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Sense and Sensibility with Dual Perspective Analysis of Handel’s Oratorio "Messiah"

Author: LongFang
Tutor: LingXianChu
School: Hunan Normal University
Course: Musicology
Keywords: rational and emotional rhetoric Act Aesthetics Messiah
CLC: J605
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract

Rational thinking is the tradition of Western culture and art gene,which throughout the West and theoretical study of music,the Baroque period to Cartesian rationalism, represented by the ideological emphasis on the judge’s reasoning as a measure of abstract thinking activities of all existing things standards,that the world should put things on a rational scale to be measured,only confirmed for the rational is the real thing,and only after rational knowledge can be tested for truth into.In this trend of thought under the influence of Baroque music in the aesthetic concepts of rational tendencies manifested in:I believe the music and the feelings of people with mutual relations between the corresponding symbols,each emotion can be through a particular form of music.Therefore,this period of emotional aesthetics deeply branded imprint of the times,reflected in the performance of the composer’s works for:to enrich the connotation of emotion embedded in the form of a high degree of rational structure,so that the emotional experience invisible to the visible reflected in the music form.The idea of a high degree of rational and emotional content of their expression of the perfect combination,which orchestrated a variety of technical means are often for the expression of a specific need exists.In such a creative idea,under the guidance of“Rhetoric of Music”came into being,it is rational thinking and emotional aesthetic of combining the specific product is generated from the ancient principle of operation of a number of eloquent rhetoric principle,the purpose of to help the composer in the creation of a better expression of emotion characteristic of law through the use of rhetoric, emotion work can be“unequivocal”expression,and thus narrow the gap between the creation and appreciation of the distance between.This paper discusses the Baroque foothold is characterized by rational humanism and aesthetic feelings during this period, as well as the combination of music embodied in the principle: Music rhetorical method.Baroque period through the analysis of the characteristics of the times and the mainstream music aesthetic to explore the refraction work in the composer’s music connotation;Sense and Sensibility by using the dual perspective of interpretation of Handel’s works,try to clarify this approach works for understanding the advantages of,as well as in the dual perspective of interpretation of works inspired by historical and multi-dimensional perspective to study the history of music thinking.ChapterⅡis the focus of this article chapter,this article on the life of Handel their experience and educational background did not make a thorough description of the background is as a result of interpretation of Baroque rationalism and the philosophy of the aesthetic characteristics of the music,in the interpretation of Frederick del’s oratorio“Messiah”,the creative process of this paper,two aspects of the work discusses the characteristics of the Handel Oratorio creation,further from the historical position,performance and evolution,analysis of the three works of the“Messiah”conducted Analysis,which analyzes the work as the main part of this chapter,focusing on creative interpretation of the composer behind the aesthetic characteristics of the principle of the spectrum through the concrete surface analysis,excavation works embodied in law at the time of the typical use of rhetoric.

Sense and Sensibility with Dual Perspective Analysis of Handel’s Oratorio "Messiah"

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