The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Yayue tradition · prehistoric–

Aak takes the Confucian sacrificial job from yayue: hymn and offering as the architecture, a tuned bell-and-lithophone set, and the same name.

Influence

Aak

tradition · 1116–

Also called Korean court ritual music, 雅樂, a-ak

Korean court sacrificial music: Confucian shrine suites, especially Munmyo jeryeak, played on a bronze-and-stone ritual set. It hears Yayue for the job, the kit, and the name 雅樂 / 아악. Jongmyo pieces such as Botaepyeong are mostly Sejong-era hyangak written for the royal ancestral rite, not Song aak (Provine). It is not hyangak as a whole, not dangak, and not Gagaku. Those other Korean court wings, and Japanese court orchestra, are neighbors. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked: concert reconstructions are spread. Hyangak leftover as the native court sibling. Dangak leftover as the Tang-banquet sibling (now a filed neighbor of Yanyue, not a child of this node).

Listen

  1. Munmyo jeryeak Korean aak tradition (Joseon / living) YouTube
  2. Munmyo heonseon Korean aak tradition (living)

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Yayue → Aak

function and contextinstrumentationform and structureperformance practicestrength: highwell documented1116–15th centurypatronagepedagogymigration

Mechanism

Aak takes the Confucian sacrificial job from yayue: hymn and offering as the architecture, a tuned bell-and-lithophone set, and the same name. Strength high. The dated carrier is the Song gift of instruments and musicians to Goryeo in 1116. Hyangak and dangak are other Korean court wings, not this edge.

Evidence

The 1116 gift; pyeonjong and pyeongyeong as the Korean ritual set; Munmyo and Jongmyo as living Confucian rites. Joseon recomposes much of the sung repertory (Sejong and after); the job and the kit stay.

Debate

How much living aak melody is Song versus Joseon composition. Consensus: the system travels; a large part of the sounding book is Korean. Do not parent aak from Gagaku or treat the two as one “East Asian court” node.

Mediators

institution: Song court; institution: Goryeo court