On the Characteristics and Musical Features of Korean Folk Songs

Korean folk songs are an important part of the national folk music tradition. They are mainly based on the traditional mode tonality, take the five-tone mode as the melody feature of folk songs, and organically combine the unique length characteristics and personal music style of Korean people, thus highlighting the Korean folk songs with unique national music characteristics.

The most important features of Korean traditional music-playing strings, turning voices and retreating voices.

Korean national music has its own distinctive personality in form, principle, mode system and melody characteristics. The mode characteristics of Korean traditional music are the flat mode and interface tone system based on pentatonic scale. The flat tones seen in the songs include feather tones (flat tones), farewell to Lingshan, and other feather tones. And the interface tone is Uncle Ding and Sanxian Lingshan Meeting.

The Rhythm Feature of Korean Traditional Music —— "Length"

"Long" includes rhythm law, rhythm organization form, speed and emotion, and each "long" has its own characteristics of relative emotional personality. The most important characteristics of Korean traditional music are three-point beat, retreat, shake and turn. Korean traditional music singing is a kind of elastic vibrato in the intersection of light and shade.