Harmonia

Isang Yun

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Subtitle: For 16 Winds, Harp and Percussion

General Info

Year: 1974
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Bote & Bock, through Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts Unknown | Score Only (print) - $24.34

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Harp (or Piano)
Timpani
Percussion (1-2 players)

(percussion detail desired)

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The title is based on the ancient sense of the word harmony, as an ordered arrangement or agreement, whereby the differences or opposites of the parts of a whole are brought into harmony by a superordinate regularity. In ancient music, theory harmony means concretely the correct pitch in a fixed-pitch order and symbolically the correspondence with the universe to which the relations through the mathematical musical (number) orders of the so-called, “harmony of the spheres”.

With the title, Yun also alludes to the tradition of Harmoniemusik and its many wind serenades.

Harmonia is dedicated to its conductor and Yun’s friend, Rolf Agop.

- Program Note from WASBE

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra (Stefan Asbury, conductor) - 2003
Audio CD: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Stefan Asbury, conductor)

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Herford Siegerland-Orchester (Rolf Agop, conductor) – 22 January 1975 – *Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by This Composer

Festlicher Tanz (1988)
Flute Quartet (1986)
Harmonia (1974)
Mugung-Dong (1986)
Wind Octet (1993)
Wind Quintet (1991)

Resources

"HARMONIA for 16 Winds, Harp and Percussion by Isang Yun (South Korea, 1917 – 1995)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 11 January 2021). Accessed 14 January 2023
Yun, I. [1975]. Harmonia : für Blasinstrumente, Harfe und Schlagzeug, 1974. [score]. Bote & Bock: Berlin, Germany.