Sound of Korea:

Lift up your Spirit and Expand your MindWith the Ecstatic Sound of Korean Music

HYESOO YOO & SANGMI KANG

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

If you are a smart phone user,

would you download the app: igayageum?

Regardless of North and South Koreas.

Regarded as a National Folk Song (Howard, 1999)

Arirang

The most famous Korean folk song.

Between North and South Koreas

Languages

Emotions

Politics

Cultures

N. Korea S. Korea

In the Athens Summer Olympic

The Meaning of Arirang

= My Beloved One

beautiful A groom

Between

man and woman

Love Toward their Homeland

Between

man and woman

Toward

Their mother country

Lyrics

My beloved one (3x)

My beloved one is going over the mountain

If you leave and forsake me

Lame you will be before going within three miles.

Let’s Appreciate it: Arirang (Choir)

The

Characteristics

of Korean

Music?

Let’s Appreciate it: Arirang (Traditional)

The

Characteristics

of Korean

Music?

Let’s sing together : Arirang

The

Characteristics

of Korean

Music?

1. Voice Style

MU.5.H.1.3 Compare stylistic and musical features in works

originating from different cultures.

2. Rhythm

<Semachi Jangdan>

Dung Dung Duk Kung Duk

* Jangdan : Repeated Rhythmic Pattern

Using Janggu (a Traditional instrument)

But, we

don’t have

Janggu!

Dung Dung Duk Kung Duk

1) Using Classroom Drums

2) Using Orff Instrument

Soprano

Xylophone

Alto

Xylophone

3) Hand-made Instrument

3. A traditional Pitch Instrument

1) You can invite a guest artist. (Lundquist, 2002)

Gayageum

3. A traditional Pitch Instrument

2) You can make it!

Miniature Gayageum

Six Rubber bands->Six Strings.

- Korean mode is pentatonic.

(Sol, La, Do, Re, Mi, + Sol)

A Tissue Box->the Body

of the Gayageum.

Small corks->Movable bridges.

3. A traditional Pitch Instrument

3) Use technology!

iGayageum

G C

D G

A C

D E

G A

C D

Korean Fan Dance

Korean fan dance is one of the most popular

traditional folk dances of Korea.

It is a relatively modern dance that was developed in

the 18th century using the fan. The fans are thought to

expel evil and bring prosperity.

TATA KOREA

A: Let’s play tata X 3, ta-ta

B: Let’s play tata, ta-ta X 2

The first group : “Let’s play tata”

The second group: “ta ta ta….”

CODA: 1, 2, 3, 4, tata …. 1234, 1234, 1234, Hui.Hui

123, 123, 1, 123 (Hui hui hui!).

Intro: Let’s play tata X 4

A: Let’s play tata X 3, ta-ta

Contact Information

Sangmi Kang: kang_sangmi@hotmail.com

Hyesoo Yoo: HaeS2000@gmail.com