NOTES
YULMYEONG
Yulmyeong is the name of the notes, and Yul means the notes from Gugak. There are Yulmyeong called Sibbun Sonikbum, which means 12 notes. These are called Hwangjong, Daerhye, Taeju, Hyubjong, Goseon, Jongrhue, Yubin, Imjoing, Ichik, Namrhue, Muyuk, Umjong. However, when they are writing on the notes, it only writes the first letter of each name Hwang, Dae, Tae, Hyub, Go, Jung, Yu, I, Nam, Mu, Ung.
UMGYE
Umgye is a musical scale. There are Five Umgye and seven Umgye. Usually most of the traditional music five musical scale. For Jongmyu Jaerhaeak has two musical scales which are ‘hwang-tae-jung-im-nam’ (G-A-C-D-E) or ‘hwang-hyub-jung-im-mu’ (A-C-D-E-G)
Five musical scales that using for the folk song is made of three common scale and add one or two scales depends on the area.
For example in Gyeongido and Chungcheongdo area used ‘G-A-C-D-E’, ‘A-C-D-E-G’ and ‘C-D-E-G-A’. In Jeonrado, Gyeongsangdo, Gangwondo, Hamgyeongdo used ‘E-G-A-C-D’, while Hwanghaedo, Pyeongando used ‘A-C-D-E-G’ and ‘D-E-G-A-C’. Jaeju island used ‘D-E-G-A-C’.