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Aak - Definition and Overview
Aak
Korean name
Hangul: 아악
Hanja: 雅樂
Revised Romanization: Aak
McCune-Reischauer: Aak


Aak is a musical genre of court music from Korea. It is an imported form of Chinese ritual music.

Aak was brought to Korea in 1116, and very popular for a time before dying out. It was revived in 1430, based on a reconstruction of older melodies. The music is now highly specialized, and uses just two different surviving melodies, and is played only at certain very rare concerts, such as the Sacrifice to Confucius in Seoul.

Aak is one of three types of Korean court music; the other two are tanguk and hyangak. Aak is similar to tanguk in that both are rarely played and both have Chinese influences.

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