• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.572-577
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• 2019

This study aims to classify and examine Changjak Gukak composed by composers who majored in Western music and help the composers with the composition of Changjak Gukak. As a result, it was investigated that Korean traditional musical elements have been used on the basis of the traditional or modern Western composition technique. The traditional composition techniques such as motive, theme, keys, homophony, contrapuntal methods, fugue form, sonata form, baroque concerto form and borrowing of Western art works have been used, and the contemporary composition techniques such as timber melody, a-tonality, irregular meter, poly rhythm and aleatory have been used. In addition, it reflects the Korean expression and identity by applying the Korean traditional instruments, Sigimsae, Jangdan, traditional scale and mode, form and melody.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.567-574
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• 2018

This paper investigates how Korean newly-composed pieces (Changjak Gukak) can be used as good cultural contents to publicize a characteristic and nowness of Korean culture in the era of globalization, focusing on the works of composer Seong-Cheon Lee. LEE Seong-Cheon is a typical Changjak Gukak composer who academically and creatively speculated Korean tradition and identity. In his works, traditional ones, natural-thematic ones, nationalistic ones, and Korean literary-thematic ones are the works which have a possibility to use cultural contents with respect to the Korean traditional culture and identity. This study dealt with the fact that newly-composed pieces based on traditional music can play a significant role in expanding Korean cultural contents between tradition and modern.