Kunqu Opera "peony Pavilion" Music

The Kunqu opera has a glorious history, and affects profoundly. It has the unique and deep esthetics tradition and the special verve as Eastern style. It has the eternal charm though so many changes and vicissitudes for several hundreds years.Compared with Western Chamber and The Dream of Red Mansion, Peony Pavilion is up to a summit in the Chinese romanticism literature tradition. Their wonderful love legends performed by the elegant and beautiful Kunqu opera, a perfect couple, flourish on the stage for more than 400 years.In 2001, the Kunqu opera is listed first as"the human oral and the non-material cultural heritage representative works"by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In 2004, Mr. Bai Xianyong wrote the youth version Peony Pavilion, who comes from Taiwan. And then the artists from mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan join this youth version which played on the stage throughout the whole country. It brings joy and life as youth to the old art.The paper takes the Kunqu opera Peony Pavilion as a breakthrough point, does the deeper music analysis and music main part research. The full text divides into three chapters. First chapter reviews the formation and development of the Kunqu opera. Second chapter is the artistic analysis of Peony Pavilion, which is the key point. First, it introduces the synopsis of biography of Tang Xianzu, and analyses the creation idea of Peony Pavilion. It also analyses the scenario, outline of character image and principal conflict analysis. It selects parts of Visited A Park, Startled Awake Out of A Dream and Pick Up the Picture·Called the Picture this three Chengtao Aria, which analyses and research on music main part. It concludes the characteristic of the SouthKun Style on traditional opera at last. Third chapter is the summary of the artistic achievement and influence on the youth version Peony Pavilion. The hope can has certain being of help to the Kunqu opera preservation and the development.