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Hyangak (native Korean music) and dangak (Koreanized music of Chinese origin) ate given much weight in Korean Court Music. Both genres of music had been performed in Korean Court without interruption from Goryeo Dynasty (高麗, 918~1392) through Joseon Dynasty (朝鮮, 1392~1910). Though they were occasionally performed at several court rites and other ceremonies during this long period, they were mainly performed at court banquets. Quiet a few pieces of those music had been performed at various court banquets and other ceremonies in the Korean Court before 1910, but only a few of them ate left and performed in these days. Why ate only a few of them left and performed today? The reason of it might be said that the chances of performing them have gradually been reduced since the Joseon Dynasty until now. At which court occasions, then, were those pieces of music performed from the Sejong period (1418~1450) through the Yeonsan-gun period (1494~1506). This study has been carried out focused mainly on this matter and shows us many performed examples of them during this short period. Roughly the results of it can be summarized as follows. Though all the pieces of hyangak and dangak in the akji (樂志, musical section) of Goryeosa (高麗 史, History of the Goryeo Dynasty) weren't performed at the Court of Joseon Dynasty during this period, the fact that many pieces of them had been performed at the Court of Joseon Dynasty without interruption should be evaluated highly from the viewpoint of musicology. Especially newly composed pieces of hyangak and dangak as sinak (新樂, new music) by Sejong enriched the Court Music of Joseon Dynasty all the more. Among all the pieces of sinak several pieces of hyangak, which were composed on the basis of old hyangak from Goryeo and gachwiak (鼓吹樂, a kind of Royal processional music), opened a new and unique Court Music of Joseon Dynasty. According to Akhakgwebeom (樂學軌範, Guide to the Study of Court Music and Dance) and Gyeonggukdaejeon (經國大典, National Code), a large number of hyangak and dangak pieces of the Goryeo Dynasty, and those of Sejong's sinak were still performing at various court banquets and ceremonies during the Seongjong period (成宗, 1469~1494). In other words it means that both genres of music were much flourished rather than went into a decline in those days. I have noticed that the uses of hyangak in Sejong's sinak were restricted within narrow limits except for some pieces of them in those days and any performed record on Balsang (發祥, a birth of good omen), which was a hyangak piece of sinak, was not found in any annals and book since a record of it in the Annals of Sejo (世祖, 1455~1468) in 1460. Among the uses of Sejong's sinak the extensive use of Yeominak (與民樂, enjoy with people), Jeongdae-eop (定大業, founding a great dynasty), and Botaepyeong (保太平, maintaining great peace) was a motive to transmit some pieces of Sejong's sinak to the present. Especially Yeominak-man (慢) and Yeominak-ryeong (令) were the most extensively used pieces among all the hyangak of Sejong's sinak. I could not find out any record of using all the dangak pieces which were created before Sejong in the early Joseon Dynasty and that of most Sejong's new dangak pieces after the Sejong period. It means that all these pieces disappeared after the Sejong period. But some of these were still remaining in the Akhakgwebeom not as music but as dangak-jeonjae (呈才, court dance). Between the hyangak and the dangak, especially the uses of former had been regarded more important than those of the latter since the Sejong period. Among 3 hyangak-jeonjae in the akji of Goryeosa only Mue (無?, without difficulty), which was performed at the court of Sejong period, was not recorded in the Akhakgwebeom, but newly choreographed hyangak-jeonjae Botaepyeong, Jeongdae-eop, Bongnaeeui (鳳來儀, ceremony of Chinese phoenix), Hyangbal (響?, sound of small cymbals), and Hakmu (鶴舞, crane dance) in the early Joseon Dynasty enriched the world of hyangak-jeonjae in the Akhakgwebeom. Revived dangak-jeonjae Gokpa (曲破, broken melody) and Yukwbadae (六花隊, a group of six flowers) were added to 5 transmitted dangak-jeonjae from the Garyo Dynasty in this period. Especially 8 pieces of dance music for the Gokpa enlarged the number of dangak pieces in the Akhakgwebeom. But the real number of performed dangak pieces at the court banquets and ceremonies during this period were only a few. Yeonsan-gun regarded music and dance as two tools for his sensual pleasures. He loved Cheoyongmu (處容舞, a kind of mask dance) and the Hakmu of hangak-jeonjae very much. His abnormal affection for both these dances were very serious. But it curiously enough helped a lot to transmit those two dances to the present and we can see an interesting historical paradox in this aspect.