Tradition and Modern: The Musical Development of Jingju in Taiwan by A Case Study of the National Guoguang Opera Company

• Main Authors: Ling, Ming-Yan, 林明燕
• Other Authors: 蔡宗德
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87173369561343621958

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 民族音樂學研究所 === 99 === So far, the developmental history of Jing Ju Opera has sustained for two hundred years, after beginning "the competition of Hua Ya" in the Qing Dynasty during the seventeenth century. Among the three hundred kinds of drama, Jing Ju Opera was beloved by the royal family and the literati and spread far and widely. After " Emblem classes " running into Beijing for two hundred years and the vigorous development in Taiwan more than half a century, the contemporary content of Jing Ju opera performances in Taiwan didn’t comply with the original traditional stylization. Spying from the stage, the traditional Jing Ju opera was simple form of performance-based freehand, but evolved into joining shot in realistic stage props and special scene composing opera realism of modern performances gradually. This trend is also the major type of now professional Jing Ju opera troupe of Taiwan exhibitions. Along with the modern composing opera booming, however, it is worried about the declining development of traditional Jing Ju opera. How to combine the traditional and the modern to strike a balance is the main common problem of the development of now the Jing Ju opera in Taiwan. In this thesis, according to the Taiwan's Jing Ju opera music change from traditional to modern forms of opera music, we discussed not only the original expansion on the traditional orchestra, but the traditional Big Three back-civil and military instruments of music, extended to large Chinese and Western orchestra. It fully demonstrated the differentiation from the composing modern Jing Ju Opera performances and the traditional, and a combination of different musical styles, based on the vocal or the traditional backstage music. This main topic of this thesis is focused on the gradual development into the main performances in today's Taiwan professional Jing Ju opera troupes. It is because the form of traditional Jing Ju Opera is strict. Otherwise, traditional to modern performances in the range of changing, it is no fixed pattern to follow. So, we chose the one of the existing professional Jing Ju Opera Troupe in Taiwan, The National Guoguang Opera Company, as our research model. This troupe both performed the traditional Jing Ju Opera and regularly annual modern composing performances very well. We aimed the current modern composing performances exhibited by this troupe, and discussed the artistic value of the integration between the traditional and the modern in present development of Jing Ju opera music in Taiwan.