Korean Traditional song- Gagok (one of the big three vocals; Gagok, Pansori, Bumpe) which is played by orchestra and sing of Korean verses; Sijo, has a unique beauty of its form based on u mode (ujo) and gyemyeon mode (gyemyeonjo). Also it has been pl...
Korean Traditional song- Gagok (one of the big three vocals; Gagok, Pansori, Bumpe) which is played by orchestra and sing of Korean verses; Sijo, has a unique beauty of its form based on u mode (ujo) and gyemyeon mode (gyemyeonjo). Also it has been played in multiplicity performance type, for example, male·female·male and female song ect.
Different from other vocals, it has distinctive feature that Gagok is sing with orchestra with Gayageum·Geomungo·Yanggeum·Sepiri·Haegeum· Danso·Janggu, ect.
Every instrument has its own features, but especially I want to figure out the factor that Geomungohas known for key-instrument in the orchestra for Gagok play.
In this paper presents the differences between Jukhun Kimgiso's 『Jungajib』and 『Korean music- Male Gagok』no.18, u mode(ujo) Chosudaeyeop and Isudaeyeop's lyric melody and orchestra melody. Also through the comparison lyric melody and Geomungo melody on the score, looked up the same melody similar and contrary melody and made a chart and indicated as a data.
I analyze the study result below.
First, as the result of this study, 67% of the total u mode Chosudaeyeop, 58% of the total U mode Isudaeyeophas same, similar melodies between lyric melody and Geomungo's melody, and show 33%, 42% of differentiation.
According to this data, I found that Geomungo melody supports the majority of the lyric melody.
In second, when the differentiated melody is playing, usually it is played in munhyoncode or cheongcode. I confirmed these four facts. First, when the song continues a single tone more than one phrase, Geomungo melody supports the main melody. Second, it previously shows the pattern of next movement. Third, it prefigures the progress of the vocal melody. Fourth, after vocal melody starts, Geomungo melody paraphrases the vocal melody to support the whole phrases.
In accordance with above study, the role of Geomungo is very important in a Gagok orchestra. These days, one of famous traditional instrument of Korean scholar; seonbi, the importance of Geomungo which is the essential instrument for the orchestra of Gagok, has been faded. So the nick name of Geomungo, ‘Bekakgijang(百樂之丈)’which means the king of all instruments, has become meaningless. Besides the Geomungo has very unoique tone, so it seldom make harmony with other Western instruments. Furthermore, because of the difficulty of its instrumental improvement, nowadays the usage and preference has been stepping down in modern fictive orchestra music.
From the historical research to figure out the reason why the Geomungo had considered it of very important one, and the necessity in the orchestra for the Gagok. For the next, I am going to research a complete study about the charge of the Gagok play as well as other classified music.