Korean music includes both the folk and classical music styles of the Korean people. Itz da bomb! See Music of South Korea and Music of North Korea for contemporary Korean music. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... The first evidence of Korean music is ancient, and it has been well-documented by surviving written materials since the 15th century. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The first evidence of Korean music is ancient, and it has been well-documented by surviving written materials since the 15th century and was brought to heights of excellence during the Yi kings of the Joseon Dynasty. ... The first evidence of Korean music is ancient, and it has been well-documented by surviving written materials since the 15th century. ...

Folk Music

Korean folk music is varied and complex, but all forms maintain a set of rhythms and a loosely defined set of melodic modes. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...

Pansori

Pansori is long vocal and percussive music played by one singer and one drummer. The lyrics tell one of five different stories, but is individualized by each performer, often with updated jokes and audience participation. One of the most famous p'ansori singers is Pak Tongjin. Pansori is a genre of Korean music. ... Pak Tongjin was the South Korean minister of foreign affairs in the 1970s. ...

Nongak

Nongak is a rural form of percussion music, typically played by twenty to thirty performers. A smaller band version of nongak became very popular in Korea in the late 1970s, and some bands, like Samul Nori, even found some international success. Pungmul, or nong-ak, is a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Samul Nori is traditional percussion music of Korea. ...

Sanjo

Sanjo is entirely instrumental that shifts rhythms and melodic modes during the song. Instruments include the changgo drum set against a melodic instrument, such as the gayageum or ajaeng. Famous practitioners include Kim Chukp'a, Yi Saenggang and Hwang Byungki. Sanjo is a style of traditional Korean music, involving an instrumental solo accompanied by drumming on the janggu. ... Janggu is the most widely used percussion instrument in most kinds of Korean traditional music. ... A gayageum is a traditional Korean zitherlike musical instrument with 12 strings. ... The ajaeng is a Korean string instrument. ... Yi Saenggang is a Korean musician and a famous practitioner of daegeum sanjo, an instrumental style of Korean music played on the daegeum. ... Hwang Byungki is a Hawaiian singer and one of the foremost scholars on Korean sanjo, or traditional music. ...

Classical music

The fine range of Korean symphonic orchestras have been bolstered by notable performers, and soloists, as well as highly skilled orchestra directors.

Internationally known Korean composers of classical music include such notables as: Lee Soo-in, who specializes in music for children, and his famous ""Song of My Homeland".

Korean classical music can be divided into at least four types: courtly, aristocratic, scholarly, and religious.

Court music

Modern orchestral Korean court music began its development with the beginning of the Choson Dynasty in 1392. It is now rare, except for government sponsored organizations like the National Center for the Korean Traditional Performing Arts.hi The first evidence of Korean music is ancient, and it has been well-documented by surviving written materials since the 15th century. ... Events December 16 - Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, ending the nanboku-cho period of competing imperial courts James of Jülich is boiled alive for pretending to be a bishop and ordaining his own priests Korean founder of the Joseon Dynasty General...

There are three types of court music.

One is called aak, and is an imported form of Chinese ritual music, and another is a pure Korean form called hyangak; the last is a combination of Chinese and Korean influences, and is called tangak.

Aak

Aak was brought to Korea in 1116, and very popular for a time before dying out. It was revived in 1430, based on a reconstruction of older melodies. The music is now highly specialized, and uses just two different surviving melodies, and is played only at certain very rare concerts, such as the Sacrifice to Confucius in Seoul. AAK is a three letter abbreviation (TLA) for All About Kids Categories: TLAs ... Events Baldwin I of Jerusalem undertakes an invasion of Egypt The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China Construction starts on the Chennkesava temple The Aztecs leave Aztlán searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán and later Mexico City Births Deaths... // Events May 23 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne The Ottoman Empire captures Thessalonica from the Venetians First use of optical methods in the creation of Art A map of Europe in 1430. ... Seoul (Sŏul[1] 서울)   is the capital and largest city of South Korea (Republic of Korea). ...

Dangak

Modern dangak, like aak, is rarely practiced. Only two short pieces are known; they are Springtime in Luoyang and Pacing the Void. Dangak (syllables: dang-ak) is a genre of traditional Korean court music. ...

Hyangak

By far the most extant form of Korean court music today, hyangak includes a sort of oboe called a piri and various kinds of stringed instruments. Hyangak are traditional folk dances of Korea, performed in front of audiences—as opposed to the square dance more familiar to Westerners, which is primarily for the particpants enjoyment. ... The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... The piri (피리) is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. ... A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...

