Analysis Of Music Creation In The Musical "Into The Forest"

Stephen Sondheim (March 22, 1930 -) is a famous American musical composer, "concept musical" founder, created a large number of musical works, and is mostly a person do lyrics creation. "Into the Woods" is the work of sondheim, whose creative ideas have had a profound impact on Broadway in the late 1980s, and the music is particularly good.This article mainly from the historical Angle, through the American Broadway theatre history background of the late 20th century, lead to the social environment, the concept musical to the musical "walk in the forest" for music creation analysis. Abroad for sondheim and concept musical research has begun, and the domestic is still in its infancy, it has to do with his historical status and the impact of the creation of the concept musical development obviously unequal.At present, our country's musical still is give priority to in order to play a musical, telling the audience a complete story, overall is "start,development,climax, and end of the order. But the concept musical creators to express the concept and purpose on the prominent position, which is the center of all events unfold, but it is not the same as completely give up the plot development logic. Sondheim is considered to be synonymous with concept musical, ahead of his creative concept, experimental colour, is still in its beginning stage in China have great enlightening significance of musical creation. The relevance of the music structure, such as the use of theme throughout and development, is the area that the musical" s music will need to learn.The composer gave the musical a touching artistic touch by means of the musical features of the musical. This article focuses on the relationship between music and drama through the analysis of the musical"Into the Woods" from music.The article is divided into five chapters:First chapter for sondheim' s growth environment, and the concept of the origin and concept of musicals, briefly introduces the development history, the author and briefly describes the social background of works.The second chapter is the focus of this paper, through the analysis of the four themes pitch materials, development, and the correlation and application of drama, summarize the main aria, subject to the link between the music theme throughout.The third chapter through the analysis of tonality, aria and harmony in the drama performance characteristics to describe the characteristics of sound effects, from the melody characteristic of transverse and longitudinal analyses overall harmony features two dimensions.The fourth chapter is the formal structure of macro and micro analysis,classification is made for the music section, using the theory of structural capacity of the play was analyzed, and the correlation of the music structure of the whole structure characteristics were summarized.The fifth chapter through the analysis of the instruments, this paper introduces the "simplification" band correlation of orchestration and drama performance, in the second section analyzes the vocal tone, the relationship between forms and drama performance.