Genres of Hanguk-Eumak

anguage

: The shaman' song is the most important in a ritual because it directly refers to the deities. The shaman's song can be divided into four in accordance to their usage; ushering song to invite the deities to the ritual space, praying song to address the deities, entertainment song to please the deities, and sending to dispatch the deities to the original place. The accompanists are generally male musicians most of whom came from a shaman family. A typical shaman sings a song with an accompaniment of her spouse.; The musical instruments used in a shaman ritual consists of the piri (double-reed bamboo oboe), daegeum (large transverse flute), haegeum (two-stringed fiddle), janggo (hourglass-shaped drum), and jing (large gong). This instrumentation is called samhyeon yuggak (lit. "three strings and six winds"). Besides, the jegeum (cymbals), taepyeongso (conical double-reed oboe), and bangul (bell rattle) are used in a ritual. In most case, only the piri, among the melodic instruments, is used due to the budget of the client.; In Jeonla province, the ajaeng (bowed zither) has replaced the haegeum recently. Different kinds of instrumentation is used on Jeju Island; seolsoe (small bowl-shaped gong), daeyang (large gong), janggo, and buk (barrel drum).