Samul Nori
Throughout the years South Korea has been known to be a society that is rapidly changing with the advancement of technology and the economy. Not only this but the culture, music, and artistic styles have also changed consistently to adapt to the international sensations that are trending in the world. The music of Samul Nori is a significant representation of the traditional world that South Korea has worked hard to preserve throughout the decades. The music of the Samul Nori is the uniting harmony between human beings and nature in accordance to the rules of Yin and Yang which also directly connects to the part of the society that worked the hardest to cultivate the land that is currently known as South Korea. The four instruments…show more content… When farmers were planting their crop they had these four elements as their basic instruments but also added wind instruments for variety and extra improvisation. Music was a form of making union within the villagers but also a way to keep the communities united between the villagers that worked in town and in the fields. This was the music that helped communities all work together and create distinct regional identities. Depending on what region the village was from, these villagers music had a varying number of rhythmic cycles and different stylistic forms of songs that they used. In some regions famers completely stray from using wind instruments and made up their own chants instead to fit in between the rhythm cycles. When the creator Duk Soo Kim created Samul Nori he took the music of amateur musicians that were using it for labor and created a style of music to be played by refined musicians. When this music was first performed in this setting it spread quickly and attracted a lot of the Korean people to find out more about this style of music. They began to teach Samul Nori in schools and educate students of all ages the importance on preserving an art form from the past
