We have to reconsider that Byungchang(竝唱) is the inevitable
product of the human beings as people started making musical
instruments and playing. So we can say that Byungchang includes not
only Kayagum but also all the genre of playing music and s...
We have to reconsider that Byungchang(竝唱) is the inevitable
product of the human beings as people started making musical
instruments and playing. So we can say that Byungchang includes not
only Kayagum but also all the genre of playing music and singing. And
the history of Kayagum Byungchang can be the one of Byungchang.
Though Taesuk Oh(吳太石) and Guihee Park(朴貴姬), who are the
two momentous people of this study, occupy an important position in
the history of korean music, there aren't any studies about them. So I
thought that we had to have a whole understanding of their music
before we started studying about them. Here are the conclusions of the
music of Taesuk Oh and his pupil, Guihee Park. First, Most of the music in the record of Taesuk Oh are quite
different from the ones that are handed down to us and played by us
in present.
Second, Guihee Park played the music in her own way a little
different from the way of playing of Taesuk Oh. She quite often added
her creations in playing.
Third, In case of Danga(短歌), there is Woojogil as the original form
in the music of Taesuk Oh but there is a vocal sound of Pyungjogil
known as the way of Sukhwaje(石花制) in the music of Guihee Park.
Fourth, In the music of Taesuk Oh, Kayageum functions as an
accompaniment except in its solo part but in the music of Guihee Park,
Kayagum plays a horizontal part with sound, not a vertical part as an
accompaniment, by the beat and touch at an angle.
Last, Taesuk Oh uses powerful melodies of Pansori but Guihee Park
has the melody structure softer than the one of Taesuk Oh.
We can't tell which one is superior but the music of the teacher,
Taesuk Oh, has a remarkable disposition of Pansori and the music of
Guihee Park has a very elaborate and organized constitution. Taesuk Oh
and Guihee Park can be estimated as two valuable people giving
development from the early Kayagum Byungchang to what of the
present time in the history of Korean music.
Besides, the investigation of this method will be the most necessary
way for the organization, right transmission and another creation of
Kayagum Byungchang and it should be continued in the days ahead.