찬송가 선율작법과 가사에 관한 음성 언어학적 연구: 장단, 강세를 중심으로

Abstract

Worship music is an important basis for the 7 movements to practice Reformed Life Theology. Luther, a Reformed theologian, marked a major turning point in worship music through congregational hymns. Luther emphasized that the characteristics of the native language and the music should be well matched by saying that it is necessary to use a musical language suitable for the native language. In order to practice Luther's view of music, this paper studied the characteristics of Korean and how to make a hymn based on it. In order to know the characteristics of Korean, we focused Korean prosody. This is because the prosody contains the vowel length and stress necessary for writing a song. Because the vowel length and stress are an important for Korean prosody, this study focused on the vowel length and stress. The vowel length and stress have been found to be related to both long and short duration and high and low pitch in Korean. These factors are an important because they play a decisive role in determining the rhythmic patterns in Korean. These rhythms of language were an important foundation for writing song. The process of making hymns using the vowel length and stress of the lyrics proceeded in three stages. The first stage is the work of moving it into the rhythm of music by using the vowel length and stress of the lyrics. The second stage is a process of creating a melody by applying high and low features of stress to the rhythmic pattern that has already been formulated in the first stage. The third stage is a step that the melody already created in the second stage is readjusted to make it sound more natural and artistically more refined. The melody created at the second stage may have an unnatural part as a result of the stress placement. This may arise due to the contradicting direction of the lyrics and the melody. In such case, it is necessary to find an appropriate compromise, but failing in that, the direction of the melody should be given priority in other to produce the most ideal hymns. I hope that the method of composing by using the vowel length and stress presented in this paper will give hymn composers a chance to be interested in Korean as well. And I look forward to the release of many Korean hymns with a melody that goes well with Korean prosodic principles.