Korean Traditional music I Source Readings in Korean Music         저자Bang-Song Song   판형|쪽신국판 | 264쪽   발행일1980년 월 일   The idea of writing this book was originally formed at the time when I was a graduate student at the School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Later, I submitted a research proposal, “Source Readings in Korean Music,” to the Social Science Research Council in 1972, but the proposal was turned down not because of my research proposal in 1973, when I was a Ph.D. candidate at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where I met such colleagues as Gen’ichi Tsuge and Fu-yen Chen, all three of us being doctoral candidates as native Asians. In 1975 the joint research project received a small grant from the Japan Foundation, as an institutional research project of Wesleyan University. Three sample chapters from the Source Readings in Asian Music, each translated by one of three translators from his mother tongue to English, have been published in Asian Music (New York: Society for Asian Music, 1977).Vol. VII, No.2. Since then, however, the joint project has not been completed as a book as originally planned, because one of our colleagues had to give up his part because of a personal problem. It is my hope that, following this publication, the results of my colleagues’ research may be published in book format sooner or later. This study was undertaken as part of a joint research project during a two-year period at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. The author does not claim that this work is free from mistakes, and is fully aware that a number of errors may be found in the translations. The author will be very grateful for having them brought to his attention. The Romanization of Korean is based on the McCune-Reischauer system, and Korean personal names are spelled in the Korean fashion, namely, the family name first. The substance of the Introduction was first presented as a paper before the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on March 21, 1976 at Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada. This book was completed under a grant from the Japan Foundation, and I am grateful to the institution for the financial support. The author is indebted to Emeritus Professor Hye-ku Lee, the Department of Korean Music, Seoul National University, to Professor Peter H. Lee, the Department of East Asian Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and to Dr. Robert C. Provine Jr. Faculty of Music, University of Durham for reading part or all of the manuscript and for making a number of valuable corrections and helpful suggestions. My special thanks must also go to Dr. Mieczyslaw Kolinski, Faculty of Music, and Professor David B. Waterhouse, the Department of East Asian Studies, both of the University of Toronto, and to Professor David P. McAllester, the Department of Music and Anthropology, Wesleyan University, for their encouragement particularly in the early stage of this study. I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Professor Paul Pederson, Dean of the Faculty of Music, and to Professor Bruce Minorgan, Chairman of the Theory Department, Faculty of Music, both of Mcgill University, both of whom enabled me to go to Korea in 1976 to conduct further research. This book would not have been published without the assistance I received from Dr. Park Bong-shik, Secretary-General and particulary Mr. Paik Syeung-gil, Director of the Culture and Mass Communication Department, Korean National Commission for UNESCO, who edited, prepared the layout, and performed other services during the various stages of production.