Traditional Musics > Traditional Korean Musics

We will spend two classes on traditional Korean musics.

Read the following chapters from Kwon 2012:

In advance of the first:

2. “The Court As Cultural Conduit"
3. “The Politics of Preservation and Revival in Instrumental Music”

In advance of the second:

4. “The Singing Voice”

See also the screencast of figures 4.5 and 4.6 (Kwon 2012:100-101), and Jin Hi Kim's discussion of sigimse.

As you read

Listen to the associated tracks from Audio Examples of Traditional Musics.zip

Discuss the Cultural Dimensions of Traditional Korean Musics

Watch related audiovisual examples

and

Contribute notes on audio examples and key terms relating to Korean musics in the Box Note Traditional Musics of East Asia

The class meetings will be taken up by presentations on instruments, techniques, stylistic features and aesthetic principles, and practice listening to identify instruments and genres.