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Gagok, the Korean classical lyric song, is a kind of art form which combines poetry and music, and there have been many musicological researches into this genre. However, there are few papers or articles about the production or the process of development in the female part of gagok. This paper focused on grasping musicologically the process of development in the female part of gagok through the examination of musical notes of the 19th century, and the conclusions are as follows: First, The first appearance of the female part of gagok is in 〈Samjuk Geumbo〉(1841), and the first note that male and female parts sing together is the Cheongseong Sakdaeyeop in 〈Samjuk Geumbo〉(1841). The first emergence of the name of the Taepyeong-ga which is the same as the contemporary name is in 〈Hyeongeum O'eum Tongron〉(1886), and the first appearance of the Hwan'gyerak which has only female part of song is in 〈Seogeum gagok〉(1884). Second, the habitual practice that male and female parts sing by turns is firstly verified in 〈Hyeonhak Geumbo〉(1852). Third, it seems that the female part of song would arise from the trial which made the tone of male part heighten one octave up. However, if the original tone of male part was very high, flasetto must be efficiently used, because of the almost impossible compass. In other case, the melody of the female part would be varied as low tone, deliberating on the contents of the text. This case would be the parts that the melody of male and female parts has a difference of a forth or a fifth.