At the beginning of the prelude to the ballet, the oboe played a soft tune to lead to the clues of the story. This is a variation of the swan theme, which roughly outlines the touching and sad picture of a girl who has been turned into a swan by witchcraft.
The most familiar part of the whole song is the music at the end of the first act. This scene is a grand ball to celebrate the prince's adult ceremony. Music is mainly composed of all kinds of gorgeous, clear and passionate dance music. At the end of the first act, a flock of swans appeared in the night sky, which is the first time that the theme of swans appeared in music. It is full of gentle beauty and sadness, accompanied by the vibrato of harp and violin, played by oboe and string successively.
Hungarian dance is a Hungarian folk dance of Childash. The first half of the music relieves sadness, such as preparation before dancing, and the second half has a strong sense of rhythm, which shows the rudeness of the dancers and is a fanatical dance music.
Spanish Dance Music is full of Spanish national flavor, accompanied by Spanish castanets, which emphasizes the national characteristics of music. The first half of the music is full of passion and warm atmosphere, while the second half is full of songs and melodies.
Dance of Naples is a very famous Italian style dance music. The whole dance music is mainly played by trumpet. The music is lively, the first half is smooth, the second half is getting faster and faster, and the atmosphere is getting warmer and warmer. This is a Tarantella folk dance music.
Dance of Four Little Swan is also one of the most popular dances in this dance drama. The music is relaxed and lively, and the rhythm is clean and neat. It depicts the scene of cygnet swimming by the lake, which is simple and touching and full of pastoral poetry.
The second act of Swan Lake: Adagio duet delicately expresses the process that Aogueta, the white swan, gradually changes from fear and vigilance to trust and trust the prince, and then falls in love, even falls in love. Aogueta's solo dance highlights her tragic color. The more elegant and exquisite her dance is, the more lonely and moving it is. (You can also learn more about ballet by combining the textbook Death of a Swan 152) is a transliteration of French ballet, which originated in Italy and was formed in France. Classical ballet has a set of strict procedures and norms, especially the application of tiptoe shoes and tiptoe dancing skills, which is obviously different from other dance varieties.
Ballet is called the jewel in the crown of western dance art. It has complex structural forms and specific technical requirements, and ballet duets, solo dances and group dances all have fixed formal structures. The duet is the core dance of classical ballet, which is mostly used to express the love between the hero and heroine or the confrontation between the pros and cons. It is characterized by graceful posture and inner feelings. Generally speaking, it can be divided into "appearance" and "adagio", that is, the actors and actresses use support and lifts to express the performance of lyric dance, followed by "variation", that is, the solo dance of the actors and actresses expresses their personality and heart, and then the "ending" of the actors and actresses is interspersed with performances, and finally ends with a dance. Women's stand-on-tiptoe dance is the soul of ballet, and its solo dance requires skillful skills, such as light jumping and dazzling rotation, as well as pleasant and decorative feet hitting, in order to set off the main characters and render the environment and atmosphere.
Traditional ballet technique is a strict system. The most basic aesthetic feature is the pursuit of opening, stretching and straightness, including five basic postures of feet, three basic dances, such as stretching legs, shooting, opening, bending, lifting, kicking and drawing circles, as well as various dances of jumping, rotating and turning, and various dance steps and connecting movements. By arranging and combining them according to specific structural techniques, we can create an infectious image of dance art.
/kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker raised ballet music to the height of symphonic music. In his dance drama, music is an important part closely related to the content of the work and the stage action. Tchaikovsky improved the expressive force of ballet music, and deepened the drama of his works through the development of symphony and characterization. In Swan Lake, he expressed poetic mood with romantic and lyrical brushstrokes, and portrayed the hero's beautiful and pure character and faithful love. It also depicts the contradictions and conflicts of hostile forces with majestic dramatic power. So Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is still a model of ballet music. Swan Lake, based on fairy tales, describes the love between Princess Aogueta and Prince Siegfried. They are turned into swans by the demon Lott Bart, and finally the power of love overcomes magic, and Aogueta is restored to human beings.
The play is divided into four acts, including 29 divertimentos. The second act describes the meeting and love between Siegfried and Aogueta in Swan Lake, which consists of five parts. The basic theme of the first divertimento is the swan theme, which runs through the whole play and plays a leading motive role. The sad and moving melody is blown out by the oboe accompanied by the harp, and then turned into the horn; Finally, the two octaves separated by woodwind instruments and stringed instruments beat together and gradually disappeared. When the band played this suite, it was a wide night on the stage. A flock of swans are floating on the lake, and the leader is wearing a corolla.
