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Okay, I keep getting questions about #daechwita. So, the initial vocalization in #AgustD's track sounds a little more like a vocalization that would happen in #pungmul than in #대취타, but that part is fine. However, the music is #pungmul, not daechwita
As you can hear in the track I just linked, the music of #daechwita is dominated by aerophones (horns and the taepyeongso) as well as cymbals. So what we are hearing in the music in Suga's video is #삼도농악 a piece by the original Samulnori group founded in 1978.
You can hear here #김덕수 the leader of the most famous #samulnori group (and a member of the original 1978 group when the new genre was founded), starting off this piece of music.
What we hear in #AgustD's video is a larger ensemble playing this piece of music-- not a four man group-- something a little smaller than this large #samulnori ensemble.
So, while the song is called #대취타 we are not *hearing* that type of music.
Why then call it #daechwita? Probably because as military marching music daechwita was associated more closely with royalty and would be something the king would hear, while #pungmul (b/c samulnori
Why then call it #daechwita? Probably because as military marching music daechwita was associated more closely with royalty and would be something the king would hear, while #pungmul (b/c samulnori
didn't exist during the Joseon dynasty which the song references repeatedly), the predecessor to samulnori (the other predecessor is #namsadang), was folk music that the king would rarely have heard.
Obviously for the song, sonically the samulnori/pungmul worked better than
Obviously for the song, sonically the samulnori/pungmul worked better than
if they had used daechwita music (refer back to the first tweet if you didn't listen to it yet, so you can hear the difference).
What I find curious, though, is that in the long list of credits for the song the *many* listed credits do not give any credits to these musicians,
What I find curious, though, is that in the long list of credits for the song the *many* listed credits do not give any credits to these musicians,
and I wonder, then, who they used to perform the traditional music in the song. I suppose I should reach out to my performer friends and I can probably find out from them (the traditional performing arts community in Korea is very close knit).
Someone informed me that the soundcloud actually credits a clip of Daechwita from the National Gugak Center (gugak=K traditional music). However, this: is not daechwita. You can search daechwita on YouTube until the cows come home and you will not find
the specific sound you hear starting at 0:30 in #AgustD's track. I would not be surprised if this was ALSO a clip from the National Gugak Center, and I am going to email one of their execs and find out.
