The Artistic Features Of Faust In Gounod’s Opera

Charles Francois Gounod was one of the most characteristic composers in France in the nineteenth century and an important figure in the French opera school.Gounod’s lyric opera has beautiful melody and rich musical expressions,highlighting the vivid description of the characters and the deep inner depiction.It is used as a masterpiece of lyric opera.Faust shows Gounod’s exploration of the musical language of lyric operas and the use of traditions.While composing skills,he also created a romantic and lyrical musical language.His elegant and refined artistic features affect future generations.The thesis "The Artistic Features of Faust in Gounod’s Opera" starts from the development process and the French opera Faust theme to Faust’s structure of arts,scene and scenario and writing music for the character of the main line,is analyzed by the macro to the micro.With historical musicology as the basic research method,combined with work analysis,it explores the influence of western culture on composers,explores the characteristics of Gounod’s music language,and extends to the artistic characteristics of composers.The full text is divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction,which is divided into two aspects: the significance of the topic and the analysis of the current research situation.The significance of the topic selection includes the theoretical significance and practical value of this research work;the research status analysis mainly organizes and analyzes the domestic and foreign current status of the research field,and designs the research focus and methods on this basis.The first chapter gives a general overview of the development of French opera and Faust theme.The first section summarizes the development of French opera,and explores the reasons and characteristics of the 19 th century lyric opera;the second section collects Faust-themed literary and artistic works,highlighting the important significance of Gounod’s opera Faust.The second chapter mainly discusses the opera’s structure of arts,scene and scenario,and analyzes the design and arrangement of the entire opera from a macro perspective.The first section of the opera overview involves the creation,performance,and commentary of the opera;The second section analyzes the opera structure from four aspects: the overall structure,the structure of arts,scene and the important methods of the opera structure;the third section of the musical structure analysis is based on the three major elements of constructing the opera’s musical structure-genre and character,Motivation runs through and analyzes the development of opera music and the design of the tonality of each act.The third chapter analyzes the artistic technique of character depiction in the opera,discusses Gounod’s unique understanding of each role and the individual music writing characteristics from a micro perspective,analyzes the representative solo repetition passages,and summarizes the three main characters contradictions and conflicts between multiple character images and characters.The final conclusion is based on the summary content of the above three chapters,and summarizes the artistic characteristics of Gounod’s opera Faust as a whole.