In this article, I attempted to examine from the outside the vibrato employed in the northwest folksong ‘Sushimga.’ There are generally three main types of vibrato employed in northwestern folksong: moving above and below the main note, rising from below the main note, and coming from above the main note. The characteristic vibrato style in ‘Sushimga’ is that of the second type described above, rising from below the main note. If you take the series of notes in the line ‘Sug-im’, you can see (below) that from above the fundamental tone of the melody the notes then dip beneath this tone to create the vibrato: gb’ – eb’ –bb – ab A raise in the central melodic series by two degrees is demonstrated by the following: ab’ – f’ – c’ – bb Namely, you can see from the description above the typical melodic series in the ujo mode family. While the article delves closely into an examination of the vibrato techniques used specifically in ‘Sushimga,’ I also explores the difficulty of both describing and prescribing performance techniques using conventional notation methods. With the collaborative use of standard notation and computer graphs, I contends that the vibrato techniques employed in a performance of ‘Sushimga’ can best be described. Likewise, similar use of notation and graphs can communicate proper performance techniques to those learning the folksong via notation. Such an examination of the vibrato in ‘Sushimga’ can communicate the centrality of vibrato to the performance of this northwestern folksong.
서울대학교 동양음악연구소 [The Asian Music Research Institute]
설립연도
1976
분야
예술체육>음악학
소개
본 연구소는 한국 최초의 동양음악 연구 기관으로서 한국 전통음악과 동아시아, 나아가 세계의 민속음악과 관련된 자료의 수집 및 연구, 교육, 출판 등의 사업을 수행함을 그 목적으로 한다. 또한 국제적으로 동양음악을 연구하고 있는 연구소 및 음악학자들과의 활발한 교류와 협력을 통해 궁극적으로 세계 유수 기관으로서 그 위상을 높이고자 한다.