Song and dance opera appeared at the end of the North and South Dynasties. Since the North and South Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, it has been developed on the basis of the art of song and dance and the hundred operas of the previous generations, with a storyline, a few role-playing, singing and dancing, or both singing and orchestral instrumental accompaniment of a kind of embryonic opera.
The name of song and dance opera was first mentioned in the Tang Dynasty in Du You's "General Dictionary", Volume 146, which belongs to "loose music". The repertoire and content of the play are recorded in several works of the Tang Dynasty. For later generations, song and dance opera is the precursor of Song miscellaneous opera, Jin Yuan Ben and Song Nan Opera, and it is the cornerstone of Chinese opera art towards maturity, and it occupies an important position in the history of opera and music.
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Artistic features:
1, the role of one, or two, or three, has seen the later generation of the "two small drama", "three small drama" prototype. The role of one or two or three people has already seen the later "two small theater", "three small theater" prototype.
2. The locations where "Big Noodle" and "Treading Lady" were produced and circulated help to explore the historical development of opera music.
3. From the Northern Qi Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, female roles were either played by men or by women, and there were variations, but not a single pattern.
4, the plot is contradictory, or Zhuang, or joy, or sadness, has seen the end of the various types of later operas.
5. The concept of "opera" is beginning to be established, and has been generalized from vaudeville or technical performances, transitioning to the latter-day opera.