Sanjo (music)

Sanjo ( Sino- Korean), also Korean heoteun garak ( " scattered melody " ), is a solo style of Korean folk music in which a melody instrument of a drum, most of the hourglass janggu is accompanied. The origins of the end of the 19th century developed Sanjo be in the music of the southwestern Jeolla - do Province, the epic singing style Pansori and the shamanistic ritual music, emerged from the also the improvised instrumental style Sinawi.

The Sanjo style was first gayageum for the twelve-string Wölbbrettzither, later extended to virtually all Korean melody instruments geomungo especially the six-stringed zither, the seven-, painted with the bow zither ajaeng, the two-stringed fiddle haegeum and wind instruments, including the cone oboes piri and soenap (corresponds to the Chinese suona ) and the bamboo flute daegeum. Since the 1960s, Sanjo is taught at music schools.

It is a modal music, which similarly based on different rhythmic cycles the Indian raga. There are three main modes ( jo ), which are used in sanjo described in 1763 resulting Ballad of the eastern sea. The imagery relate to events and persons of Chinese history, but the musical context is clearly Korean.

Modes: ( the description portrays the character of the modes)

• Pyongjo: In the " Southern Hall of well- odor " soothed the mystical Emperor Shun ( 2255-2205 BC), the indignation of the people with a piece on the five-string Qin. The mode of these sounds must be upright and mild.
• Ujhere: General Xiang Yu jumps rage roaring on his horse, and ten thousand soldiers tremble with fear. Transparent and magnificent sound this mode.
• Kyemynjo: When Wang Jiao - Zhun Han leaves the farm to the north, there is snow and cold wind blows. This mode is full of melancholy and sadness.

In another mode of traditional kyongdurum representing the haughty sophistication of the capital. This Sanjo begins with very slow rhythmic patterns which accelerate very gradually.

For Sung Gumyun School: Sung Gumyun ( Kor. 성금연, Hanja成 锦 鸢; 1923-1986 ) for the first "living heritage " for Sanjo gayageum in 1968 was appointed ( for West Europeans elusive ceremony). When they emigrated to the United States in 1975, she was withdrawn by the government of the title. The Sung Gumyun - Sanjo is known for its concentrated and scarce expression in detail, but with more than one hour's duration also one of the most expansive time Sanjo.