The Four Seasons of Korea (Viola and Piano) Piano - Digital Sheet Music

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“The Four Seasons of Korea” for Viola and Piano, Op. 340A

As the title suggests, this is a four-movement piece that expresses the four seasons of Korea: spring, summer, fall, and winter. It expresses the unique emotions of each season, with spring expressing the blooming of flowers, a gentle breeze, and the scent of spring. In the bright atmosphere of the season where all things come to life, the ascending progression of notes and lively themes are the main focus. The splendid techniques such as the Bariolage technique, which quickly alternates two strings like twisting different colored threads, and broken chords are used to express the atmosphere of spring. Summer is in the form of A-B-A’, with the A section expressing thunder and lightning, and the B section expressing the calm after the storm using the oriental pentatonic scale and whole notes in a simple song line. A notable point is that, when comparing the A section to the A’ section, the direction of note progression and the direction of chord progression are all reversed. For fall, I quoted my own “Someday of Late Fall” Op. 162, composed in 2010, in which the loneliness of fall is expressed with a lyrical melody. For winter, I tried to describe the scene of snow falling from the sky, or “coming down,” with the theme of descending major thirds and perfect fifths expressed in harmony with traditional Korean rhythms such as “Gutgeori” and “Jajinmori”. I also cited the Korean folk song “Nilliriya” because it has the characteristic of “coming down” in which the melody progresses downward. Overall, it takes a symmetrical form of A-B-A centered around “Nilliriya.”.