Variations on a Korean Folk Song
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Variations on a Korean Folk Song
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Variations on a Korean Folk Song is a major musical piece written for concert band by John Barnes Chance in 1965. As the name implies, Variations consists of a set of variations on the Korean folk song "Arirang", which the composer heard while in South Korea with the U.S. Army in the late 1950s. In 1966 the piece was awarded the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award. The theme is based upon a concert A♭ major pentatonic scale. At the beginning of the composition, the first part of the
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Concert band music
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variations_on_a_Korean_Folk_Song
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2023-07-03T21:24:59Z
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