Study On The Dramatic Function Of Chorus In The Opera Canal Ballad

The development of the Chinese national opera,"the canal" is the first national grand theatre launched the original national opera,the play to sing as the carrier,with the Beijing-Hangzhou grand canal as the background,by describing the characters in the canal the fate of the fate,shows the canal of good and evil of life and death,righteousness thin yun,eulogizing the pure love and shed has human great love.This paper will discuss from five parts,the introduction part: mainly from the topic background,the research purpose and the method,the current research situation of the personal research ideas and the research innovation and firstly,the characteristics of the opera,and then summarize the arrangement of the 14 songs and the presentation order.Chapter 2: The dramatic function embodied in the chorus in The Canal Ballad,First,combined with the existing academic taxonomy,The 14 choruses are divided into six categories: rendering the dramatic atmosphere,depicting the color of the scene,shaping the characters,revealing the opera theme,expressing the characters’ emotions,and participating in the dramatic conflicts,Secondly,to study the connection between the musical form and the dramatic function,combined with the music examples;Chapter three: The artistic characteristics of the choral drama function in The Canal Ballad,From the aspects of literary character,epic drama character and folk music character,To briefly describe the similarities and differences between operatic chorus and ordinary chorus,Explain the connection with the drama function from the above aspects;Chapter four: Thinking on the chorus function in the national opera from the Canal Ballad,Starting from the embodiment form of the chorus function in the Canal Ballad book,Combining a new perspective in the development of a contemporary operatic chorus,Explain the author’s shallow view of exploring the artistic function of national opera chorus.