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Jin Kyu Young’s Myung-Sang for Soprano or Tenor with three Percussionists

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Jin, Kyu Young(b.1948) spent his adolescent period in Tong Yeong where is his birth place. In 1967 he started his campus life at Seoul National University, and made a wide activities as composer during the late of 1970s and early of 1980s when Korean society was the dark period politically under the military regime. Especially from the year of 1981, as a member of the Third Generation Group he was against the cultural phenomenon towards contemporary European music and made activities for the future of Korean music. At that time the Third Generation Group announced a strong tie with third world, an emphasis of self-respect of Korean culture, and a free from the bondage of European culture. Jin wrote his works in various musical genre such as orchestral pieces, ensembles, solos, lieder, choral pieces, dance music, electronic music, film music etc. Through all his works he concerned communication with our society and made his musical language within the expression and elements of Korean music. “Myung-Sang” is Jin’s representative early work, which he composed in 1984 and 1985. And with it he was awarded the Korean National Composition Prize in 1990, and performed many places around world including Poland and Germany(ISCM World Music Days 1995). For this piece Jin used the melodic materials of Korean Buddhist chant, Beompae. So the voice part is most important in that piece and also reveals the nature of Korean traditional voice techniques. Although it is based on the melodic line of Beompae, its musical description is about a meditative world as the title “Myung-Sang” says, which is the act of remaining in a silent and calm state for a period of time, or so that we are more able to deal with the problems of everyday life. “Myung-Sang” consists of four part: preparation for meditation, induction of it, the internal sound of severe introspection, and retracing to sense of the real.

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