Discuss The Development Of New Chinese Opera 'The White-haired Lady' And It's Pursuit Of The Nationalization Style

From the view of new Chinese opera The White-haired Lady's composing characteristics, the author was questing the historical miniature of new Chinese opera and tried to find out something meaningful to the National opera's development in the 21^st century. Based on the literature and researches home and abroad and in the ways of collecting materials, comparison, and analysis of sheet music, this thesis contributes to the study of the development background of new Chinese opera in the first half of the twentieth century: its creativity track records in this period; the historical origin of Chinese National opera; The major characteristic of Chinese National opera and effects; the original play and composing style of 'The White -haired Lady' studied from its composing background.Chinese national opera stems from traditional Chinese opera while Chinese new opera begins from the twentieth century. After its about hundred-year development, Chinese national opera has been getting mature either in its content or its forms. With the coming of new century, Chinese national opera encounters both opportunity and challenge. How to further develop national opera has cause general concern of Chinese musicians. The successful mode of Chinese national opera enlightens us a lot .The success of Chinese national opera gives us many hints. I hope I would explore the innovation in the style of national music through the new opera 《 The White -haired Lady》, which will give us some experiences about the 21^st century Chinese national operas.