myŏngch’ang
Korean singer
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p’ansori
- In pansori: Pansori from the 17th through the 19th century
…on the work of several myeongchang (“great singers”). During the early myeongchang period, which spanned the first half of the 19th century, singers strove to expand the audience of pansori by employing vocal techniques and melodies that were intended to appeal to the upper classes. However, the melodic vocabulary of…
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