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Traditional Korean Music in Contemporary Context: A Performance Guide to Gideon Gee Bum Kim's Kangkangsullae

Gideon Gee Bum Kim is an internationally-acclaimed contemporary Korean-Canadian composer. Kim has utilized traditional Korean music with Western composition techniques in some of his works. Kim created his own style by incorporating traditional Korean musical elements such as the scale, rhythmic diversity, syncopation, variation, ornamentation, and the progression of melody into a body of music that is otherwise contemporary and Western. The purpose of this study is to develop a performance guide for Gideon Gee Bum Kim's Kangkangsullae for string trio. Kangkangsullae trio is based on Korean historical, cultural and musical influences. I give a detailed historical and cultural background for this work and demonstrate how Kim integrated Western compositional techniques with traditional Korean music. My emphasis is on defining specific characteristics of traditional Korean music which will provide several points toward understanding Kim's compositional style.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1157533
Date05 1900
CreatorsLee, Hyejin
ContributorsLewis, Philip (Violinist), Chesky, Kris S., Dubois, Susan
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 42 pages : illustrations, music, Text
RightsPublic, Lee, Hyejin, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
RelationRecital: March 18, 2014, ark:/67531/metadc983992, Recital: November 4, 2014, ark:/67531/metadc948639, Recital: March 31, 2015, ark:/67531/metadc1075188

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