Mahn-Gap Song - Land of Calm & Beautiful Scenery (Korean Traditional Song) (1913) on HMV 102

The famous Korean Pansori singer, Mahn-Gap Song (Korean; 송만갑) sings "Jin-Guk-Myung-San (Korean; 진국명산, Chinese Letter; 鎭國名山, roughly translated as "Land of Calm & Beautiful Scenery) ", a Korean traditional Patriotic song which can be dated back to 17th century, for Nipponophone in 1913.

See the notes for the "Song of the Gourd" posting for the biographical information about the Singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXlqtJVyne8

This song is one example of a genre called "Dan-Ga" (literally, "Short songs"), which Pansori singers usually sing before starting the main Pansori, similar to "Prologue" in Western Operas, but not completely identical since it doesn't have any relation with the Pansori itself.

This is the side A of the "Gourd Song" posting. But after few months later I have posted that video, I accidentally dropped this record and it eventually broke in two pieces. I managed to stuck the pieces together again, but because of this, you can hear the cracking noice all the time in this video.

I also have another version of this piece, which Song made for Japan Columbia in 1930 (Song recorded this four times, and this is the earliest version), and I'll post that version soon.

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• Mahn-Gap
• Song
• Land
• of
• Calm
• Beautiful
• Scenery
• Korean
• Traditional
• Patriotic
• Pansori
• 1913
• 78rpm
• Phonograph
• Gramophone
• HMV
• 102
• 송만갑
• 단가
• 진국명산
• 판소리