The Research Of Mauricio Kagel’s Instrumental Theater:Match

Mauricio Kagel is one of the representatives of avant-garde music in 20th century.His’instrumental theater’ is a new but influential form which is based on instruments.This article will mainly about an analysis of Kagel’s Match which is to expound the relationship between music and theater in "instrumental theater" and its characteristics which related to technique and ideology by successively exploring the three elements of post-drama theater which including ’text’,space and’characters’,the musicalization of theater movements which is about the dramatic acts and dramatic development of instruments,and meaning and interpretation which including the duplicity of instrument and theater,the chance brought by anti-technique and anti-conception,surrealism and meaningless,social structure which is reflected by power struggle.A conclusion will be given that instrumental theater is a form based on instruments to present a new relationship between music and theater by combining musicality and body,blending absolute music and the space of theater,and extending musical expression to visual and tactile sense.