The farmer's ballads of the Cheongwon-gun districts except those of Buyong-myeon are generally slow like those of the Chooung buk districts. This feature has advantages deepening songs all the more since each sound becomes a rocking sound, a falling s...
The farmer's ballads of the Cheongwon-gun districts except those of Buyong-myeon are generally slow like those of the Chooung buk districts. This feature has advantages deepening songs all the more since each sound becomes a rocking sound, a falling sound, a transitive sound, etc.
Most of the ballads belong to the 'Gyemyeon-jo' (Minor Scale) which is composed of three notes or four notes. Exceptionally the ballads of 'Pyeong-jo'(Major Scale, 'Anpangge Sori') which is composed of five notes were also found.
For the result of this study, we can find the possibility of collecting a variety of materials, for even the same kind of type has been changed according to villages and singers, and we can also find the future possibility of collecting many different ballads in various areas with comparatively less frequent interchange among them.
As the farmer's ballads are a kind of popular songs which bear the grief and joy our people depending on farming, they hold a racial spirit, and they have the rhythm and melody kept only by our people. Therefore, they should be preserved and handed down at all costs.
We are convinced that they will be infinite materials in creating modern music art based on them. However, it is possible to collect them from the old persons over sixty years old, now. Therefore, we will suggest that we should be in a hurry to collect them. For the problem about how we can show the flavor of singers as it is on the score, the further study on the score collecting will be necessary.