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Traditional music ( 국악; gugak; lit. national music [1]) produced by Korea includes court music, folk music, poetic songs, and religious music used in shamanistic and Buddhist traditions. [2] Modern music includes K-pop ( 케이팝; keipap ), the popular music of South Korea.
t. e. The music of South Korea has evolved over the course of the decades since the end of the Korean War, and has its roots in the music of the Korean people, who have inhabited the Korean peninsula for over a millennium. Contemporary South Korean music can be divided into three different main categories: Traditional Korean folk music, popular ...
The National Gugak Center ( Korean : 국립국악원 ), located in Seoul, South Korea, is the primary institution of learning for Korean traditional music ( gugak ), including both court music and folk music. [1] It was founded in 1951 through a merger of Korean musical organizations. It is dedicated to "preserving and promoting traditional ...
gayageum. McCune–Reischauer. kayagŭm. Demonstration of the sound of gayageum by a non-professional player. The gayageum or kayagum ( Korean : 가야금 ; Hanja : 伽倻琴) is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings.
Gayageum. Gayageum (hangul: 가야금; hanja: 伽 倻 琴) – A long zither with 12 strings; modern versions may have 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, or 25 strings. Geomungo (hangul: 거문고) – A fretted bass zither with six to eleven silk strings that is plucked with a bamboo stick and played with a weight made out of cloth. Cheolhyeongeum ...
jeongak. McCune–Reischauer. chŏngak. Jeongak (lit. "proper music") is a classical genre of Korean traditional music, in contrast with minsogak or Korean traditional folk music. [1] The genre has traditionally been associated with the nobility and upper classes. The best known pieces of jeongak are Sujecheon and the suite entitled Yeongsan ...
Pages in category "Korean traditional music" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Traditional Korean rhythm; V. Variations on a Korean ...
Pungmul ( Korean : 풍물; Hanja : 風物; IPA: [pʰuːŋmul]) is a Korean folk music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. Most performances are outside, with dozens of players all in constant motion. Pungmul is rooted in the dure (collective labor) farming culture. It was originally played as part of farm work, on rural ...