MUSIC OF CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN PRESENTATION.ppt

A presentation of the chines, Korean and Japanese Music

1. MUSIC OF
CHINA, KOREA
AND JAPAN
by:
JOYCE DE LOS SANTOS FESICO

3. A. CHINA B. KOREA C. JAPAN
* Started during the Shang Dynasty
Han Dynasty – the court set up a
music department for
collection and editing of the
Ancient melodies
1. Formative period (300 BC – 400
AD)
Music: used in Folk Festivals
Instruments: Clay Oscarinas
Store chimes
2. International Period (Crest of
Chinese Music Development
Instruments: trumpets
oboes
Lutes
Drums
3. National period – stable and
affluence
Music: Folk Music
Opera
4. World Music
* a new kind of music was born
* Not enough evidence to trace the
beginning of Korean music
* It is deduced from pictures,
symbols on walls and cemetery in
the olden times
* Korean music was influenced by
Chinese music
* No sufficient records to show how
music fist developed in Japan
* Pictures and artifacts
* Influenced by Chinese music

5. A. CHINA B. KOREA C. JAPAN
A. VOCAL QUALITY
- high pitch and nasal
B. RHYTHM
- duple
with single melodic line /
strophic form
C. TONAL SCALE
written on the 12 pitch scale called
Wu Sheng
* Soft with controlled emotions
* triple
characterized by its sophisticated,
lyric song (Kasok) and (Sijo)
C.
1. Pyongjo (with 5 tones)
2. Kyunyon jo (3 principal tones)
3.
* Tight-throated and melismatic
manner
* Duple
- observe minute tones
free rhythm
delicate timbre
C.
1. Hard mode
2. Soft mode

7. A. CHINA B. KOREA C. JAPAN
1. Ya-yieh – music used in Chinese
courts
Types:
a. Yiieh – hsuan (chime music)
* music played in the garden
accompanied by a dance

* Wen-wu (Civilian dance)
* Wu-wu (Soldier dance)
b. Tang-ko (chamber song)
* music played in praise for
emperor’s kindness and his
ancestors
1. Chong-Ak – ruling class (refine)

Types:
a. A-ak – used inside the palace
b. Mingan – chong-ak – used
outside the palace
2. Sog-ak – music of the ordinary
people
1. Gagaku – musical ensemble
performed at the Japanese
Imperial courts
- refine music
- elite, highly cultured music
- combination of music, dance or
pantomime
Styles:
1. Togaku – court music with highest
musical style
2. Komagaku – musical style of
Koran origin asstd with rituals of
the Shinto
3. Saibara – small number of
Japanese folk songs set in an
elegant court style

9. A. CHINA B. KOREA C. JAPAN
A. AEROPHONES
Hsiao – end blown flute (smooth bamboo)
Ti – transverse bamboo flute tipped with
ivory or bone at the end
Sheng – a mouth organ with 17 pipes
B. CHORDOPHONES
Ch’in – 7 stringed zither
P’ipa – 4-stringed loquat shaped lute
Yueh – Ch’in – 4-stringed moonshape lute
(accompany Peking opera)
Cheng – a long zither with 13-23 strings
Erh-hu – a 2-stringed fiddle played with a
bowstring
San-hsion – 3-stringed banjo
C. IDIOPHONES
Yun-lo –small gongs struck with a small
beater
bangu – drim strike in the central area with
a pair of bamboo sticks
A. AEROPHONES
P’iri – cylindrical bamboo similar
to an oboe blown thru a
double reed mouthpiece
Tanso – small notched vertical
bamboo flute with 5
fingerholes, played by blowing
air thru the air holes
Chottdal – long flute made of
bamboo with 6 holes
B. CHORDOPHONE
Kayagum – 12 stringed zither
- 12 movable bridges
Komunggo – 6 stringed zither
Horegum – 2 stringed-fiddle made
of bamboo, plucked and used
for dance performances
C. MEMBRANOPHONES
Changgo – an hour-glass shaped
drum, played by striking both
ends
D. IDIOPHONES
Kwaenggwari – smallest gong
with a wooden mallet
Pok – clapper shaped like a
folded fan
Ching – huge gong played with a paddled
mallet
A. AEROPHONES
Sho –mouth organe made from bamboo
word
Shakuhachi – bamboo flute with 4 holes
Fu’ye – side-blown flute with 7 finger holes
Hichiriki – similar to an oboe
B. CHORDOPHONES
Koto – zither with 13 silk strings laid
horizontally on the floor
Shamishen – flat-backed lute, has skin-
covered bellies and 3 strings
Gekkin – flat-backed lute with shallow
body wood belly, frets and silk strings
attached to elegant peg
Biwa – Japanese version of P’ipa, 4
strings, frets on the belly and slim lateral

tuning pegs
C. MEMBRANOPHONES
Kakko – gagaku instrument made up
of deer skin
Tsuridaiko – suspended drum with
lacquered body and tacked head
Da-daiko – huge drum suspended on
an artistic frame struck with heavy
lacquered beaters