The Kayagûm is one of the oldest Korean string instruments. However, it has been undergoing many modifications.

In which Korean tradition do the instruments pictured above produce a shrill cry and its answer?
Nongak

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The music example above represents:
A buddhist chant

The tradition of p'ungmul is:
A dynamic outdoor ensemble of drums and gongs parading through villages and marketplace alleyways

Sanjo is:
A highly developed art of improvisation accompanied on changgo.

Exuding a truth captured in a momentary awakening and improvisational in nature, sijo was:
All of the above.

The kkwaenggari (small gong), changgo (hourglass drum), ching (big gong), and puk (barrel drum) have been combined in a newly emerged type of Korean chamber percussion ensemble called:
Samulnori

P'ungmul is one of the few Korean musical traditions that has been able to escape being politicized.
False

Different from the median Western musical tempo, Korean median tempo relates to:
Breathing

Religion and music were strongly connected in ancient Korea. However, only instruments, not the songs themselves, were believed to possess spiritual power.
False

During which dynasty did Korean folk rituals, performing arts, and artists fall to an outcast existence?
Chosôn

Korean mudang ritual developed as a kind of spiritual narrative drama.
True

From around the first century BC, in the kingdom of Silla, leaders were first groomed as hwarang, the "flower youths," who were trained in:
All of the above

The Kayagûm is one of the oldest Korean string instruments. However, it has been undergoing many modifications. What is the original number of strings in the Kayagûm before the modern revisions?
12

Which of the following melodic modes is NOT typically used in P'ansori singing:
sincere (jinshillo)

The first sanjo experiment is credited to Kim Ch´angjo on:
Kayagûm

The tradition of Korean p'ansori is:
A musical journey that spans from the oral cultural to the modern age

When did the musical cultures of Central Asia, along with Buddhism, enter Korea, catalyzing active musical exchanges between Korea and her neighbors?
From the fourth century

Korean shamans are exclusively female.
False

Sometime during the nineteenth century p'ansori reinvented itself as:
The "five-narrative" canon grounded in Confucian teachings

Korean women began to train in p'ansori during:
The latter part of the nineteenth century

The Chindo Sikkim-kut (shamanic ceremony) is intended to:
Cleanse a deceased soul