This study provides a possibility of analysing rhythmic attributes of contemporary music through contour theory.The early idea of pitch contour occured as early as 1948 in the writing ofcomposers such as Toch and Schoenberg Over a decade later, the work of Charles Seeger, Charles Adams, and Micczyslaw Kollinski set forth the theories of contour analysis But, in the music theory, the concept was formalized by Robcrt Morris Michael Friedmann, and Larry Polansky, Elizabeth Marvin and Robert Morris, in particular, have signiflcantly developed the analytical methodology with which to apply the contour thory.contrast to the previous results of contour music analysis, which focused onpitch element, this analysis presumes that the rhytbms also show similar characterTo prove the hypothesis this thesis re-classified the Elizabeth Marvin and Noel Painenr's rhythmic analysis theories and adjusted the result into Stockhousen's In freundschaft. As a result the number of rtythmic characters that continuously appear in contemporary music were found Also, the possibility of defining similarities of ythmic element through various methods by adjusting the theories including inversion and retrograde, that are similar to set theory, was found.The contour theory will be a good example of analysing rhythms in contemporary music that were believed to be inconsistent in the past.

제1장 연구 목적 및 개요 
제2장 윤곽이론 개괄 
2.1. 윤곽이론에 나타나는 선율개념 
2.2. 윤곽 분절의 상호 관련성 
제3장 선행연구사례 : 마빈의 윤곽이론에 근거한 리듬분석 
제4장 슈톡하우젠의 In Freudschaft에 나타난 리듬분석 
4.1. In Freundschaft의 형식 구성 
4.2. In Freundschaft의 리듬요소 분석 
- 윤곽이론적 접근을 중심으로 
제5장 논의 및 전망 
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