[KS] Use of tones and rhyme scheme in hansi poetry

[Andrew]

Dear Brother Anthony,

Thank-you kindly for the response and these invaluable papers of Richard
Rutt.  Even at a cursory glance, particularly of *The Chinese Learning and
Pleasures of a Country Scholar*, they look to contain much of immediate
interest to my initial questions, and plenty beside.

I'm currently based in Helsinki.  For the past tens years I've managed to
visit Korea annually, often for extended periods, though not yet in 2012.
 Though not a practitioner I've been quite involved with pansori: one of
the teachers, Master Song Sun-seop (송순섭 선생님), often makes a point of the
need to distinguish the differing intonation between the *mal* 말 of
"speech" and "horse".  He laments how Koreans have forgotten this
distinction; though not directly related to hanja character tones perhaps
it still intimates the former influence of tones on performance of Korean
verse.  Some passages of pansori are so dense with hanja and literary
quotations they almost become a form of sung hansi!

The "traditional jang style" you mention is intriguing.  Do you mean
*chang* (唱)
as in "song," (used also for the sung passages of pansori)?  If this were
an authentic method of hansi recitation, perhaps it is what I am looking
for.

sincerely
Andrew Logie


On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>wrote:

> If Andrew were in Seoul I would suggest he contact the poet (retired Korea
> U English lit professor) Kim Jong-gil who continues with others to compose
> Classical Chinese Hansi in traditional style every month. If he feels in
> the mood (liquor helps) he might even recite some poems in the traditional
> jang (song) style. He began his studies in an Andong Confucian academy and
> could explain everything in English, too . . .
>
> Failing that, there might be something useful in Richard Rutt's
>  Traditional Korean Poetry Criticism. RASKB Transactions XLVII:105-143.
> available at
>   http://www.raskb.com/transactions/VOL47/vol047-6.docx
>
> I wonder if there is something useful in Rutt's long study  The Chinese
> Learning and Pleasures of a Country Scholar, an account of Traditional
> Chinese Studies in Rural Korea. Transactions   XXXVI:1-100.
> http://www.raskb.com/transactions/VOL36/Vol036-1.docx
>
> Richard Rutt includes (I believe) some tunes for reciting Sijo in his
> lengthy study  An Introduction to the Sijo?A Form of Short Korean Poem.
> Transactions  XXXIV:1-88.
> http://www.raskb.com/transactions/VOL34/Vol034-1.docx
>
> Br Anthony
> Sogang U / Dankook U / RASKB
>
>
>
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