Gounod Opera "faust" Theater And Music Features Of The Study

Charles Francois Gounod (1818—1893) is one of the great French opera composers in the nineteenth century. In his operas he insisted the tenet that thoughts of roles should be expressed by the music that was plain and truehearted. He created the kind of opera named"lyric opera", which broke through the"grand opera"in France in the period of 1830s and pointed out the direction of the French opera.The opera"Faust"is one piece of representative work in all of Gounod's operas, the plot in which about a tragic love story between Faust and Margarita was from parts of Goethe's drama"Faust". There are three aspects at least which incarnates the characteristic of the drama in the opera"Faust". The first is the dramatis personae with vivid characters, the second is the rich and variational scene, and the third is the realistic technique of creation . There are two aspects at least which incarnates the characteristic of the music in the opera"Faust". The first is the graceful and lyric melody, the second is the enrich harmony. There are two aspecte which reflects the perfect combine between the drama and music in the opera"Faust". The first is the exquisite character and psychology of the dramatis personae, and the second is the hint of the music to the drama plot. It is because of the perfect combine between the drama and music that this opera becomes a piece of typical work in the lyric operas and that is acted in the opera stages all over the world in a long time.This thesis"The dramatist and musical characters in the opera"Faust"is based on the study on composer Gounod and the creation of"Faust". The dramatist and musical characters and the perfect combine between music and drama are the purports. The thesis is divided into three parts: the preface, four chapters and the conclusion. In the preface it is explained that what in this thesis is expounded and what kinds of study about the opera there are in Chinese and in the other area of the world. The first chapter is a summary about Gounod and his"Faust", which is the typical work in lyric operas. In the second chapter analysis on drama, the character and figures of the roles in the opera is made, and the characteristic of the plot ,the creation of opera and framework is put together. In the third chapter the music in the opera is studied, and the characteristics are put together on the base of particular analysis on typical passage of aria chorus ensemble. In the last chapter, perfect combine between drama and music is presented by study on Faust's character and psychology,and it is discussed that music implied the plot. And the conclusion is a whole comment of the opera and it's musical characteristics.