Answer: Pansori
Here's a quick breakdown, not in alphabetical order, of the main elements of a pansori performance:
- Pansori - a genre of Korean traditional music. The term 'pan' means "a place where many people gather", and 'sori' stands for "sound".
- Sorikkun/ kwangdae - the pansori singer
- Gosu - the drummer who accompanies the pansori singer
- Buk - the barrel drum used in a pansori performance
- ??? - fan used by singer for dramatic effect and to signal transitions in the story
- Aniris - descriptive speech
- Changs - song
- Chuimsae - short exclamations to encourage or spur on the singer; made by the drummer or audience
- Madang - a full story narrated and sung by a pansori singer; made up of aniris alternating with changs.
- Sopyonje - feminine style of singing from south-western Korea (inspiration for the film Sopyonje)
- Tongp'yonje - the more "masculine" style
BTW, did you know that pansori singers need super-human lungs, memories and stamina? Performing the full version of "Song of Chunhyang" without any breaks, for example, would take more than EIGHT hours.
I wonder about the stamina of the audience as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezljMPj9c4w&feature=related
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