Samulnori

I want to introduce Samulnori today since I wrote about "Jing" last time. Samulnori is a Korean traditional percussion music and Samulnori performers wear the traditional clothes for performance. It is very rhythmic and entertaining. It requires four different Korean traditional instruments such as Kkwaenggwari (small gong), Jing (larger gong), Janggu (hourglass-shaped drum), and Buk (a barrel drum). Buk has a lower sound than Janggu and Jing has a lower sound than Kkwaenggwari. Kkwaenggwari sounds very annoying actually because it is very loud and relatively high in pitch. Each of the four instruments represents a different weather condition: the Janggu represents rain, the Kkwaenggwari is thunder, the Jing is the sound of the wind, and the Buk represents clouds. The formation of the performers is in the picture below.

http://samulnorimexico.blogspot.com/

  I give you this link to look at the actual performance to get the idea what Samulnori is.

Korean Music Samulnori