The second suite is a dance scene. The first piece of music is played by stringed instruments, and the prince and his friend Beno appear in hunting clothes. When the strong band ensemble and sharp woodwind melody appeared alternately, the prince saw the swan and wanted to raise his bow to shoot. The swan quickly hid. The swan princess cat hopped and landed on the slope behind the stage. The so-called cat jump is the action of curling legs and jumping sideways. Followed by a love dance. The so-called plot dance is a ballet scene that uses dance and mime to express feelings and dramatic plots. The oboe played a lyrical tune, and Princess Swan asked the prince why he shot her. Then, the music became Allegro, and Princess Swan confided to the prince that she was a princess and her name was Aogueta. She and her companions were enchanted by the evil magician Lott Bartesch. Lott Bart turned into a swan during the day, and only returned to human form at night. Lott Bart disguised himself as an owl. Keep an eye on them. This piece of music is ojetta's monologue. When Princess Swan told the prince about her life, Lott Bart appeared in front of them with the strong harmony of the whole band and wind instruments, threatening the prince. The prince raised his bow to shoot, but the swan princess stopped him. She comforted the panicked prince and confided her love to him. The second divertimento didn't end, followed by the third divertimento.
The third paragraph is another dance scene. The procession of swans appeared on the stage, and Aogueta's companions appeared. They found the prince and gathered to protect ojeta. Ojeta told them: He is kind, so go. Accompanied by Aogueta's dance movements, it is a solo of oboe. The prince threw away his bow, declared his love to ogita, and told her that he wanted to kill Lotbart and set her free. The princess told him sadly that it was impossible unless someone who was ready to die for her swore to love her forever. Lotbal will be destroyed in order to break witchcraft. The prince gladly swore an oath and invited Aogueta to the dance the next night, when he would choose her as his bride. But she said she couldn't get rid of witchcraft until midnight to go to the dance, and then the dance was over. She also warned the prince that Lotbart would break his oath with tricks. Aogueta made her companions dance to please the prince. At this time, the oboe theme I just heard changed to flute solo. This slow dance was performed by Aogueta with the support of the vault of the prince and his companions.
The next suite is Swan Dance, which consists of six dances and a Rondo. The first swan dance was copied twice, and the whole suite formed the structure of A-B-A-C-D-A, and finally it was a lively ending. Swan dance is a waltz performed by all dancers. The music is fresh, cheerful and smooth, written in three stages with a single theme. The second song of Swan Dance is Odetta's solo dance. Violin and flute played melodious melodies successively. In the second stage, the speed turned faster and reached a climax soon. The whole song is written in two stages. The third song of Swan Dance is a slightly shortened swan dance, which is the reappearance of the first song.
The fourth song is a dance by four little swans. The music was light and lively, and the four cygnets danced in unison, including stamping their feet and walking lightly. The so-called kicking is that your feet hit each other several times after jumping. The so-called light walking is the action that the front heel touches the rear toe. These movements and the rotation of the head vividly show the image of Little Swan. The fifth swan dance is the story dance of Aogueta and the prince. This is three lyric scenes, and the introduction at the beginning is the colorful movement of the harp; The first paragraph is a violin solo accompanied by a harp; In the middle section, the woodwind instruments alternate with quick sentences, and the theme melody is unfolded with the accompaniment of stringed instruments. The reproduction part is echoed by cello solo and violin solo, and combined into a duet. The music of this duet was written in duet. It turned out to be a love duet in Tchaikovsky's early opera Water God, and the composer borrowed Swan Lake. The sixth song of Swan Dance is the whole dance. Music is the second reappearance of waltz, and then it is cheerful.
At the end of the activity, Aogueta, with the support of her partners, made beautiful dances such as spinning on one toe and spreading her wings in the wind, which put an end to the colorful swan dance.
The swan dance stopped, because it was close to the moment when Aogueta and her companions were going to become swans, and the evil Lott Bart appeared again. The final music of the second act reproduces the swan theme of the oboe solo at the beginning of the second act. The prince said goodbye to dear ojetta. Under the threat of Lott Bart, Ogetta slowly left the prince's arms. At dawn, a flock of swans flew quietly over the lake.
Swan theme is not only the theme at the beginning and end of the second act, but also the basic theme of the whole ballet; The last music of the first act, the second act and the fourth act is based on this theme. Tchaikovsky's theme deformation technique. Use music to reveal the development of drama plot and the theme of justice defeating evil. In the first and second acts, the swan theme is a sad little theme, which describes the tragic fate of Aogueta and his companions. In the final music of the fourth act, this tragic theme first changed its speed and became agitated; Then it changed from four beats to two broad beats, which were played by the band and became solemn carols; Finally it changed from minor to major. Slow down. Become a magnificent triumph, show loyal love, defeat evil forces and win. This basic theme runs through the development and is closely related to his symphony and opera music.