Sound In Box-A Research On Beat Furrer’s H?rtheater FAMA

Beat Furrer(1954-)is a renowned and influential Austrian contemporary composer whose works include instrumental solo,choral works,symphony,musiktheater and so on.He is particularly well known for his musiktheater works,of which Fama,the H?rtheater,is a landmark work,completed in 2004-2005 and commissioned by the Donaueschingen music festival.With Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Fr?ulein Else as the core,which combined with Metamorphoseon of Ovid,De rerum natura of Lucius,La mechanicca of Carlo Emilio Gadda and a paragraph of anonymous words,tells the story of a young woman must borrow a huge money from others because of the debt of her family,but the man,who she asked for,raised an obscene exchange which made her so struggling in the dilemma.This tragic story eventually ends with suicide and collapse.Based on the dwelling place of the goddess Fama in ancient mythology,Furrer and his acoustic architectural team designed and built a sound architecture to meet his needs for sound field and auditory sense,which is also the source of the title of this work.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter mainly introduces the composer and his musiktheater works,and gives a preliminary overview of Fama,meanwhiles also introduced the Situation of the Research both in China and abroad.The second chapter,Box I,starts with the text.At the beginning of the first section,this article states the source of each paragraph in the Libretto and interprets it to some extent if there’s need.The second section focuses on the correlation or confrontation between different texts from different sources in the Libretto.The third chapter,Box II,starts with music as the entry point,the representative techniques in each Scene will be analysed.The fourth chapter,Transfer,with process as the core concept,states the three connective creative ideas in the work,which is,x,transformation and transfer.The fifth chapter,Sound,discusses the internal meaning behind the works,and the three discussions triggered by the creation of Furrer,including the existence of space in entity and concept,the new possibility of the relationship between music and text,and the necessity and future of the definition of musiktheater.