거문고와 관현악을 위한 대화 = Dialogue for Komungo & Korean tradit. Orchestra

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This orchestral piece is a concerto for a Komungo and a Korean tradtional orchestra based on a Komungo solo "CHUNGUB-HUSA" witten in 1982.
Komungo(or especially in writing, hyongum) is a long half-tube ziter of parlownia wood with a back-piece of chestnut. It has six strings of twisted silk fiber of which the first, fifth, and sixth are supported on movable bridges and second, third, and fourth pass over a series of sixteen progressively smaller wooden frets, the first fret acting as a bridge. The strings are plucked with a bamboo rod(Sultae).
The melody is played almost entirely on Ⅱ and Ⅲ. The standard plucking tecnique for these two strings is to strike from above with the rod.
The sound of the Konungo is noble and rich, each string having a distintive timbre of its own. The contrast between the two melody string is particularly marked due to the much greater thickness of Ⅲ.
Komungo has long been the most honored of Korean instruments, enjoying a prestige among the scholarly class analogous to the position of the chin in china.
This orchestral piece has a drone like an Indian music have C (Yimchong) is a long sustained tone acting as a drone.
This music based on Kumyon mode which is a deep and sad mode in Korean music.
Keymyon mode is widespreaded in southern part of Korean peninsula and a favourite mode for Challa provincial persons.
This music is a dialogue for komungo which sing a deep melody with a orchestra which have a various tone colour.
We can enjoy not enly a relaxation in slow tempo but a tension in rapid "whimori changdan" rhythm.