A Preliminary Study Of The Music Aesthetic Features Of Monteverdi's Opera "L'Orfeo"

Scholars of the past dynasties generally regarded music as a continuation of the Renaissance,which produced advanced artistic humanistic ideas and outstanding works of art in this new historical environment.The artistic attainments of the baroque period cannot be underestimated in the history of western art.Baroque period by the Renaissance in terms of music aesthetic ideas and the influence of ancient Greek and Roman humanities philosophizing,on the music works with contrast conflict,clever and luxuriant,prominent emotions,imposing manner,etc.From the point of music works,this period was born of the "opera" music drama genre,created a generation of new music style,is full of excitement,the baroque era of dramatic conflicts created brilliant start,for the development of European opera has made a great contribution.The famous Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi(Claudio Moneverdi,1567-1643)is the earliest one of the representative figure of the baroque music art,known as the"father of modern opera",is the founder of the Italian pastoral.At present domestic some books information and foreign literature translation of literature works of Monteverdi introduced the historical figures,mostly from his pastoral sets,and only in the couple of opera writings on analysis and research.American famous music scholar grout,the domestic musician and professor Yu runyang from the central music institute have elaborated on the artistic creation of monteverdi in his own treatise.Through the retrieval of knowledge network in China,the author collected dozens of literatures on the aesthetic characteristics of music in the opera "L 'Orfeo".In addition,through the search on IMSLP(international music score library),the author has also searched the original text of the opera "L 'Orfeo" and searched the early VCD audio resources.Through the reference of all the above works,literatures and materials,the author makes a preliminary analysis on the aesthetic characteristics of music of monteverdi opera.As the first opera produced by Monteverdi,"L 'Orfeo" has great attainments and achievements in the early opera art.In the baroque period background and Monteverdi was put forward by the opera works "L 'Orfeo" research foundation,this article in the "L'Orfeo" music aesthetic characteristics analysis of this a piece of use from the script,the score,and explore the way of video,think about analysis of baroque music aesthetic features in the opera works how to "continuous movement" and the characteristics of"comparative conflict" appeared.