Korean Art Song Learning Center

Tag: 가곡

  • IPA- 님이 오시는지 (Is My Beloved Coming?)

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    1st Verse

    In the moonlight from afar,
    is my beloved coming

    The wind blowing in the reed beds
    are these your footsteps?

    Might the sound of flowing water
    be my beloved’s song?

    My lonely heart wandering endlessly

    As dawn draws near, only the wind rises

    2nd Verse

    Passing the field
    where lilies are dreaming

    In the moonlight from afar,
    is my beloved coming?

    The sound of a grass-dyed skirt
    dragging as it comes

    Parting the flower’s scent,
    is my beloved coming?

    My heart trembles and wanders endlessly

    As dawn draws near, the wind fills the air

    The wind fills the air

  • IPA- 고풍의상 (Traditional Attire)

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    As if flying toward the sky

    Stretched long along the eaves beam’s edge,
    the wind chime resounds


    Embracing an armful of light pink flowers


    Half-moon, hidden within the finely hung
    beaded curtain at the eaves’ edge

    The deepening spring night faintly,
    sounding like a cuckoo

    How lovely, how graceful, truly beautiful indeed

    The white collar of the fine Jeogori
    shines brightly

    The twelve-panel long skirt ripples gently

    You are a butterfly,
    telling the ancient classics of some distant land

    Dance softly, like a butterfly

    With lowered brows

    On this night, I live in the old times
    closing eyes, choose the strings of the Geomungo

    like a slender willow, swaying to the melody

    I shall wave my white hands

  • IPA- 강건너 봄이 오듯 (As spring comes across the river)

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    1st Verse

    When will the thin ice
    on the river in front melt?


    The boat, loaded with cargo,
    has come that far through the dawn fog


    Embracing an armful of light pink flowers


    The hazy light across the water,
    the hazy light coming down
    over the riverside village

    When will the thin ice
    on the river in front melt?

    The boat, loaded with cargo,
    has come that far through the dawn fog

    2nd Verse

    Once again today,
    shall drift like a raft on the river

    Birdsong and breeze,
    fluttering as water flows

    Releasing my spring
    in the dark valley of my heart

    Radiant silent longing, Silent longing
    flows silently

    Once again today,
    shall drift like a raft on the river

    Birdsong and breeze, fluttering as water flows

    Fluttering as water flows