Week 5 assignment
201001043 So Young Na
Pungmulnori
In western society, there is orchestra, In Korea, there is 'Pungmulnori' which encounters various kinds of Korean traditional musical instruments. Pungmulnori originated from very old history of Korea. Farmers formed pungmylnori band to play music for various ceremonies mostly related to farming. Pungmulnori contains culture and many feelings of Korean farmers.
Everything about pungmulnori is related to farming. That is because pungmulnori is the music of farmers. First, although there are many musical instruments, there are four main instruments that lead the band. They are jing, book, kkwaenggwari, and janggu. Each of them represents nature since nature is the most important factor to consider when farming. In fact, jing has the sound of wind, while book sounds like cloud. Janggu represents rain and kkwaenggwari sounds like thunder. Moreover, most of the time, people formed pungmulnori band to lessen their hardship of farming and strengthen themselves by singing and dancing. They also played at the start of farming season to pray for successful harvest and at the end of the season to thank the nature. In this respect, Korean ancestors gained energy and confidence through pungmulnori.
Recently, as lesser people have interest in pungmulnori, a famous janggu player Kim Duk Soo remodeled pungmulnori to samulnori. Samulnori encounters much fewer number of instruments but equally sounds energetic as pungmulnori. What is important is that modern people are still interested and eager to maintain old tradition.
To SoYoung - From HyeRi
ReplyDeleteHi^,^
What I liked about your piece of writing is that you explained well how pungmulnori and farming is related. Actually, I didn't know that each instruments has the sound of the nature. It is quite interesting!
Your main point seems to be "pungmulnori is realted with farming very close."
I think the sentence "modern people are still interested and eager to maintain old tradition" was really good because I think we descendants have to maintain our tradition.
"when farming" was somewhat unclear to me, so I think maybe you can improve the sentence like "when the farmers do the farming."
The one change you could make that would make the biggest improvement in this piece of writing is "Unity." You firstly referred samulnori in the concluding paragraph, so I think it would be better if you write that in the body paragraph.
Thank you ^,^
Pungmulnori
ReplyDeleteIn western society, there is orchestra, In Korea, there is 'Pungmulnori' which encounters various kinds of Korean traditional musical instruments. Pungmulnori originated from very old history of Korea. Farmers formed pungmylnori band to play music for various ceremonies mostly related to farming. Pungmulnori contains culture and many feelings of Korean farmers.
Everything about pungmulnori is related to farming. That is because pungmulnori is the music of farmers. First, although there are many musical instruments, there are four main instruments that lead the band. They are jing, book, kkwaenggwari, and janggu. Each of them represents nature since nature is the most important factor to consider especially in agrarian culture like Korea. In fact, jing has the sound of wind, while book sounds like cloud. Janggu represents rain and kkwaenggwari sounds like thunder. Moreover, most of the time, people formed pungmulnori band to lessen their hardship of farming and strengthen themselves by singing and dancing. They also played at the start of farming season to pray for successful harvest and at the end of the season to thank the nature. In this respect, Korean ancestors gained energy and confidence through pungmulnori.
Recently, as lesser people have interest in pungmulnori, a famous janggu player Kim Duk Soo remodeled pungmulnori to samulnori. Samulnori encounters much fewer number of instruments but equally sounds energetic as pungmulnori. It is really important for modern people to not only maintain old tradition but also pass down.