Folk Opera in the Typological System of the New Opera of China

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Liu Sung

Abstract

The foundation of the genre of new Chinese opera (the getszuy)
was laid in the 1940s. Along with the emergence of new types
of genres, the necessity arose for a scholarly cognition of this
diversity. We are witnessing the formation of the typologies of
the getszuy, an overview of which is offered in this article. In
the provided typologies the genre of the folk opera stands apart
as an original, independent genre of Chinese musical theater of
the second half of the 20th century, organically connecting folk
music, traditional Chinese drama and European opera. The author
highlights the characteristic features of folk opera: plots from the
lives of common people, the use of dramaturgy of spoken theater,
a great role of the plasticity of gesture and dance, a conditional
authorship of the music, a homophonic musical texture, a
folk vocal manner, an applied role of the orchestra and use of
nationalinstruments.

Keywords: music theater of China, new Chinese opera,
getszuy, Chinese folk opera

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How to Cite
Sung, L. (2015). Folk Opera in the Typological System of the New Opera of China. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (1), 12–15. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.1.18.012-015
Section
Musical Culture of the Peoples of the World
Author Biography

Liu Sung, Nizhni-Novgorod State M. I. Glinka Conservatory (Academy)

Post-graduate student at the Music History Department

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