What are the musical characteristics of Korean folk songs?

Korean folk songs belong to the East Asian Music Department. The pentatonic scale without semitone is the basis of various modes. Feather mode is used the most, followed by demand mode, angle mode and quotient mode. The mode frame of Korean folk songs is a three-tone group. Adding and inserting different tones into a three-tone frame will form a series of modes used by Korean folk songs.

The melody lines of Korean folk songs are mainly descending and parabolic, and parabolic is more common. It is also common in Korean folk songs to take a certain sound as the axis and do ups and downs around it. Axis tone is generally the main tone of mode.

Korean folk songs prefer to use vibrato, and various vibrato singing methods are rich in expression.

The rhythm and beat system in Korean folk music is called "length". "Long" includes not only the form of beat and rhythm, but also the factors of speed and emotion. Korean traditional folk songs have a very rich "combination of length and length". The rhythm of Korean traditional folk songs has a feeling of vigor and movement. From the perspective of modern music theory, the compound beat composed of triple beat and triple beat is the most representative beat in its traditional folk songs.