States. Inspired by the example of Robert Garfias, they are all indefatigable field researchers and among the leading authorities in the world on their particular musical cultures. The contributions illustrate the core similarities in their approach to the discipline of ethnomusicology and at the same time deal with a remarkably wide range of perspectives, themes, issues, and theoretical questions. Readers should find this collection of essays a fascinating, indeed surprising, glimpse into an important aspect of the history of ethnomusicology.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Asian Music Cultural Intersections written by Tong Soon Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections introduces Asian music as a way to ask questions about what happens when cultures converge and how readers may evaluate cultural junctures through expressive forms. The volume’s thirteen original chapters cover musical practices in historical and modern contexts from Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, including art music traditions, folk music and composition, religious and ritual music, as well as popular music. These chapters showcase the diversity of Asian music, requiring readers to constantly reconsider their understanding of this vibrant and complex area. The book is divided into three sections: Locating meanings Boundaries and difference Cultural flows Contributors to the book offer a multidisciplinary portfolio of methods, ranging from archival research and field ethnography to biographical studies and music analysis. In addition to rich illustrations, numerous samples of notation and sheet music are featured as insightful study resources. Readers are invited to study individuals, music-makers, listeners, and viewers to learn about their concerns, their musical choices, and their lives through a combination of humanistic and social-scientific approaches. Demonstrating how transformative cultural differences can become in intercultural encounters, this book will appeal to students and scholars of musicology, ethnomusicology, and anthropology.
Download or read book Perspectives on Korean Music Creating Korean music tradition innovation and the discourse of identity written by Keith Howard and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage--updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by incorporating the voices of musicians, composers, scholars and critics.
Download or read book Music and Conflict written by John Morgan O'Connell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the role of music in conflict situations across the world, this study shows how it can both incite violence & help rebuild communities.
Download or read book Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taeg m Flute Performance written by Hyelim Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition and Creativity in Korean Taegŭm Flute Performance describes the taegŭm as a representation of Korean culture in the contemporary world. Through the development and performance of creative works, this horizontal bamboo flute reflects both tradition and contemporary creativity. The first part of the book outlines the historical background of the taegŭm. The author illuminates the potential future of the Korean flute in a globalised world through the analyses of three musical works for taegŭm. The second part of the book draws on approaches of Practice Research within ethnomusicology and sociology to examine the ways in which the taegŭm tradition interacts with, and responds to, different genres in performance. Documenting collaborative encounters with musicians from three musical cultures: jazz, Western art and electroacoustic music, the result is an innovative exploration of the musical and social relationships between composers, performers and audiences in intercultural performances, contrasting traditional uses of the taegŭm with perspectives on its use today.
Download or read book Contemporary Kayag m Music in Korea written by Hee-sun Kim and published by 민속원. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on Korean Music Creating Korean music tradition innovation and the discourse of identity written by Keith Howard and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Byungki Hwang and His Contemporary Gayageum Works written by Jihyun Kim and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byungki Hwang (1936-2018) was a pioneering contemporary gayageum composer. Hwang made prolific and remarkable contributions to the modern history of Korean traditional music and its repertoire through his main instrument, the gayageum. Though his works are firmly rooted in Korean traditional music, they rely extensively on the vocabularies of Western classical music. In this manner, Hwang's music is both idiosyncratic and unconventional as his compositions fuse tradition with innovation. This thesis examines five representative works - Chimhyangmu, Pidangil, Migung, Sigyetap, and Hamadan - of Hwang's from different stylistic periods, and traces Hwang's search for his own compositional voice. His work achieves syncretism by 1) assimilating tradition with the modern; 2) by merging of Eastern and Western musical aesthetics; and 3) by taking inspiration from ancient history as well as current affairs, thus bridging time.
Download or read book Schwann Opus written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korean Music written by Keith Howard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korea Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Korean Kayag m Sanjo written by Keith Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean genre of sanjo is one of the most popular genres of traditional music taught in schools and universities within Korea, and a staple of national and international performance tours. Sanjo comprises a set of related pieces for solo melodic instruments and drum. A number of 'schools' (ryu) are recognized, each based on the performance style of a master musician, usually a musician from an earlier generation. Sanjo was first devised for the kayagum 12-stringed plucked long zither and is now played on all major Korean instruments. This volume explores, records, notates, and documents the Kim Chukp'a school of kayagum sanjo. Two audio CDs accompany the book, one featuring Lee playing Kim's complete sanjo, and the second, a 'bonus' CD of a second sanjo for the six-stringed zither, komun'go, played by Kim Sunok.
Download or read book Proceedings of the First Asian Pacific Music Conference 12 18 October 1975 Seoul Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
