세종 창제 신악(新樂)은 어떤 음악인가?－ 정대업, 보태평, 발상에 한하여 －

Abstract

The great king Sejong made much effort to lay the groundwork for the new dynasty with music, according to the Confucius teaching that the government should rule with order and music( ). He invented the Korean alphabet, and made the birth epic of Joseon Dynasty, Yongbieocheonga( ), written in the new alphabet. For the epic he composed the new music called ‘Sinak()’, and he invented the music notation called Jeongganbo( ) to record the Sinak. This music notation allowed us today to restore the music of his day. However, the rhythm of the music notation was not fully interpreted, and thus his music in the scores has not been disclosed yet. This paper studies the musical characters of Sinak, based on the interpretation of the rhythm of Jeongganbo( ) by this author. Firstly, the musical characters of Hyangak and Gochwiak which were the basic materials of Sinak are examined by transcribing Jeongganbo into the western staff notation. Secondly, the musical characters of Botaepyung, Jeongdae-eop, and Balsang among Sinak are examined by comparing them with Hyangak and Gochwiak. Sinak was derived from Hyangak and Gochwiak which is Hyangak-like Dangak played by the court Gochwiak band. Thus its characteristics were like 세종 창제 신악t新樂)은 어떤 웅의씬가J 59Hyangak. At that time Chinese words appeared in Chinese music, Dangak, but among his Sinak, Chinese words appeared in songs which were typicaJ Hyangak. Music which belonged to Dangak had been in Pyungjo mode, but in Sinak, music which beJonged to Dangak was aJso in Gyemyeonjo mode. Among Sinak there were new musicaJ styJes which had not been seen at that time. AJso all of Sinak were composed as suites with proJogues and epiJogues. All of these things seem to be creative works by king Sejong. As a resuJt, King Sejong composed Sinak based on Hyangak and Gochwiak,but not just accepted existing music styJes but aJso 떠th his musicaJ creativity created new music styles which surpass the existing music.