한·몽 수교 20년간 음악문화 교류

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine realities in bilateral exchanges of musical culture between Korea and Mongol deep in the past (about 1 thousand years ago) and over last 20 years of friendly relationships between two countries after their bilateral treaty of amity. First, this study took an approach of East Asian musical history to investigating such bilateral exchanges of musical culture as made between Korea and Mongol about 1 thousand years ago. It focused on the musical similarity of “Doraji”, a Korean traditional folk song to “Han Urassan Ssong(汗·乌拉山 颂)”, a Mongol traditional ritual song originated from the ancient days. Here, it was found that one song of a nation has been modified and inherited into two kinds in a stream of historical time. In addition, it was found that “Jingjiri(井即梨, a collective singing and dancing popularized in the Koryeo Dynasty)”, “Jang-gomu(杖鼓舞) or Pyeon-gomu(鞭鼓舞, a dynamic dancing accompanied with percussion like Jang-gu)” and “Dongdong-ga(動動歌, a popularized ballad of Koryeo Dynasty)” were all popularized among peoples in Mongol owing to international exchanges of musical culture between Koryeo and Mongol. However, this study suggested that it would be necessary for follow- up studies to extend their scope of investigation into other instruments like Mongol's Jatag and Korea's Gayageum from the perspective of bilateral musical history for comparison. And these studies will possibly involve the musical scholars in Korea and Mongol. Secondly, this study discussed a history of existing investigations into Mongol traditional music in Korean academic world after bilateral treaty of amity between Korea and Mongol. After the treaty of amity between two countries, it is Kwon Oh-seong that played his leading role in investigating and discovering academic aspects of Mongol traditional music over the first decade, but the author of this paper - as the disciple of Kwon - has focused upon investigating them over the next decade till now. Their early studies focused primarily on introducing general aspects of Mongol traditional music, and their follow-up studies focused mostly on comparison of musical culture between Korea and Mongol. It is expected that many Korean companions, apart from the author of this paper, will be fostered for prosperous development of domestic investigations into Mongol traditional music in the future. As a part of the vision, for instance, many precious Mongol talents are studying or plan to study Mongol traditional music in Korean universities, so it is expected that they will be another possibility of Mongol traditional music studies in Korea. Thirdly, this study focused on major issues in Mongol traditional music activities in Korea after the treaty of amity between two countries. In the early bilateral friendship after the treaty, Mongol traditional musical artists performed their national traditional music at ‘Mongol Cultural Town’ established in Namyangju, Gyeonggi province to introduce it - as a kind of strange and exotic music - to Korean people. And Korean traditional music specialists have been more interested in Asian music since 2000. That is why reputed Mongol traditional music masters have been invited by Korean academic world to propagate the choice of Mongol traditional music into Korea. Then, there have been rapidly increasing interests in Mongol traditional music among Korean people, and the young generation of Mongol traditional music performers has begun to energetically roll out their performance activities in Korea. Moreover, Mongol musicians studying in Korea form their own traditional chamber music groups, and collaborate with Asian traditional musicians in Korea to pursue a leap of musical propagation from Asia into the world. Summing up, the essential source hidden in a vast depth of history is alive in the very foundation of bilateral musical culture between Korea and Mongol. That is why it is hopefully expected that traditional musicologists of Korea and Mongol will play a leading role in more positively promoting collaborative researches into bilateral traditional music.