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VARIATIONS ON A KOREAN FOLK SONG
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THIS IS BASED UPON A FOLK TUNE, 'ARRIANG', THAT THE COMPOSER, JOHN BARNES CHANCE, LEARNED WHILE SERVING IN KOREA AS A MEMBER OF THE 8TH U.S. ARMY BAND. (1966 OSTWALD AWARD). PERFORMED MY 2ND YR. AT THE NATIONAL MUSIC CAMP BY H.S. SYMPHONIC BAND #1.
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Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi
Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.
Song Info
Genre
World • Traditional Asian
Charts
#134 in subgenre Peak #1
Charts
Peak #15
Author
John Barnes Chance - 1965
Rights
public domain
Uploaded
November 05, 2009
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MP3 11.1 MB • 224 kbps • 6:57
Story behind the song
Variations on a Korean Folk Song is based upon a folk tune that the composer learned while serving the U.S. Army in Seoul, Korea. The tune is known as "Arrirang". In autumn 1966, for the Journal of Band Research, Chance said: I became acquainted with the folk song while serving in Seoul, Korea, as a member of the Eighth U.S. Army Band in 1958-59. Variations on a Korean Folk Song is arguably John Barnes Chance's best known composition for band, and is a work which won the ABA Ostwald Award in 1966. The pentatonic theme is heard at the outset and is contrasted with six variations: the first is scherzo-like, the second was surely inspired by the French composer Erik Satie, the third is march-like, the fourth is a chorale; variation five is a fugue, starting with the percussion section, and the sixth and final variation combines the fugue theme with the folk song heard in long note values in the brass. John Barnes Chance (b Beaumont, TX, 20 Nov 1932; d Lexington, KY, 16 Aug 1972). American composer. He began studying composition at the age of 15, and received the BM and MM degrees from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was a pupil of Clifton Williams, Kent Kennan and Paul Pisk; he won the Carl Owens Award for student composition in 1956 and 1957. He was a timpanist with the Austin SO and an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth US Army Bands before serving as composer-in-residence for the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project, Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1966 he joined the music department at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until his death. His most popular compositions include Variations on a Korean Folk Song (which won the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award in 1966), Incantation and Dance, Elegy, Blue Lake Overture, Introduction and Capriccio and the Symphony no.2, finished just before his death. Chance's works are tonal and unabashedly romantic, demonstrating rhythmic inventiveness and a secure command of instrumentation.
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ALEXIS PATRICK
Apr 13, 2010
Very enchanting composition, and you have played it with much feeling. Do you ever go on tour?
Morten Gjermundsen
Feb 10, 2010
Never heard this one before,but it sounds really good. Well done!