dc.contributor	Williams, Susan
dc.contributor	Yates, Eric
dc.contributor	Adams, Christy
dc.contributor	Kim, Mina
dc.contributor.advisor	Zaheri, Amir
dc.contributor.advisor	Minear, Andrew
dc.contributor.author	Lee, Dong-Kyu
dc.contributor.other	University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-07T14:36:52Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-07T14:36:52Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation	en_US
dc.description.abstract	South Korea has seventy professional choirs and is one of the leading choral musiccommunities in Asia and around the world. Korean choral compositions are frequently performed by foreign choirs. This manuscript includes an overview of various types of Korean choral music and notable Korean composers for non-native conductors. It begins with chronology of Korean choral m a brief usic and highlights eleven popular contemporary Korean composers and their music. The works detailed in this manuscript are each included in a new professionally recorded album entitled The Sound of Korea (21st Century Korean Choral Music) featuring the Seoul Vocal Artists. They are discussed in the order in which they are recorded on the album, which is organized according to the following themes: Poetry Settings, Church Anthems, Elements of Jazz, and Elements of Traditional Korean Music. Korean composers often ensure that the meaning of texts is intricately connected to their musical settings. The Korean poetry settings included on this album typify how music and poetry both have repetitions for emphasis, as well as similarities in structures, rhythms, dynamics, and tempo. Church anthems as a genre began with the arrival of Western missionaries in the 1880’s. Today they remain an important genre of Korean choral music and often share similar characteristics, including a prelude, an interlude, and frequent use of a main melody. Many Korean choral composers studied at music institutions known for their Jazz studies, which inspired those composers to infuse jazz harmonies and scat singing in their compositions. Finally, many composers include elements of traditional Korean folk music in their contemporary works. Composers use various elements like folk song melodies, traditional rhythms, singing styles, and modes. By providing a brief analysis of these eleven contemporary Korean choral compositions, this manuscript might help non-Korean conductors recognize various styles of Korean choral music and assist them in their preparations for performing these and other Korean choral works.	en_US
dc.format.extent	51 p.
dc.format.medium	electronic
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.other	u0015_0000001_0003790
dc.identifier.other	Lee_alatus_0004D_14427
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/7869
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.haspart	Supplementary materials include a JPEG file of the front and back cover of the CD "The Sound of Korea: 21st Century Korean Choral Music," a PDF file containing the CD liner notes, and a PDF certificate of completion of the Survey of Earned Doctorates awarded to the author.
dc.relation.hasversion	born digital
dc.relation.ispartof	The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartof	The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rights	All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.	en_US
dc.subject	Music
dc.title	The sound of Korea: twenty first century Korean choral music	en_US
dc.type	thesis
dc.type	text
etdms.degree.department	University of Alabama. School of Music
etdms.degree.discipline	Music
etdms.degree.grantor	The University of Alabama
etdms.degree.level	doctoral
etdms.degree.name	D.M.A.

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