근대 찬송가 창작가사의 음악찾기

Abstract

So far, this researcher has examined creative words that were used asthe lyrics of mission songs in the early period of evangelization by the Korea church. Some of those words were tuned to British or American hymns. Others were sung by using the melodies of popular or traditional songs that were in fashion at that time. Nevertheless, many creative words are still uncertain when it comes to music pieces to which those words were adapted to be sung. This is because the words are remained without any musical information. Therefore, this study aimed to identify songs to whichthe creative words were adapted to be sung. In the previous study, this researcher focused on correlations in termsof vocabulary, content and expression between creative and original words and similarities in meter and syllable structure between the two groups of words. Accordingly, the researcher identified hymns that have something to do with some creative words while informing other creative words whose related hymns were not found. This study discussed in the following how to more effectively identify songs based on which creative words were sung, which were not identified in the previous research. First, this study examined cases that original and creative words match with each other in terms of content and form. In terms of content, those original and creative words are same or similar to each other in implications and the composition, vocabulary and expression of the refrain. In terms of form, the two groups of words are exactly equal to each other in meter,syllable structure, the number of syllables and rhythm. In some of the cases,creative words have more syllables than original ones do. This is attributed to rhythmic division for communicating the meaning of Korean lyrics. It’s not a big problem musically. Second, this study examined cases that creative words are different in content or form from original words. More specifically, those cases include creative words that are similar in content to original words or have sometraces of the originals, but different in the number of syllables and creativewords that are same in meter, but different in lyrics from original words. In these cases, it’s possible to identify songs only if creative and originalwords are same in any of content and form. Third, this study dealt with cases that it’s difficult to determine a music piece to which creative words were adapted. Those cases include creative words which are presumed to have been adapted to a music piece when their meter, number of syllables and lyric structure and expression are considered, but that piece is uncertain, creative words that seem to have something to do with traditional music, but which piece of that music is related is uncertain(a long-text music piece like pansori) and creative wordswhose refrain is different from that of original words. In this study, the researcher could identify songs that were sung with creative words by determining the originals of those words. This provides basic information for helping identify songs based on which many other creative words for which music scores can’t be found were sung. The identification is necessary for clarifying this country’s history of earlier church music.