Music of Korea – Introduction

Differentiate between orally transmitted folk music, called minsok kugak, and recent cultural globalization, fushion kugak (“fusion Korean music”) and ch’angjak kugak (“newly made Korean music”), which have come to dominate the contemporary traditional Korean music scene.
Examine Korean music as acoustic reflections of Korea's historical, geographical, and ethnic identity, addressing such attributes as tone quality, tempo, vibrato, continuity, syncopation, modal and rhythmic shifts.

P´ansori

Analyze the philosophical foundations of Korean court music, which is rooted in the teachings from the ancient Book of Ceremony, one of the most important sources of Confucian scholarship.
Distinguish between Korean musical instruments, such as the 21-string kayagûm, a zither from Kaya, and the 6-string kômun´go with their other East Asian counterparts such as the Japanese koto, the Chinese guzheng, and Vietnamese dan tranh
Analyze Korean music´s transition from workplace to stage as a metaphor of human evolution from tribe to a complex, industrial society.
Examine the context of the hierarchy of court music, folk music as classified by regions, as well as differentiate these music(s) in terms of functionality, such as ceremonial, celebratory, processional, leisure, labor, healing, purging, or praying.