The Comparative Research Of Monteverdi And Gluck’s Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice"

Monteverdi and Gluck are musicians with high status in the history of Europeanmusic, they are for a time and even the whole history of music has a great influence. Theyare all based on the same story about Greek myth created opera “Orfeo ed Euridice”,although the subject matter is the same, but the essence of opera is very different. ThisMonteverdi’s opera can be said to be the first Italian opera seria, the opera set a templatefor later operacreation; The GLuck’s was the opera for the reform of the traditional operaseria and creation. Although lattice baruch in opera creation for monteverdi thoughts onsome of the music of the continuity, but different time background, different genre and thescript structure, different opera creation technique and music style and different charactersof artistic image, etc to the two opera in different connotation. Monteverdi was someaesthetic ideas also apply to the creation of the opera, in his the opera, recitative and aria iscompletely separate,"passion style" also emerge in the opera, the band of the scale, thewhole opera music are very rich and colorful. Luke will he adopted the reform thought ofthe opera, this is a staple of his reform, in his the opera recitative into an orchestraaccompaniment form, can be, and aria with a large number of joined the chorus and theballet, for opera creation had a profound impact. Two operas respectively represents thetwo music thought, through the contrast study of the two operas, can also on the creationconcept of two people and the music characteristic of time have a certain degree ofunderstanding.