Korean Peninsula To Accept The Chinese Court Music, Inheritance And Variable Derivatives

Chinese Yayue, which originated from ritual music system of West-Zhou Dynasty, disappeared after several thousand years along with the decline of the court stage. However, in the early 12th Century, the emperor, Song-huizong presented the Yayue instruments to Koryo Dynasty, thus the culture of Yayue began to be inherited in Korean peninsula and was preserved in relatively integrated form. It is worthy to point that the Yayue instruments that has been lost in China are inherited in Korea and still be used to play to this day. Therefore, it is of great significance to study Chinese music history.This paper attempts to achieve a comprehensive analysis and perception of the history, inheritance, evolution of Korean Aak, and Korea's attitude, stance, and capability regarding accepting the Chinese music culture by means of the investigation of the historical documents and the full, overall examination of the inheritance of Aak in Yi Dynasty of the Korea. I will discuss it mainly from the following three chapters. The first part deals with the reception of Chinese Yayue in Koryo. The second part discusses the continuity and change of Yayue in Yi dynasty court music. The third part deals with the causes of the inheritance and evolution.The paper combines the method of historical musicology and ethonomusicology,presents a comprehensive and deep contrastive study of instrument compilation and orchestra organization between Korean aak and Chinese Yayue on the basis of the historical documents of the same period between China and Korea, thus revealing the evidence and cause of history-culture through the analysis of concrete music forms.