Wagner Twilight Of The Gods "interlude Music Study

As viewed from music historiography, integrated with the methodology of analysis of musical composition, author mainly researched one of Wagner's operatic literatures that named Gotterdammerung and its musical interlude by analyzing operatic script and musical leitmotiv in the dissertation, her research works approximately included as follow:1. Summarized three evolutionary processes of opera's musical interlude and illuminated the evolutionary processes of history of opera's musical interlude.2. With analytics of leitmotiv and the evolutionary processes of opera's musical interlude, generalized three dramatic functions of musical interlude of Wagner's Gotterdammerung that weren't embodied in other opera literatures, which included the function of hint, the function of connection and the function of depiction.3. Explored some ideas of Wagner's philosophy that were embodied in Gotterdammerung and its musical interlude, furthermore, studied the effects of opera's musical interlude on Wagner's innovation in the structure of opera. By researching the above content, author draw the conclusion that Wagner is a genius musician who endowed opera's musical interlude with substantial function, in other words, it is Wagner who make opera's musical interlude become an essential part of opera. Wagner's Gotterdammerung that was created in his terminal stages is an embodiment of his revolutionary ideal in his young. Wagner's innovation in the creating of opera not only changes the position of opera's musical interlude, but also had a far-reaching impact on the operatic creating of cotemporary musician. In the modern opera, because of special dramatic function of musical interlude, it had been an important part of opera creating.The significance of dissertation is to offset some insufficiency of research on musical interlude by other scholars to some extend with analytics of leitmotiv, what's more, to make us comprehend further Wagner and his literatures by exploring the practical actions of Wagner's innovation and some ideas of his philosophy, which is helpful to further studies in the future.