Thursday, January 14, 2010

Sorikkun + Gosu + Buk = ?

What do you get when you put a sorikkun with a gosu and buk together?

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.
source:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezljMPj9c4w&feature=related

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