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Dip Dive to the project
After the tutorial with Gareth, I was inspired to think more deeply about my topic. I started this project with the idea that I wanted to use elements of Korean traditional music as musical materials to inherit or develop the tradition. However, I had many questions such as ‘why do I want to develop this…
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Creative Sound Project Recording (1)
My theme of CSP assignment is using materials of Korea traditional instruments : Iron, stone, thread, soil, bamboo, gourd, leather, wood. Therefore I will record every material and today’s thing is bamboo. A bamboo has hard surface and unfilled inside, which are main characteristics. Since the features, bamboo was used as woodwinds, such as Piri…
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About the direction of traditional music development
Why is traditional music called “traditional”? No one calls Western classical music traditional, but the music of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, which developed around the same time, is called traditional. When I thought about what constitutes traditional music, I came to the conclusion that it’s only called traditional when the genre has stopped developing.…
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About Korean Contemporary Traditional Music (2)
Contemporary traditional music is currently referred to by various names such as Alternative Pop, Post Rock, Korean Shamanic, and Fusion Gugak, and is not clearly named. However, it is rooted in New Minyo, which refers to a new form of folk music, and shares the characteristics of mixing various traditional music forms such as Pansori…
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About Korean Contemporary Traditional Music (1)
In the previous post, we talked about Korean traditional music, divided into court music and folk music. In this post, we’re going to look at the modern Korean traditional music that was influenced by those traditional music in two genres: trot and contemporary traditional music. Trot has been a Korean popular song that originated in…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (3)
This is the last post in our series on traditional Korean folk music, and today we’ll cover Sanjo, Dance Music, Nongak, Muak, and Beompae. Sanjo is an instrumental solo piece that originated in the southern region of Korea and is most often played on the gayageum, geomungo, and daegeum, but is also sometimes played on…
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Plan for Creative Sound Project Element II Assignment (1)
The Creative sound project assignment in Element2 assignment is about free topic that asks you to create a song by referencing and utilizing various technical methods that you have learned in class. In this post, I’m going to flesh out my plan for the assignment. Initially, I thought about writing a literally ‘free’ piece using…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (2)
In our last post, we talked about Minyo, and in this post, we’ll talk about Japga, Yipchang, Pansori, and Byeongchang. These four types of folk music can be categorized into two groups based on their musical similarities, the first being Japga and Yipchang, and the second being Pansori and Byeongchang. Japga is a long-form song…
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About Korean Traditional Folk Music (1)
Korean traditional music can be divided into two main categories according to modern categorization, one of which is court music, which we covered in the last three posts, and the other is folk music, which was passed down from the common people to professional musicians. Unlike court music, which had a specific role for each…
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About court music of the Joseon Dynasty(3)
In this article, we’ll take a look at the last of the three types of court music from the Joseon Dynasty: Tang-ak, A-ak, and Hyang-ak. Hyang-ak was named after the introduction of Tang-ak in the Three Kingdoms period to distinguish between foreign music and indigenous music, so it is indigenous Korean music that has existed…