Korean Dances for Orchestra

Korean Dances for Orchestra is a set of 8 short compositions that are based on themes and motifs drawn from Korean folk songs. Like the traditional music of its neighbors China and Japan, Korea's folk music generally utilizes pentatonic scales and tends to favor minor tonalities and triple or compound meters. But although the source tunes are mostly pentatonic, these dances make no attempt to limit themselves to pentatonic scales. Each dance in the collection is also available individually