Suite No.3 for Wind Orchestra
(from the Land of the Morning Calm)
David William Rackley /arr. - DR Productions
Suite No.3 for Wind Orchestra
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aSuite No. 3a (originally titled aKorean Folksong Suite) was
composed as a one-movement fantasy for the United States Air Force Band of
the Pacific in 1985. I selected ten
songs I felt could best be arranged for a Western music ensemble. The piece was successfully premiered in
Seoul, Korea in 1986 to enthusiastic reception. It turns out however, the Korean audience
was simply being polite since most of the folk songs, arranged in Western
style was unrecognizable by most of the people. Only aMiryang Ariranga and the well
know aAriranga (the unofficial anthem of Korea) seemed to elicit recognition. The aKorean Folksong Suitea sat on the
shelf until 2017 when I decided to develop the one movement work into seven
separate movements. The music retains
the melodic unadorned content of the original Korean folk songs (at least to
Western ears) while employing contemporary harmonic techniques designed to
bring Eastern and Western musics together.
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