Tchaikovsky's Reformation To Ballet Music

"Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Nutcracker" were all well known to everyone. Each of them was most popular ballet. The Nutcracker was almost the most welcome one and is played in the famous Oper on each Christmas. Such high box office of the three ballets owed to the high-level dance technology. But more importantly, it was attributed to the popular, fluent and elegant musicial style of Tchaikovsky. The thesis aimed at the three ballet music of Tchaikovsky and had its ballet music reformation as the head thread and then clarified Tchaikovsky's contribution to ballet music by the anylysis of musical drama structure, musical content, musical language and ballet musical genre etc. Thus the history degree of ballet music was further affirmed.The whole thesis was written in five chapters. The first chapter gave attention to the reason of ballet music reformation. The predecessors' research made the important foundation. While the time chance and the history development of the ballet musical genre created the important time and history condition to Tchaikovsky's reformation. The abundant meaning of Tchaikovsky's ballet music was analyzed in the second chapter. It is Tchaikovsky's key reformation production to ballet music. And then the thesis discussed Tchaikovsky's inditement source of ballet music with abundant connotation. Tchaikovsky's effect of general viewpoint to ballet music inditement was mostly stressed here.Chapter 3-5 dissertated Tchaikovsky's reformation ways. Tchaikovsky's ballet music has unattached drama structure. The music development works in drama content tightly. And meanwhile, the drama structure power formed with leading motive's transfixion and well layouted tonality enhances the integrality of the musical drama structure ulteriorly. Otherwise, Tchaikovsky's ballet music has abandent drama content. For example, Music covered character depiction, scene description and representation of drama conflict etc. While on the ballet music language writing, ballet music presented symphonic posture in envidence by integrated application of symphonic development of the theme, tonality, orchestration, complex rhythm and polyphony etc. The reformation to ballet musical genre mainly incarnated upgrating the expressive force. Among them, the implement on action ballet music was one shining point on Tchaikovsky's ballet music genre reformation.In the end, Tchaikovsky's reformation ways to ballet music were further summarized in the thesis' conclusion. And the reformation essential was abstracted based on them and the important purport was also illustrated. Thus, Tchaikovsky's valuation on ballet music was unambiguous.