유가(儒家)의 음(音)사유체계에서 나타나는여음(餘音)담론의 단서

Abstract

This article is intended to survey the sound(音) being discussed in East Asian Confucianism(儒 家) and the special thinking system of its metaphorical expression. In order to approach this more effectively, it is going to compare and discuss the unique features revealed in the ideas of Confucianism(儒家) with Western modern musical theories, ultimately aiming to reveal the basis of the existence of ambience(餘音), which is one of the unique discussions in the oriental music culture. In fact, the ambience(餘音) has always been inherent in the music and has been performed across the ages and in all countries of the world. As is well known, the relationship between the cosmology and the sound(音) in the Confucianism(儒家) is regarded as a tool for complementing moral roles and realistic human tensions complementarily. The theory of the generation of the sound(音) in a view of nature of the unity of heaven and man(天人合一) connects to the original purpose of the habit of human nature theory, referring to the relationship between the tone and note(聲音) and the human’s inherent mind(心) and shedding light on human nature. In here, it is worth noting that the notion of the remaining sound(遺音) which is metaphor for the hidden nature of the sound that remains separately is derived from such a process. The remaining sound(遺音) refers to the privacy of individuals indirectly. It contains a free will of personalities strongly acted in th at the source of the sound itself is defined as the sound that is originally triggered and resonated in the human mind. The ambience(餘音) is the unrestricted movement of the sound that is enjoyed and played properly and appropriately within one’s own privacy at this time. In addition, in the point of view of reception aesthetics, it has a cognitive function that combines subtle feelings in the subconscious inherent to each individual. Since the ambience(餘音) is still in an unclear state ontologically and epistemologically in the rationalism and the technical civilization, it has been an object that was easy to avoid being mentioned or to be excluded. However, we should study the identity of the ambience(餘音) implied in the ideas of Confucianism(儒家) that is very influential among Eastern traditional thinking ways.