근대교회음악의 한국화 논의와 시도

Abstract

Study on the Arguments and Attempts of Koreanization in Modern Korean Church MusicMun Ok-BaeIn describing the history of modern Korean church music, the field of Christian hymn must not be excluded for it has been received as the symbol of the western music as well as church music. Indeed, in the process of receiving it, it had influenced a great deal on the western music, and the spreading of view on music and education. The hymn is the most influencing music in popularizing the western music in Korea at the early stage of it. Before the 1920's when there was no place to learn the western music other than school, church is the only place where people from all social classes can learn music and sing.This study is about after the 1920's Korean(national) music & hymn. The method of 'contrafactum' and other methods of adoption Korean traditional music had been tried already in modern period. Kinds of patriotic songs singing the independence of Korea were influenced by the hymn in the aspect of form & content. In addition, at the period of composer absent secularly invented songs adopted the melodies of the hymn. Thus it became the secular songs.One of the biggest harvest in the study on the modern hymn is that lots of hot issues about the church & Korean music, being discussed now, had already been discussed in the process of receiving the hymn in the past. Therefore, this historical study on the modern hymn will support considerable suggestions and standards to phenomena and hot issues of the present music.