Samul nori

Samul nori
A samul nori performance in Bremen, Germany
Korean name
Hangul	사물놀이
Hanja	놀이
Revised Romanization	Samullori or Samul nori
McCune–Reischauer	Samullori or Samul nori

Samul nori is a genre of percussion music originating in Korea. The word samul means "four objects" and nori means "play"; Samul nori is performed with four traditional Korean musical instruments:

The traditional Korean instruments are called pungmul.

Samul nori has its roots in Pungmul nori (literally "Korean traditional percussion instruments playing"), a Korean folk genre comprising music, acrobatics, folk dance, and rituals, which was traditionally performed in rice farming villages in order to ensure and to celebrate good harvests. Since Korea's people until the modern times were 90% plus in farm related work this music defined Korean folk music or popular music and rhyme of Korea. Pungmul nori is also called Nong-ak nori. Nong meaning farm and ak meaning music. But this name did not come from farmers or Koreans for that matter. This name Nong-ak nori was introduced by Japanese imperial government's cultural colonization policies. relating everything "Koreaness" and what ever else they wanted to discourage to farm and making farming look uneducated and non-modern. Samul nori is the formalized, more modernized version of Pungmul nori. Samul nori was the name of a group that found this genera. But because their music got so much attention and became a pronoun and verb describing this genera that the group had to change their name. Samul nori started by adapting music from utdari pungmul (the gut, or shaman ceremony rhythm of the Gyeonggi-do and Chungcheong provinces of South Korea), as well as the genres of Yeongnam folk music and Honam udo gut, combined with more contemporary improvisations, elaborations, and compositions.[3] Original musics of these local rhymes steeped in traditional animism and shamanism, but also shows influences from Korean military music and Korean Buddhism. While full Pungmul nori often features the use of wind instruments, samul nori only features the aforementioned four percussion instruments.