A Historical Study Of Modern Shanghai Peking Opera Music (1842-1919)

Shanghai is an important base of Peking Opera inheritance and development, Shanghai.Beijing, Wuhan was be called the spread of Beijing Opera "three terminal". Shanghai’s unique political, economic and cultural environment for the Peking Opera art in the prosperity of Shanghai provides not only the special objective conditions, also for the development of Beijing Opera art in the national scope has played a huge role in promoting. If we look back from the perspective of music historiography is a complicated and colorful history, you will see in modern Shanghai is a famous Beijing Opera stage based on numerous plays, numerous theaters, and numerous fans. Most importantly, with the spread of new culture and new ideas in modern China, in this age of changing along the Huangpu river, multicultural coexistence and competition gives birth to the unique characteristics of “The Shanghai school Peking Opera” art. However, in China music historiography research horizon, for the theory of modern Shanghai school Peking Opera to conduct a comprehensive system of research achievement is still rare, so the author thinks that the research of the Shanghai school Peking Opera has important academic value.This article taking the music of “The Shanghai school Peking Opera” as the research object, to the development history of Shanghai Peking Opera as the breakthrough point, use of music history, music morphology, comparative musicology, culturology, and other research methods, The Shanghai school Peking Opera music of multidimensional analysis and argumentation, exposition of the comparison of the cognition of The Shanghai school Peking Opera system comprehensive academic point of view.