Study On The "Music-Drama" Relationship Of Guo Wenjing’s Chamber Opera

Music and drama are the two fundamental elements of opera,and the relationship between music and drama has been at the heart of its reform.Since the twentieth century,contemporary innovations in composition techniques and musical language have given the old,large musical genre of opera a new and diverse appearance,with chamber opera standing out as an important branch of contemporary opera for its small structure and scale,and the pioneering nature of its dramatic music.Whatever the changes that have taken place in modern opera,the centrality of music to dramatic expression has not wavered.This paper selects chamber opera works by the Chinese composer Guo Wenjing as the subject of study.The historical perspective and development of the creation of operas.Through the analysis of the opera text and the structural characteristics of the various musical elements,this study seeks to explain how the composer uses musical techniques to expand the space for dramatic composition in the process of artistic creation,to explore the specific process of generating the relationship between musical forms and drama,to further clarify the influence of music-drama thinking on the composer’s opera composition,to summarise the composer’s technical characteristics,compositional concepts and humanistic connotations,and to analyse Guo Wenjing’s chamber opera in the context of global music.This study will further clarify the influence of music-drama thinking on the composer’s operas,summarise the composer’s compositional concepts and humanistic connotations,and analyse the root causes of Guo Wenjing’s chamber operas’ achievements in the global musical context.This thesis consists of six chapters,Chapter 1 is an introductory section that explains the background significance of the thesis and an overview of the current state of research,Chapter 2 is a theoretical account of the music-drama relationship in opera based on documentary history,and the third is a textual analysis of Guo Wenjing’s chamber operas.Chapter 4 and 5 focus on the form and combination of musical elements such as pitch,structure,rhythm and sound in the four chamber operas,clarifying their connections and characteristics in the works,and then analysing the way in which musicality and drama are integrated in the operas.Chapter 6 focuses on the artistic style and intention of the four chamber opera works,entering the realm of the study of the musical-dramatic style of the works and the composer’s philosophy of opera composition by grasping the collaborative relationship between the elements within the operas and their structured logic.