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Isang Yun's String Quartet No. 1: A performance guide

Lee, YooBin

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Title
Isang Yun's String Quartet No. 1: A performance guide
Author(s)
Lee, YooBin
Issue Date
2021
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Haken, Rudolf
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Haken, Rudolf
Committee Member(s)
  • Freivogel, Elizabeth
  • Mattax Moersch, Charlotte
  • Taylor, Stephen
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • Isang Yun
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • performance practice
  • string quartet
  • Korean music
  • Korean traditional music
Language
en
Abstract
The first time my quartet read through Isang Yun’s String Quartet No. 1 (1955), my two fellow Korean colleagues and I immediately recognized traditional Korean musical elements. Our colleague with a Western background on the other hand thought that surely Yun’s writing must have been influenced by Ravel. To further thicken the plot, in the preface of String Quartet No. 1 from Boosey & Hawkes, Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer describes Yun’s usage of dotted, Lombard, Siciliano rhythms and certain melodies as influences that came from Bartók. To me it was fascinating to discover that these same elements from Ravel and Bartók also were what made this quartet sound like familiar, nostalgic Korean folk tunes— specifically, Namdo music. Indeed, depending on each listener’s different cultural background, music can be received and experienced in widely varied ways; our quartet rehearsal was the perfect example of this. The goal of this study is to offer a performance guide from the lens of traditional Korean music, so that performers attempting to approach this piece might have the chance to do so from a viewpoint similar to the composer’s.
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Copyright 2021 YooBin Lee

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