판소리 중고제의 제설(諸說)과 정의에 관한 재검토

Abstract

There have been many assumptions about pansori jung’goje. It has been considered as a kind of melodic characteristics, a singing skill, or a pansori school having specific reginal characteristics. Recently, it has been strongly considered as a pansori school of SeoulㆍGyeon’gi province, and as an old school having former traces of pansori. There are some mistakes in these assumptions in that ujo and gyemyeonjo which are two main modes in pansori are all aboriginal in Honam province, jung’goje has various kinds of Chinese characters, masters of pansori did not have fluent sayings about that, monotonous melodies of jung’goje do not show that it is an old form, etc. It can be argued that jung’goje is, on the contrary, a concept of peripheral areas’ pansori school such as SeoulㆍGyeon’gi province. It is true that pansori of Gyeon’giㆍChungcheong province is monotonous in melody, obscure in genealogy, but these haracteristics can not make jung’goje reagrded as an old version pansori. These misunderstandings of jung’goje should be caused by the desire for old ones and the misinterpretation about the history of pansori.