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The sinawi is originally the accompanying instrumental music of a shaman ritual. When a shaman sings the musicians play the counter-melody on the melodic instruments and the various rhythmic pattern on the drums.
The sinawic
This kind of music is called sinawi. The sinawi is a complicated heterophonic music with improvisation.
The sinawi has become a stage instrumental music consisting of the piri, daegeum, haegeum, ajaeng, gayageum(twelve-stringed plucked zither), geomun-go(six-stringed plucked zither), janggo, and jing.
When a vocal is added to a sinawi performance, the singer sings a meaningless words. This style of vocal production is called gueum("lip sound").
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