채동선의 삶과 음악 = Chae-Dong Sun's Life and Music

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Chae-Dong Sun(1901-1953) was one of the first-generation Korean composers of the 20th century. Though he started and was active thereafter as a violinist. he has been remembered mainly by his compositions(chamber music, choral music, cantatas, monophonic patriotic songs, art songs, transcription and editing of Korean traditional music), especially, art songs.
But his works had been officially banned to be performed from 1950 because of the political reasons concerning a poet whose poems were adopted as the texts of his many songs. In 1960s, some of his songs began to be published with texts changed to other poems. But it was only after 1988 when the ban was lifted his songs with original texts finally came out in public. Due to this circumstances, researches on him and analysis of his works began recently, thus remain rare at present.
Though Chae-Dong Sun was well acquainted with Western music and studied in universities in Japan and Germany, he was eager to shape the modernized Korean music. And his achievement on this with his songs are significant in that he accommodated national trait and affection into the frame of Western music.
His intention can clearly be seen most of all in his choice of texts. majority(8/12) of his texts are those which is regarded as the first modern Korean poems with those characteristics. And Chae-Dong Sun experimented especially with the musical form in accordance with that new type of poems. 7/12 is in through-composed form, and also most of songs have formal sophistication reminding Debussy.
The role of melody and rhythm also include some new aspects. That is, besides various characteristics in relation to text expression(stepwise motion, leap, melisma, consistent rhythmic pattern for maintaining the mood, etc.), they also accomodate free rhyme of the texts exquisitely by recitative-like flow, fermata, and so on.
They say Chae-Dong Sun's harmony is least original among his treatment of musical elements in that it is in the strict frame of Western Classical music. But this aspect might also have contributed th the appeal of his songs to various classes of Korean people.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 시작하면서
• Ⅱ. 채동선의 삶
• Ⅲ. 시기별 작품분류
• Ⅳ. 장르별 음악적 특징
• Ⅴ. 맺으면서