The Research Of The Musical Characteristics For "the Phantom Of The Opera"

The musical opera"THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"is an attracting classical opera in music, drama and stage and so on aspects and is also one of the masterpieces of British famous composer Weber. Since its birth, it has had wide and far-reaching effects in the world."THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA"landed in Shanghai at the end of 2004. And its record of continually public performance over 100 also proves its art charming not to be stopped.The thesis standing on the music text of the music opera gives a deep analysis and research from the musical characteristics of"The Phantom of the Opera". The main body of this thesis is made up of three charters: the first gives the writing background of"The Phantom of the Opera", the writing style and the scenario and then gives a necessary and brief analysis on the main characters. Meanwhile this also have an indispensable effect on preparing the research on the musical features; the second is the key of this thesis, mainly researching and analyzing The Phantom of the Opera's musical features from four aspects including the musical style features, the musical rhythm features, the musical shape of the characters and singing characteristic; the features of"dramatic poetry". The third chapter is the consideration and revelation from The Phantom of the Opera, i.e., musical opera being successful has to own moving story content, amazing acoustic and visual effects and elaborate practical business operation.