Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing OperaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 01 հնվ, 1991 թ. - 342 էջ Behind its elaborate costumes and make-up, its pantomime and acrobatics, Beijing opera is above all a world created in sound - so much so that attending a performance in China is referred to as listening to theatre, and performing itself is termed singing theatre, rather than acting. |
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III | 53 |
25 | 67 |
33 | 80 |
++++ | 89 |
44 | 111 |
47 | 120 |
53 | 128 |
MUSICAL | 131 |
ROLESPECIFIC VOCAL CHARACTERISTICS | 213 |
THE ORCHESTRA | 225 |
THE INTERRELATION OF COMPONENTS | 263 |
59 | 275 |
Notes | 283 |
List of Written Characters | 299 |
Sources | 309 |
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Common terms and phrases
accented beat action-strings aesthetic aural performance basic melodic contour Beijing opera Beijing opera performance Beijing opera plays breath central vowel characters Cheng Yanqiu Chinese language chou closing line composed couplet dance-acting dispersed-meter elevated speech emotional empty-words erhu erhuang Example expression fast-meter female xipi fixed-melodies flowing-water-meter gaobozi heightened speech initial consonant instrumental connectives Jiangsu jing jinghu jinghu player kunqu large aria lead-in-meter major male Mandarin Chinese martial Mei Lanfang melodic orchestra melodic-line melodic-passages melodic-phrase metrical types modal system mode nasal older sheng opening line patterns percussive instruments percussive orchestra percussive passages pihuang musical system pitch range primary-meter punctuation rhyme categories role type scene shaking-meter Silang singing sipingdiao slow-meter Small aria sound special pronunciations specific speech-tone stage performers standard Mandarin structure sung suona techniques tempo third dou timbre two-six-meter vocal words written-characters Wu Junda xipi and erhuang Xipi Small song xiqu Xun Huisheng young sheng Yu Tangchun yueqin Zhongguo