Musical "oklahoma" Theater And Music Analysis

"Oklahoma!"is an outstanding work which is written by "the gold combination" Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein in Broadway.As the beginning of American modern musical,it has the more innovation and breakthrough in the ideological nature, the artistry, the entertainment, as well as the commercial operation,and has obtained the huge achievement.It is an important and classical work. Its success has provided the factor which may profit from for twentieth-century even for a long time after it,and has the important influence on American musical development.It has brought the golden age of American musical's magnificent development.The musical "Oklahoma" is recomposed according to Riggs's play:Green grow the lilacs.It selects the realism theme which draws close to the populace live,and has unfolded a group of pioneers's plain, happy and unrestrained life and love story.The play displays the character's characteristic and the innermost feelings in it by simple and succinct dramatic poem,and has manifested the profound play connotation. Wonderful and plain music take coordinates the development of plot as the main purpose,and serves completely for the play.The status of dances in the musical is enhanced first,and it fused highly with music and the play,and impelled the development of the plot.In "Oklahoma!",essential factors involved the music,the play,the dance,the art of stage and the clothing unify perfectly,and penetrate throughout by a kind of unified conception.Thus it enable the musical to be more dramatic.From then on,the American musical got rid of the old pattern such as the operette and music comedy,and has manifested a kind of typical American style and American spirit. The American musical made great progress. This article has made more thorough and a careful analysis on the play and the music of "Oklahoma!" by divided into four chapters.Through several aspects involved the style of the play, the characteristic of the musical creation as well as the highly fuses of the play and the music,and has unfolded artistic achievement and social value of "Oklahoma!".First chapter mainly makes a general discussion about the musical,including the explanation of musical,the origin and development of American musical and the introduction of the author and the creating general situation.The second chapter makes an analysis on the play by several aspects involved the plot,the characteristic and innermost feelings of the people,the play connotation of the musical as well as the style of dramatic poem,and summarized the main characteristic and the flare spot of the creation in the musical.Third chapter is the analysis on the music creation of "Oklahoma".Separately from the analysis on the creating technique including the melody, the harmony,the organizational structure and the rhythm as well as the concrete aria,the article summarizes the more typical musical creating technique and the characteristic of style.Fourth chapter starts with the combination of the music and the dramatic poem, the creation of songs and play, and discusses the highly fusion of the play and the music in the musical.This is also a characteristic of the musical.