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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. [1]
The Korea Music Content Association (KMCA) was established in 2008, with the purpose of promoting the professional interests of its members, as well as being involved in anti-piracy. It introduced the first official South Korean music charts in 2010, [ 1 ] and implemented record certifications in April 2018—only releases subsequent to January ...
The music of South Korea has evolved over the course of the decades since the end of the Korean War, and has its roots in the music of the Korean people, who have inhabited the Korean peninsula for over a millennium. Contemporary South Korean music can be divided into three different main categories: Traditional Korean folk music, popular music ...
To date, Twice have earned twelve number-one albums in South Korea, nine number-one albums on Japan's Oricon Albums Chart, six number-one albums on the Billboard Japan Hot Albums, a number-one album in the United States and six number-one albums on Billboard's World Albums. The group sold over 7.2 million albums, as of 2021.
"Yurisangja" (유리상자) means "glass box." The reason they chose it was derived from their hope – the one of putting in it the most precious things of the world. Because a glass box is transparent, as far as something valuable is put in that box, it can be seen, undistorted, from the outside.
The song topped various online charts in South Korea and became an instant viral hit. [12] In February 2011, BigBang returned to the Korean music scene after two years of hiatus with the release of their fourth Korean extended play, Tonight, which became their first number-one album on the Gaon Album Chart, which was established one year prior ...
[2] The word "arirang" itself is nonsensical and does not have a precise meaning in Korean. [25] While the other lyrics vary from version to version, the themes of sorrow, separation, reunion, and love appear in most versions. [4] [26] The table below includes the lyrics of "Standard Arirang" from Seoul. The first two lines are the refrain.