• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.714-726
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• 2022

The purpose of this paper is to find out the way of utilizing phrases of Chinese poetry in Manjeongje and its musical characteristics. To this end, the roles of phrases contained in the Pansori words were classified into five patterns: landscape description, strengthening of pleasant emotions, strengthening of sad emotions, wordplay, and combination of various poems. As a result of analysis, phrases quoted in sad mood part consist of slow rhythm of Jinyangjo and Jungmori, and sad melody of Gyemyun-gil and Jingyemyun tone; thus, both the rhythm and melody are expressed in accordance with the mood of poems. On the other hand, the melody in the landscape description parts, and the rhythm in the joyful feeling and wordplay parts showed the characteristics of determining the mood. In addition, when applying the analysis results to the perspective of Pansori composition, it is necessary to discover novel texts, apply to editorials, and study musical implementation suitable for the original mood in order to create more artistic Pansori.