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The Opera "Oedipus" Artistic Achievement

Posted on:2017-04-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J YaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330491456601Subject:School of music and dance
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The Greek myth of Oedipus is a mass are more familiar with the characters, because he is extremely tragic destiny and its with the power of a general, its shape into a rare beauty in the tragedy characters. For thousands of years, it has aroused the sympathy of many famous artists (composers, writers and artists), so it will be a new adaptation and the creation of two degrees. Stravinsky's creation of it is in at the beginning of the 20th century, he will "Oedipus Rex" creation into the form of operatic oratorio, let this tragedy from literature to the stage, for it to show the form presented in front of an audience, through opera actor of stage performance, more realistic performance out of Oedipus the full of the tragic fate of the hero image and psychological characteristics. A typical representative of "Oedipus the king" is the new classical music style.This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter:the analysis of the opera's plot and the author of the opera.The second chapter:the analysis of the opera in the analysis of the protagonist role and their own arias. The first section:music played an important role in the opera. The second section:characters analysis, lists the play of several main characters and their aria to carry on the analysis, the opera characters between the duet aria analysis.The third chapter:see the development and tragedy from the drama sing "Oedipus rex. Including the first section:oratorio and other development. The second section: analysis of tragedy here will relate to the development situation of tragedy, and opera Oedipus the king view on tragedy and destiny view is how to embody.The fourth chapter:the relationship between opera and literature from the "Oedipus Rex". Including the first section:the difference between the opera and the literature; the second section:the similarities between the two.The fifth chapter:from "Oedipus Rex" neo classical "birth and development. The first section, the definition of the new classical and its development status and representative figures. In section second, "Oedipus the king" in the "new classical" is how to reflect.This paper from the above contents of research and analysis of the opera "Oedipus rex.
Keywords/Search Tags:Opera, oratorio, "Oedipus the king", Stravinsky, neoclassical
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