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Title	Goddess of Jeju Island (The legend of Seolmundae Halmang, creator of Jeju)
Article no.	4040426
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Netherlands (nl)
Publisher *	De Haske Publications
Publisher's article no. *	DHP 1125215-010
Delivery publisher *	Hal Leonard Europe
Series title	Concert and Contest Collection
EAN (GTIN) *	9790035202661
ISMN *	979-0-0352-0266-1
Year of publication	2012
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Composer	De Haan, Jacob
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	D4 (German upper level)
Duration	9:10
Additional info/contents	This work is based on an old folk song from Jeju, an island off South Korea. The song tells of the legend of the island's formation by a volcano - the embodiment of a goddess. In addition to the folk song melody in various guises, Jacob de Haan's work repeatedly features a majestic motif in honour of the goddess and powerful passages symbolise the enormous natural phenomenon that created the island.
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Programme notes *: According to local legend, Seolmundae Halmang (halmang means “grandmother” in Jeju dialect) was the third daughter of the Great Jade Emperor. She was unimaginably gigantic. She was bored with her life in the Heaven Palace, she peeped out at the outside world and saw that Heaven and Earth were stuck together. Not finding this to her liking, she impulsively split Heaven and Earth, without considering the potential consequences. Furious at her impudence, the Great Jade Emperor kicked her out of the Heaven Palace. Seolmundae Halmang soon found that she enjoyed living on Earth. She scooped up some soil and threw it back down, creating Jeju Island. She was thinking the island was too flat, she made Halla Mountain by tossing seven more handfuls of soil on top. And the dirt that fell from her skirt formed the more than 360 oreums (“small volcanoes” in Jeju dialect) found scattered across the island. When she mistakenly kicked the bottom of Beom Island, she made a hole there; and when she urinated on the newly formed island of Jeju, a small park broke away, forming Woo island. Seolmundae Halmang gave birth to 500 sons. One day, while her sons were out hunting, she accidentally fell into a gigantic pot of porridge she was cooking. When her sons returned home, they gobbled up the porridge without realizing their mother had become part of it. Only the youngest son abstained from eating the porridge, sensing that something was wrong. when the sons found their mother’s bones at the bottom of the pot and realized what they had done, they wailed with such grief that they hardened into rocks, creating a geological formation now knows as Yeongsil Giam (“the strangely shaped rocks”) or the 500 Generals. Quelle/Source: Funtasy Trip Jeju-do is a province in South Korea around the subtropical volcanic island Jejudo south of the Korean Peninsula. Jejudo is the largest South Korean island and was also known as Quelpart. Its territory was administratively separated from the province of Jeollanam-do in 1946 and since then, together with some other islands like Udo and the Chuja Islands, it has formed the smallest province (since July 1, 2006 special autonomy province) of South Korea. Until the 12th century the Tamna Kingdom (Japanese: Tanimora) ruled over Jeju-do. It is assumed that until the year 700 Old Japanese was spoken in Jeju, which was gradually displaced by Korean immigrants from Silla and Baekje. Still today there are some loan words from Japanese. The Dutch sailor Hendrik Hamel (1630-1692) was in 1666 the first known European who reported about Korea. He stranded on Jeju-do in 1653 on a voyage from Japan to a Dutch colony in Indonesia with 35 companions who survived the shipwreck and named the island Quelpart. They were imprisoned on the Korean mainland thanks to the isolationist policy enforced by the Manchu and their origin from the "arch-enemy" Japan. Another Dutchman (Jan Weltevree), who had been held prisoner there for 26 years at that time, translated first. Hamel was only able to escape to Japan 13 years later with seven other sailors. He described his experiences in a travelogue that was read all over Europe. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia Information: De Haske Tags: Adventurers and pirates Ancient Cultures Mountains and valleys Spirits and supernatural powers Gods, Godheads and Saints Fairy tales, legends, stories Mysticism of the Far East Nature and beauties of the world Seafaring and ships Wind and waves Contemporary History and Historical Events

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