On The Musical West Side Story, Dramatic And Musical Literature And Its Implications

Exploring the dramaticism and musicality of the book and lyrics creation of Musical, and the highly integrated and organically merged of dramaticism and musicality is not only a new research perspective in Musical field, but also in accord with the current Chinese Musical creation and the realistic demands of the Musical industrial development.The book and lyrics creation of Broadway classic Musical——West side story, provides an example of highly integrated and organically merged of dramaticism and musicality, these two kinds of basic attributes of book and lyrics creation. This thesis aimed at three aspects of book and lyrics creation in West side story includes dramaticism and musicality and the combination of both, in order to present the two basic attributes and the organic combination of various forms, techniques, and artistic functions. Also hope to provide some benefits for the book and lyrics creation of Chinese Musical on the basis of summing up the successful experience of this work.