This book is the first complete guide to Korea's music and musical instruments available in English. Musician and scholar Keith Howard outlines the thousand-year history of music on the Korean peninsula, describes the culture's various string, wind, and percussive instruments, and catalogs the instruments currently in use or preserved in Korea.
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Keith Howard is Chairman of Music and Lecturer in Korean Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
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This review is from: Korean Musical Instruments (Images of Asia) (Hardcover)
I found this book to be the perfect introduction to the world of Korean instruments, with simple and yet informative descriptions of various instruments. It was exceptionally interesting, and yet was not too long, thus keeping the reader's attention. I was especially happy when the book took into account instrumental developments in North Korea, thus providing a wider picture of Korea's musical development. A must for world music students and Koreanologists alike!!!
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This review is from: Korean Musical Instruments (Images of Asia) (Hardcover)
Great information is packed into this book-- but it's only got 67 pages of text, including many photographs. It's worth getting as a reference, but will probably just make you wish Howard had kept going for another 100 pages.
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THE KOREAN PENINSULA juts out from the mainland of East Asia between the latitudes 43 and 33 north and longitudes 124 and 134 east. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
folk bands, court music, finger holes, royal ancestors, ritual music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korea, North Korea, Unified Shilla, Kim Kisu, Kim Kwangju New!
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THE KOREAN PENINSULA juts out from the mainland of East Asia between the latitudes 43 and 33 north and longitudes 124 and 134 east. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
folk bands, court music, finger holes, royal ancestors, ritual music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Korea, North Korea, Unified Shilla, Kim Kisu, Kim Kwangju New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- South Korea (Economically Developing Countries) by Sung-Hoon Jung in Back Matter
- The Ming Tombs (Images of Asia) by Ann Paludan in Front Matter
- The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments: Vol.1:A-F by Stanley Sadie in Back Matter
- Chinese Painting (Images of Asia) by T. C. Lai in Front Matter
- The Birds of Java and Bali (Images of Asia) by Derek Holmes in Front Matter
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- Temples of the Empress of Heaven (Images of Asia) by Joseph Bosco in Front Matter
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