Sijo constitutes a main stream of korean classical lyrics. Although there have been many resarches on its origin, not much has been achieved. The reason is mainly becouse there have not been enough materials left in korea for studying korean classical...
Sijo constitutes a main stream of korean classical lyrics. Although there have been many resarches on its origin, not much has been achieved. The reason is mainly becouse there have not been enough materials left in korea for studying korean classical lyrics.
On the otherhand, japan has many materials for this. among those, there are materials closly related to Sanoyga. We can figure out the features of Sanoyga particularly by studying music books of japan in the late 10th century. We also see the later development of Sanoyga in HwuSanoyga, such as Cenggwaceng or Isanggok.
Based on this development, we can show that lirics and rythms of HwuSanoyga, Which is a later development of Sanoyga, has developed to Sijo, by having been reduced three times in its forms. We claim that it is possible to build up a main branch of korean classical lyrics which originated in Hyangga and developed to Sijo.