Composed in 1997 for the Donga International Music Competition, this passacaglia is comprised of a theme, 17 variations and a closing section (recurrenece of theme). The essential factor of the theme is ‘horizontal and vertical augmentation of interval’s, which is represented around the central pitch D: a chromatic motion from d’ to a♭, a tritone distant, with repetition of d’/d’‘ (a vertical extension of intervals), is followed by a downward motion from a♭ to b’‘ enlarging the interval gradually (a horizontal extension of intervals between the adjacent tones).
(Jun, Sang-Jick (Composer, Lecturer at the Seoul National University) / Translated by Seo, Jeong-Eun (Lecturer at the Seoul National University)
