It's from 1981 (with the copies of scores from the early 1900s being discovered a year later, according to that official description), not exactly what I'd call "preserved" but one can't be too picky with these as very, very few actual recordings got made prior to the artists' attempts at modernising the art form (like how the oldest Peony Pavillion recording we have comes from a guy who was trying to revolutionize the perfomance and that's the way he performed it in Japan and the US) and subsequent destruction of music troupes in most of East Asia.
"...the light of Goryoh hovers..."
As Korean, I can say her "Goryeo" sounds good enough considering that she is English speaker. Goryeo is 고려 in Korean. ㅕ(Yeo) and its base ㅓ(Eo) are not in English pronunciation system, but they have kind of close pronunciation with ㅛ(Yo) and ㅗ(O).It's from 1981 (with the copies of scores from the early 1900s being discovered a year later, according to that official description), not exactly what I'd call "preserved" but one can't be too picky with these as very, very few actual recordings got made prior to the artists' attempts at modernising the art form (like how the oldest Peony Pavillion recording we have comes from a guy who was trying to revolutionize the perfomance and that's the way he performed it in Japan and the US) and subsequent destruction of music troupes in most of East Asia.
"...the light of Goryoh hovers..."
And once again, the team couldn't even provide a pronunciation guide for the romanisation. Goryeo is read as [ko̞ɾjʌ̹], that is Co-rya with co as in "core" and rya not occuring in English, perhaps substituting for Cor-yu with Cor of "core" and yu being as in "yup". And yeah, since the bell has nothing to do with Goryeo itself, I think we have a fairly good idea who's joining the roster in March.
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We had a historian (me, in this particular case) on the sessions giving pronunciation or contextual coaching, and for many non-English words we went over the pronunciation beforehand. I can read Hangul and understand the distinction betweenㅕand ㅛ (I taught Southeast Asian Studies at Sogang University many years ago and had to use Hangul to get around), but I still relied upon pronunciation guides myself before walking GC through it.
I completely understand. Knowing the right pronunciation and making yourself and other person to pronounce it right are very different Tasks.
That makes sense. I can imagin the alter-reality that you choosed one of some legends or propagandas of the Bell itself, but the poem of Hwang Jini is still the best.
The other way round it makes more sense: samba and South American music in general took a lot from Africa. West Africa mostly, but not only that.
So far it looks like it includes part of the Bugandan anthem.
The Zulu theme back in Civ4 was a bit special. I played Civ4 when I was a rather young child and their theme freaked me out, it was weird for my children ears. Now I understand they based it on traditional music and instruments from the Zulu, but back when I was younger it certainly left a lasting sense of unease and terror in my childhood.
North America also has lots of influence from African music in general, especially the Southern United States
I think there's some extra tracks for sure, honestly I'd be surprised if there weren't, there's not nearly enough pieces to fill in the space otherwise. I also think there may be a war declaration sting used when a war is declared.
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