The Arousal Of Civilian Consciousness

In the history of Western music culture, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was one of the most important and influential composers of Pre-Classical. This thesis focuses on the study of his opera buffa'La serva padrona'.?As the beginning of a new era of art,'La serva padrona'reflects not only the changes of society and the different cultural orientation among people of all social strata, but also the aesthetic interest and various perceptions of the burgher. This article? firstly analyzes the overall cultural background of opera buffa.? Then it performs the general structure analysis and multi-sides technical characteristics analysis on Pergolesi's masterpiece'La serva padrona', meanwhile illustrate the development process of western opera forms in the past hundred years or so. Last but not least, it tries to find out multifarious social attitudes and cultural connotations of the opera buffa, so that to demonstrate the historical value and the cultural value of'La serva padrona'. ?...