MAPEH 8 - Korea's Instrumental Music Instruments

This folk music tradition, with its general use of bright rhythms and melodies, offers a more energetic and capricous contrast to the nation's collection of classical music works.

• Japanese folk music tradition

• Korean folk music tradition

• Chinese folk music tradition

A traditional Korean stringed musical instrument of the zither family of instruments with both bridges and frets.

• Sog-ak

• Kayagum

• Piri

• Geomungo

• Pansori

It is a wind of instrument that is made of bamboo. Its large reed and cylindrical bore gives it a sound mellower than that of many other types of oboe.

• Chong-ak

• Pansori

• Kayagum

• Piri

• Geomungo

This is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings.

• Changgo

• Pansori

• Geomungo

• Kayagum

• Piri

This drum consists of an hourglass-shaped body with two heads made from animal skin.

• Piri

• Chong-ak

• Pansori

• Changgo

• Sog-ak

It is a category of Korean music traditionally associated with the lower classes or for the general public and are vibrant and energetic. It includes genres such as pansori and minyo.

• Kayagum

• Changgo

• Sog-ak

• Piri

• Geomungo

It has a rodlike neck, a hollow wooden soundbox, two silk strings, and is held vertically on the knee.

• Sog-ak

• Haegum

• Chong-ak

• Folk Music

• Changgo

This is a kind of music presented to audiences by skilled vocal singers and drummers, but even the unskilled could sing these songs.

• Pansori

• Haegum

• Sog-ak

• Changgo

• Kayagum

It refers to ensemble music of men of high social status outside of the court.

• Korean folk music tradition

• Piri

• Changgo

• Haegum

• Chong-ak

It represents the soul and sound of traditional Korean villages with an eclectic array of music forms.

• Kayagum

• Pansori

• Geomungo

• Folk Music

• Korean folk music tradition