Aristocratic chamber music

Originally designed for upper-class rulers, to be enjoyed informally, chongak is often entirely instrumental, usually an ensemble playing one of nine suites that are collectively called Yongsan hoesang. Vocals are mainly sung in a style called kagok, which is for mixed male and female singers and is accompanied by a variety of instruments. Chongak is category of Korean music which is considered classical. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Traditional music of Korea

Korean music is based on Buddhist and native shamanistic beliefs. Buddhist and shamanistic dancing, and shamanistic drum music, are extant, as is a melodic, jazzy dance music called sinawi. Traditional Korean instruments can be broadly divided into three groups: string, wind and percussion instruments. The 12-string zither (gayageum) and geomungo (six-string plucked zither) are part of the string fold instruments. The haegum (two-string vertical fiddle) and the seven-string zither is part of the string T'ang. String court include seven-string zither and the 25-string zither. The daegeum (large transverse flute), small flute, piri (cylindrical oboe) and grass flute are all called wind folk. Wind T'ang includes the Chinese oboe, vertical flute and hojok or taepyongso (conical oboe). The saenghwang (mouth organ), panpipes, hun (globular flute), flute with mouthpiece, danso (small-notch vertical flute), and flute are wind court instruments. Percussion folk instruments include large gong, small gong, folk drum, sound drum and folk hourglass drum. The clapper and the janggu (hourglass drum) are the percussion T'ang instruments. Percussion court includes the bronze bells, pyeongyeong (stone chimes), square wooden box with mallet and tiger-shaped wooden instrument. The grounds of Koreas Buryeongsa Temple. ... There are a number of shamanistic practices that are developed in Korea, where the role of a shaman is most frequently taken by women. ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... Dance music is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations and shows and raves. ... Sinawi, sometimes spelled Shinawi, is a traditional form of Korean music. ... A gayageum is a traditional Korean zitherlike musical instrument with 12 strings. ... Geomungo is a traditional stringed musical instrument invented in Korea around 550 by famous musician Wang San-ak. ... The haegeum (hangul: 해금; hanja: 奚琴) is a traditional Korean string instrument, resembling a fiddle. ... The daegeum (also spelled taegum or taegŭm) is a large bamboo transverse flute used in traditional Korean music. ... The piri (피리) is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. ... The hojok, also known as the taepyongso (tae-pyong-so, big peace wind instrument), is a Korean wind instrument that falls into the oboe family. ... The hojok, also known as the taepyongso (tae-pyong-so, big peace wind instrument), is a Korean wind instrument that falls into the oboe family. ... The saenghwang (hanja: 笙簧) is a Korean wind instrument. ... The hun (hangul: 훈; hanja: 塤) is a Korean ocarina made of baked clay or ceramic. ... The danso (단소, also spelled tanso) is a Korean vertical end-blown flute used in Korean folk music. ... Janggu is the most widely used percussion instrument in most kinds of Korean traditional music. ...

Western Christian imported music

Main article: Korean Contemporary Christian music

With the importation of Christianity, the evangelical use of music for prosletizying has led to many choirs, both within and without churches, and the importation of many traditional American styles of Christian folksongs sung in Korean. Korean Contemporary Christian music (or Korean CCM) refers to Contemporary Christian music written or played in South Korea. ...

Modern world music

Korean traditional instruments have been integrated into western percussion, and are beginning a new wave of Korean world music since 1998. Traditional instruments are amplified, and sampled, with traditional songs rescored for new age audiences. World music is, most generally, all the music in the world [1]. More specifically, the term is currently used to classify the many genres of non-western music which were previously described as folk music or ethnic music. Succinctly, it can be described as local music from out there [2... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...

References

• Provine, Rob, Okon Hwang, and Andy Kershaw (2000). "Our Life Is Precisely a Song". In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp 160-169. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0.

See also

• Music of South Korea
• Music of North Korea
• Traditional Korean musical instruments
• List of Korea-related topics
• Culture of Korea
• Cuisine of Korea
• Traditional Korean thought
• List of Korean musicians
• The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts

External links

• Kee Man Chang - Korean Art and Folk Songs Information and Downloadable MP3 Music
• A Study of Musical Instruments in Korean Traditional Music (The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Korea, 1998]
• http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/korea_slides/dance_and_music/7-1.htm
• Culture & Arts in Korea: Trends in Music
• Overview of Traditional Korean Music