Aak

Aak
Hangul	아악
Hanja	雅樂
Revised Romanization	Aak
McCune–Reischauer	Aak

Aak (Korean: 아악; Hanja: 雅樂; Korean pronunciation: [a.ak̚]) is a genre of Korean court music. It is an imported form of the Chinese court music yayue,^[1] and means "elegant music". Aak was performed almost exclusively in state sacrificial rites, and in the present day it is performed in certain Confucian ceremonies.^[2]

Aak in Korea was facilitated and adapted through the gifting of instruments from a Chinese emperor to Korea in the 12th century.^[3] Due to Japanese occupation in the 20th century, performances of aak were limited to The Sacrifice to Confucius and The Sacrifice to Royal Ancestors.^[4]

^ Keith Howard. "Korean Music" (PDF). Archived from the original on March 27, 2005.
^ Provine, Robert C. (1992). "The Korean Courtyard Ensemble for Ritual Music (Aak)". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 24: 107. doi:10.2307/768472. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 768472.
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[korean_music-1] Keith Howard. "Korean Music" (PDF). Archived from the original on March 27, 2005.

[:22-2] Provine, Robert C. (1992). "The Korean Courtyard Ensemble for Ritual Music (Aak)". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 24: 107. doi:10.2307/768472. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 768472.

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