Study On The Characterization And Singing Of The Musical "Candide" And "West Side Story"

Leonard Bernstein is one of the leading Broadway musicals in the United States.His best musical works,"Candide" and "West side story" are all classic works in the musical industry.Among them,"Candide" is regarded as his most famous music comedy,and "West side story" is also called a milestone tragic musical work.This paper makes a comparative study on the characterization and music features of Bernstein's two musicals from the following aspects:The first part is about the life of composer Bernstein and the creation process of the two musicals to be studied in this paper.The second part is to study the music features of the main songs in the musical "Candide",and to explore how music shapes its artistic images by combining the changes of the characters of the main characters and characters.The third part is through the research of the musical "West side story" male leading and supporting the main aria music features,and combining with the character's personality changes music is how to shape the characters of artistic image;The fourth part will be in the category of music creation mode tonality,harmony,rhythm and tempo,music,writing style from four aspects,and will perform technology is divided into two parts of thebel canto and popular singing,music characteristic contrast research for two musical;The fifth part analyzes the social influence brought by the two musicals through the combination of the above research results on music and literature.