A Study On The British Opera In Baroque Period Viewed From Purcell "Dido And Aeneas"

In the history of western culture, the baroque is a glaring light of the star, its artistic style reflected in architecture, painting, sculpture, music, philosophy and literature in various areas, presents a strange, magnificent, elegant with rich move feeling and dynamic characteristics of the baroque was the birthplace of one of the most important achievement of the combination of music and drama art form, one of it is the result of the development of music during the Renaissance, the Renaissance is humanism as a measure of things, the drama of the baroque period people are better at using means to express the inner world.From the origin and development of opera, "tong played bass" notation, resize harmony techniques, the establishment of the development of Musical Instruments and genre, is has a great influence on the national music.British Purcell wrote many masques, but the drama of music throughout, the so-called opera forms, only "Dido and Aeneas," this one.The opera is based on the epic of the Roman poet, ji.By graham, features into a script, as his friends cut the qi "of the western shantung, lister put a boarding school and composing music, at this moment, Purcell was thirty years old.Works full of pure and fresh and elegant temperament, reflects the composer’s profound attainments;Melody always show the optimal pa and dramatic expression.This work not only is the representative work of Purcell opera music, but also it should be said that in the 17th century opera in the history of the most important legacy...