Blog Directory ID: 2280
Blog URL: http://antiquealive.blogspot.com
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Blog Description: Korean traditional music station where people can listen to unique and diverse Korean traditional music and an online gallery presenting Korean arts and crafts in various art forms and .
Blog Category: Music Blogs
Blog Owner: Steve Lee
Blog Added: April 17, 2008 09:19:12 AM
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Poongjuk - Korean Tea Ceremony Music
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This album features original solo pieces composed for tea ceremony played with various Korean traditional musical instruments such as Daegeum (large bamboo transverse flute), Danso (notched vertical bamboo flute), Tungso (notched end-blown vertical bamboo flue), Piri (Bamboo Oboe) and Sogeum (small bamboo transverse flute).
Dance - Trio and Quartet for Gayageum, Haegeum and Piri
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This album features original trio and quartet pieces composed by Park Bum-Hoon for representative Korean traditional musical instruments such as Gayageum (Korean traditional zither), Haegeum (Korean traditional two-stringed vertical fiddle) and Piri (Korean Bamboo Oboe).
Yeo-Chang Gagok by Yi Jun-Ah
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This album leads to the wonderful world of Gagok, a traditional Korean vocal music. Gagok is a representative vocal genre appreciated by the scholars of the Joseon period (1392-1910). It uses Sijo, traditional Korean poetry with fixed forms, for its texts. Accompaniments and interludes are played by a small ensemble of traditional Korean musical instruments. Performed since around 16th century, Gagok has been passed on until today, undergoing many changes and generating variations.
Gagok has two kinds of modes, the Gyemyeon mode (Gyemyeonjo) and the U mode (Ujo). The former and latter are each compared to the major and minor scale respectively. In addition to the two modes, Ban-U-Ban-Gye, which begins in the U mode but modulates to the Gyemyeon mode, is used. Also, there are 26 pieces for men and 15 for women.
The texts of the male songs (Nam-Chang) are generally masculine and animated. Also, unlike the female songs, male songs are sung only in natural voice and not in falsetto. The texts of the female songs (Yeo-Chang) are usually feminine and sad. Unlike male songs, the female songs use both natural voice and falsetto.
Daegeum (Korean Bamboo Flute) Sanjo
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This album presents the masterful performance of Daegeum, a Korean traditional large bamboo transverse wind instrument which has a buzzing membrane that gives it a special timbre, by the master Lee Saeng-Kang. Daegeum dates back to 7th century Shilla dynasty. It is one of three transverse flutes, the large Daegeum, the medium-sized Junggeum, and the small Sogeum.
Daegeum has one blowing hole, six finger holes, and an extra hole covered with a thin membrane called Cheong (located between the blowing hole and finger holes). Cheong is a white resonant membrane cut from a reed's inner film which makes this instrument produce a distinctive buzzing sound that is refined and calm. There are two different types of Daegeum: Jeong-ak Daegeum (for classical and court music) and Sanjo Daegeum (for folk music). Of all Korean wind instruments, the Daegeum produces the softest and most graceful tone.
On the Road - 50th Anniversary of Kim Duk-Soo's Debut
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This album is the musical recording celebrating Kim Duk-Soo's 50th anniversary as a musical performer. It presents an illustration of the footprints on his musical journey with the younger generation and his students; Red Sun band; and the hip-hop group Square of his loving son, Yong-hoon. They sang of impassioned hope, Kim Duk-Soo's past, and their future on the road.
Improvisation by Baek In-Young
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This album presents the improvisation based on traditional Korean musical aesthetics and the unique naturalism in music arising from natural Korean instruments. It also provides the audience with a chance to feel the very pulse of improvisation flowing in the veins of Korean traditional music.
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