京剧和西方音乐剧对比.doc

Introduction Peking Opera is the quintessence of Chinese culture, is one of the important national opera popular in China. So far, Peking Opera has 200 years history. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790), the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju opera and Luantan in Beijings thearetical circle of the time. Transferred from the emblem, the Han have been transferred to the evolution of opera, has experienced countless times between changes. Similar with the development of the Peking opera, Western musical is also the reflection of the lives of the people, namely in the form of song and dance to play story. The initially by the comic opera and light opera or operetta) evolved early called musical comedy, later referred to as the musical is the 19th century originated in the late British pattern vectors, by dialogue and singing combination performance form of drama. Drama, music, dance and musical fusion is equal to a furnace, humorous appealand comedy. In this essay, it first introduces the history of Peking Opera and the Western musical, followed by table comparison in performances and music characteristics of difference, then elaborately explain the difference from the aspects of performance and musical feature. Finally, the paper summarizes the similarities and differences of Peking Opera and the Western musical. Contrast table Peking opera Western musical performance The virtual nature of the stage performance Real effect Procedural nature Flexibility Simple Large-scale production Direct communication Indirect communication Musical features A variety of accents, plate can be used repeatedly Creating music according to the script and the composers style Jinghu, moonguitar, Beijing urheen, instrument category is single musical instruments, timbre, volume and tone is more abundant Classical musical instrument Modern Acoustics The singing is mainly Pihuang Music di