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Borodin's Create Style From "Prince Igor"

Posted on:2012-03-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H JiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330341450413Subject:Music
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"Igor Anabasis"is a very important Russian literature history books, which is creation according to the 12th century ancient historical epic poem. Original material's national and historical characteristic is very much in line with the Borodin's. So he modified the script to the opera himself. It takes him eighteen years and did not complete the play word until the composers's death also. The opera is an only creation of opera works of the composers in the world. It represents Borodin's the highest achievement. Now this opera has undergone several hundred years. It occupies an important position in Russian opera history and even the entire western musical history and has high value for study and appreciation.This article start with its composer's background, in which the first part describes the culture, political background of the nineteenth-century Russian, and composer's llife and creative path of the composer. At the same time ,it describe why will create a full reality, people, nationality of the opera. The second part from the original"Igor Anabasis"paper introduces this literary work and the composer to modify the scipt, focusing on comparing the original with the composer revised the script similarities and differences. The third and the fourth pary from both the dramatic and creative characteristic to describe the music features of the opera"Prince Igor". In the third part, due to the research of main characters and their leading motivation, which generalize the outlines of dramatic structure, and the play reveals the relationship between music and drama. The fourth part is built on the basis of the third part's analysis, which proposed two major characteristics of Bordin's creation: Contrast and Unity , portrait-style creation features. Part five summarizes the Borodin creation aesthetics of realism and epic characteristics. In the epilogue , get the opera to the larger environment of history an that time to explore its historical and its impact.The ultimate goal of this paper is to through"Prince Igor"of the study and research, to grasp of the composer Borodin's music style better, and get a deper understanding to the composer.
Keywords/Search Tags:Borodin, opera, Prince Igor, dramatic, creative characteristic, aesthetics characteristic
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