Music of Korea

• dKorea's folk music represents the soul and sound of traditional Korean villages with an

  eclectic array of music forms including numerous folk songs, various forms of instrumental

  pieces, pansori, and shaman ritual music.
• Chong-ak means literally "right (or correct) music", and its tradition includes both

  instrumental and vocal music, which were cultivated mainly by the upper-class literati of

  the Joseon society. In this category, three important terms are a-ak, tang-ak, and hyang-ak
• Vocal Music

  • refers to music from the Korean

  peninsula ranging from prehistoric

  times to the division of Korea into

  South and North in 1945.

  . it includes court music, folk music,

  poetic songs, and religious music

  used in shamanistic and Buddhist

  traditions.

  . Koreans sang songs when they

  could not hold their sadness in.
• Instrumental Music

  · traditional music represents a

  world of captivating rhythms and

  melodies whose sounds draw

  listeners in like a breath.

  · traditional Korean instruments

  can be broadly divided into three

  groups: string, wind, and

  percussion instruments.
• Musical Elements used in Korean Music

  . Korean music is mostly monophonic, but ornamentation is very important in the

  structure of the music, with the same melodic line the ornamental tones may use,

  skip or may differ

  · Korean music is in triple time or groups of three beats, where it is given an emphasis

  must be articulated or accented, duple time is observed in folk music of Korea

  . Basically, it has the same structure with the Chinese pentatonic scale. It varies in

  modes of ornamentation and by different pitch and instrumentation
• identify

  A) kayagum

  B) hyang bipa

  C) haegum

  D) janggu

  E) puk

  F) bak