<춘면곡>의 노랫말과 선율 구조

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the historical formation process of the lyrics and melody of the current twelve kasa (歌詞) Ch'unmyŏn'gok and to identify the repetitive melody structure within the paragraph structure of the current lyrics. Ch'unmyŏn'gok was created around the 18th century in Kangjin area and was sung as a song with long lyrics (known as kasa) from the beginning. After the mid-18th century, the song was extended to the audience throughout Hanyang and Sŏdo. Then, after the mid-19th century, it was transformed into a song with shorter lyrics, becoming established as one of the twelve kasa, continuing to the present day. This study was initiated from the question that it is difficult to sing songs with long lyrics such as Ch'unmyŏn'gok according to the irregular number of changdans and melodies as the delivery of the lyrics is important. Therefore, the melodic structure of the current Ch'unmyŏn'gok was analyzed in units of lyrics length. In this study, anthologies and pieces of music after the 18th century were reviewed, a time when the lyrics of Ch'unmyŏn'gok began to appear, where the formation process of the lyrics and melodies of Ch'unmyŏn'gok was analyzed. The analysis found that the current Ch'unmyŏn'gok has a musical structure that repeats chapters 1-2, 3, and 4 in chapters 5, 6, and 8, except for the melody in chapter 7, which corresponds to the wŏlgokcho (月曲調) of Samjukkŭmbo (三竹琴譜, 1841). In addition, the reason behind the differing chapter units and the lyric line units of Ch'unmyŏn'gok in between the current and old scores were identified, namely the omission or addition of lyrics in the process of changing the lyrics.