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The Tenor Style Of Donizetti's Opera Creation And It's Contributions To Bel Canto

Posted on:2007-05-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ChaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185963842Subject:Music
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19th century is just the time when comic opera and grand opera rise in Europe. In this period, there has emerged a large quantity of outstanding opera composers and first-class music works. Meanwhile, bel canto the singing method which rely on the growing of the opera creation gets a great development, and there has another prosperity period after the"Gold time of bel canto "which initiated by castrated singer. Especially tenors get a real development in this period as main role performer in opera. Among them, Italian opera writer Donizetti has made some outstanding contributions to the development of the bel canto by his large amount of achievements.However, the research visions of the academic circles mostly focus on those realistic opera composers such as Verdi, Puccini, Wagnar and so on. And they just pay ordinary attention of music historiography to Donizetti's opera. They ignore that Donizetti's opera creation has made a great contribution to the development of bel canto, especially on tenor.This article analyses creation style and singing skill of tenor in the Donizetti's opera, therefore summarizes the contribution to the development of bel canto which is made by Donizetti's opera. The whole article is divided into three parts altogether. In the first part, the author gives a brief account of Donizetti's life and introduces the general situation of his creation, which mainly combines the politics and cultural form of Italy in 19th century. In the second part, the author sums up the artistic style and characteristic of Donizetti's opera creation by introducing and analyzing the roles of tenor and those representative arias. In the third part, the author summarizes the contribution of Donizetti's opera creation to the bel canto, by analyzing the...
Keywords/Search Tags:Donizetti, Bel canto, Opera, Artistic style, Singing skill
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